"Concert" was one of the last books published by a Jew in Germany
before Hitler came to power. The work is autobiographical, a
collection of essays and vignettes that both entertain and engage
the reader at a deeper level. Like Robert Schumann's piano suites,
each in itself a perfect concert, Else Lasker-Schuler's "Concert"
contains pieces that vary greatly in theme, mood, length, and
complexity, yet they are unified by the medium and by the distinct
and lyrical personality of the artist. Lasker-Schuler is able to
transform and transcend the everyday scenery and events that are
her points of departure. She makes magical an unmagical corner of
Germany, discerns the miraculous in the neglected and ignored, and
finds wisdom and comfort in prayer and cosmic perspective.
Lasker-Schuler was attuned to the world and in some ways
uncannily prophetic. It may come as a surprise to some readers that
Concert, published in German in 1932, contains a warning about the
climatic dangers of interfering 'with the merry green leaf people
who give us ozone and the breath of life.' With her respect for the
natural environment and her emphasis on spiritual development
rather than the materialistic, Lasker-Schuler's voice remains
relevant to our own times. A recent German edition of her complete
works has proven immensely popular.
Prior to the Third Reich, Lasker-Schuler had a well-established
reputation in her native Germany as a poet, dramatist, and prose
writer, as well as for her work in the visual arts, and she
received the Kleist Prize for Literature. As a Jew, though, she was
increasingly threatened by 'people wearing swastikas, ' and was
forced to flee the country in 1933, never to return. She died in
exile in Palestine in 1945.
This is the first English translation of any of Lasker-Schuler's
prose: a challenging task because she includes sections in dialect,
poems, numerous neologisms, witty alterations of German sayings,
and structural emulations with phonetic echoes of famous German art
songs.
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