Else Lasker-Schüler

First edition of Das Peter Hille-Buch by Else Lasker-Schüler, published by Axel Juncker Verlag, 1906; cover image by Franz Stassen

Das Peter Hille-Buch in the 1919 re-issue with a cover image by Else Lasker-Schüler, as part of the 1919-20 edition of her complete works by Paul Cassirer

Else Lasker-Schüler’s mentor, Peter Hille

Else Lasker-Schüler’s image of her mentor, Peter Hille

First edition of Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads, published by Axel Juncker Verlag, 1907

Title page of the first edition of Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads, published by Axel Juncker Verlag, 1907, with an illustration by Max Fröhlich

Cover of the 1919 edition with a drawing by the author and the slighly amended title of Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad, issued as part of the 1919-20 edition of her complete works by Paul Cassirer

Else Lasker-Schüler in 1907, the year that Die Nächte Tino von Bagdads was published

Else Lasker-Schüler’s close companion Senna Hoy (born Johannes Holzmann), dedicatee of The Nights of Tino of Baghdad

Else Lasker-Schüler’s son Paul (1899-1927), fictionalised as ‘Pull’ in The Peter Hille Book and The Nights of Tino of Baghdad

The first edition of Der Prinz von Theben, with a cover illustration by Else Lasker-Schüler, published in 1914 by Verlag der weißen Bücher

Der Prinz von Theben in the 1920 re-issue with a cover image by Else Lasker-Schüler, as part of the 1919-20 edition of her complete works by Paul Cassirer

Else Lasker-Schüler in her persona of Prince of Thebes

Else Lasker-Schüler: Prince Jussuf’s Morning Music (1923)

Else Lasker-Schüler: Abigail’s Speech above Thebes (1914)

Else Lasker-Schüler: Prince Jussuf of Thebes (c. 1928)

Else Lasker-Schüler

A promotional card for the Zuntz coffee company around the beginning of the 20th century, produced by the Dresdner Kunstanstalt, depicting Morgiana from ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, part of One Thousand and One Nights.