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Most readily identified with the Expressionist movement, German-Jewish writer and artist Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945) was a major figure of early modernism. She claimed dual citizenship of Wilhelmine Germany and an invented poetic dominion in which she identified as 'Tino' or the 'Prince of Thebes' and refigured her bohemian associates as compatriots. Lasker-Schuler's creativity was an uninterrupted continuum of verse, prose, drama, art, performance, costume, correspondence and everyday life. The Weimar Republic offered a more sympathetic setting for her bold work and singular character, and in 1932 she won the country's top literary prize. But once the Nazis took power she was forced to flee, living in fraught circumstances in Zurich before settling in Jerusalem, where she died in 1945. While Else Lasker-Schuler's timeless poetry continues to win new devotees in English translation, her prose works are less known outside her native Germany.

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