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Article: Eve's song: observations on the poetry of Else Lasker-Schuler.
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- June 22, 1998
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"I persist, forgotten-in the poem"
Her Life
Born in Elberfeld in 1869 (or 1876, according to the poet), Else Schuler was educated mostly by private tutors. Losing her brother Paul in 1882 and her mother in 1890 shattered her protected world and prepared the ground for her poems' preoccupation with death.
In 1894 she married Dr. Berthold Lasker and moved to Berlin. The marriage broke up after five years, a son of mysterious paternity was born shortly after, and a second marriage (1901-1911) to art critic George Levin followed. With the dissolution of that alliance the poet found herself in financial difficulties that would haunt her to the end. ...