Posts Tagged: Else Lasker-Schüler
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!
Dear King of Holland
Else Lasker-Schüler returns to the Brandenburg Gate. Unfortunately, she’s not alone …
Dear King of Holland
Else Lasker-Schüler returns to the Brandenburg Gate. Unfortunately, she’s not alone …
Else Lasker-Schüler, 1920
The writer and artist appears at the Bauhaus in Weimar, 100 years ago today
Else Lasker-Schüler, 1920
The writer and artist appears at the Bauhaus in Weimar, 100 years ago today
Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
“We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric.” Which is nice.
Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
“We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric.” Which is nice.
The Son of Lîlame
The latest Rixdorf Editions title is out, but you can’t buy it. Ever. But you can get it for free!
The Son of Lîlame
The latest Rixdorf Editions title is out, but you can’t buy it. Ever. But you can get it for free!
Places: Nollendorfplatz
The birth of arthouse cinema, 100 years ago today
Dress-down Friday: Else Lasker-Schüler
Five stages in the sartorial self-actualisation of writer Else Lasker-Schüler as she moves through Germany, Switzerland and Palestine.
Dress-down Friday: Else Lasker-Schüler
Five stages in the sartorial self-actualisation of writer Else Lasker-Schüler as she moves through Germany, Switzerland and Palestine.
Else Lasker-Schüler | Theben
Lasker-Schüler’s images present a romanticised Near East where stars of David nestle harmoniously with crescent moons.
Else Lasker-Schüler | Theben
Lasker-Schüler’s images present a romanticised Near East where stars of David nestle harmoniously with crescent moons.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 4
Else was shocked when management barred her entry one day, on the grounds that she didn’t consume enough. “Is a poet who consumes a lot even a poet?” she fumed. And so as the First World War approached, Café des Westens fell out of favour with the avant-garde.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 4
Else was shocked when management barred her entry one day, on the grounds that she didn’t consume enough. “Is a poet who consumes a lot even a poet?” she fumed. And so as the First World War approached, Café des Westens fell out of favour with the avant-garde.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.
Strange Flowers guide to Berlin: part 3
The retro-revellers at Bohème Sauvage are responding to a particular idea of Weimar Berlin, a fragile, frantic golden age of sexual license and social mobility, lewd and doomed. The undying allure of the Weimar Berlin evoked by Isherwood’s books ensures that the reality of the city in that era can never be divorced from its fictional echoes.
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