Brooks Haxton: Else Lasker-Schüler (January 2007)

Brooks Haxton offers an introduction to the life and poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler, a German Jewish poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Exploring how Romanticism influenced Lasker-Schüler’s work, as well as how her poetry can be understood as stepping out of Romanticism into “the modern era,” Haxton locates Lasker-Schüler in her cultural and political context, discusses her vision, and offers new translations of a number of her poems.