Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Schüler dressed as the Prince of Thebes

Else Lasker-Schüler

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

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

Cover of the second edition, issued by Paul Cassirer in 1919 under the slighly amended title of Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad, with a drawing by the author

‘The Son of Lîlame’ from the 1919 edition of The Nights of Tino of Baghdad (Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad, Paul Cassirer, Berlin)

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.

Else Lasker-Schüler’s mentor Peter Hille (1854-1904), who gave her the name ‘Tino’

Else Lasker-Schüler in 1907, the year Tino was first published

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