Else Lasker Student Society

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Else Lasker Student Society
(ELSG)
Logo of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft
legal form registered association
founding 1990
Seat Wuppertal
purpose Literature maintenance and a contemporary culture of remembrance
Chair Hajo Jahn
Members 1400
Website www.else-lasker-schueler-gesellschaft.de

The Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft (ELSG) endeavors to create a contemporary culture of remembrance; it is a politically active literary society that is committed to the poet Else Lasker-Schüler , her literary and graphic work.

The company was founded in 1990 in Wuppertal by Hajo Jahn . The first chairman was Friedhelm Beiner. The second chairman and honorary managing director is the former WDR journalist Hajo Jahn. He has also been the company's first chairman since 1997.

The seat is the Herzogstr. 42 in Wuppertal ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Else Lasker-Schüler lived in this house before moving to Berlin. The company's activities aim to establish a center for persecuted arts. The way to get there is to hold events such as the Else Lasker Student Forum (every 1 to 2 years), exhibitions, readings, lectures, concerts, discussions or the appearance of contemporary witnesses in schools. Some forums also took place in Wroclaw , Prague , Zurich , Jerusalem or Tel Aviv , which were closely related to the recent German past.

purpose

The aim of the society is to maintain the literary and artistic work of the writer, who was born in Elberfeld (now the Wuppertal district) in 1869 , persecuted during the Nazi era and who died in Israel in 1945, and to keep it alive as an important contribution to German-Jewish culture. The fate of Else Lasker-Schüler is exemplary for the persecution of artists and their works. The society supports research on Else Lasker-Schüler as well as the publication of a critical complete edition and sees itself as a "political" literary association whose special concern is the "Else Lasker-Schüler Center for the Persecuted Arts" as a national institution against the "universality of forgetting" is. Realized in the Kunstmuseum Solingen with the Gerhard Schneider collection with fine art and the exile literature “ Jürgen Serke Collection ” with original drawings by Else Lasker-Schüler, which were confiscated from the Berlin National Galleries in 1937 as “degenerate”, and with original letters from Thomas Man at the German Exile Papers in Santiago de Chile. The virtual center was created on the Internet with www.exil-archiv.de and the educational platform www.exil-club.de, which has been “frozen” due to lack of money, which means that it can no longer be expanded.

Else Lasker Schüler Poetry Prize

In 1994 the Else Lasker Schüler Poetry Prize was awarded to Thomas Kling for the first time . The second winner in 1996 was Friederike Mayröcker . After a long break, the society had not found any more sponsors, the poetry prize was awarded again in 2016: The winner of the prize endowed with 3000 euros was Safiye Can ; the award ceremony took place on November 11, 2016. The Poetry Project Berlin was awarded the prize in 2018 .

Members

The number of members is around 1400 (as of October 2009). Prominent members were or are the Nobel Prize winners Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller as well as Corinna Harfouch , Hannelore Hoger and Nina Hoger , Sarah Kirsch , Reiner Kunze , Hans Joachim Schädlich , Jürgen Fuchs , Otto Sander , Erich Loest , Angela Winkler , Federal President Johannes Rau , Rita Süssmuth or the members of the Bundestag Siegmund Ehrmann , Peter Hintze , Manfred Zöllmer , Jürgen Hardt and Claudia Roth . Arno Wüstenhöfer was one of the founding members.

Honorary members

Paul Avraham Alsberg , Hans Sahl , Adolf Burger , George Dreyfus , born in Elberfeld and living in Australia , Ingrid Bachér and Ulla Hahn were made honorary members.

Forums

Overview of the previous Else-Lasker-Schüler forums

  • 1993 - I .: "The Blue Jaguar" (Wuppertal) Poets' Forum with the Czechoslovak parliamentary president and author Milan Uhde
  • 1994 - II .: “Exile without end” (Wuppertal / Solingen) for the 60th anniversary of the PEN center for German-speaking authors abroad , the “Exil- PEN ”, London, patron: Prime Minister Johannes Rau
  • 1995 - III .: "The Occident in the Orient - The Orient in the Occident" (Wuppertal / Solingen), patrons: Ezer Weizmann , President of Israel, and Ignatz Bubis , Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
  • 1996 - IV .: "Women in the Hebrew Country" (Wuppertal / Solingen), Patron: Annemarie Renger , former President of the Bundestag D. - in partnership with the Working Group Women in Exile in the Society for Exile Research
  • 1997 - V .: "Escape to Freedom: Shanghai" (Wuppertal / Solingen), Patron: W. Michael Blumenthal , former US Minister of Finance. D., today director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
  • 1998 - VI .: “At home in exile - poets who remained in the GDR without authorization” (Wuppertal / Solingen), patron: Fritz Pleitgen , WDR director
  • 1999 - VII .: “Last Enclave of Poetry - Poetry, Music and Painting in Theresienstadt” (Wuppertal / Solingen), Patron: Václav Havel , President of the Czech Republic
  • 2000 - VIII .: “... then the clock of the century circled back” (Wuppertal / Solingen), patron: Paul Spiegel , President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
  • 2001 - IX .: “The Journey to Jerusalem” (Israel), Patron: Shimon Peres , Foreign Minister of Israel; first ELS forum abroad
  • 2002 - X .: "My blue piano" (Wuppertal / Solingen), patron: Mary Robinson , UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • 2003 - XI .: “Goodness is immortal” (Breslau / Wrocław / Poland), patron: Władysław Bartoszewski ; 2. Foreign forum
  • 2004 - XII .: “Sometimes I long for Prague” (Czech Republic), patron: Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany a. D .; 3rd Foreign Forum
  • 2006 - XIII .: "I've gilded every word" (Zurich), patron: Moritz Leuenberger , Federal President of Switzerland; 4. Foreign forum
  • 2008 - XIV .: “I'm looking for a city everywhere” (Wuppertal / Solingen), Patron: Your Excellency Yoram Ben-Zeev , Ambassador of Israel in Germany
  • 2009 - XV .: "The Tramp from Kurfürstendamm" (Berlin), patron Klaus Wowereit , Governing Mayor of Berlin
  • 2009 - XVI .: “20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In exile - places of memories: home and emigration in the light of the fall of the Berlin Wall ”(Catania / Italy), in“ agreement ”with Giorgio Napolitano , President of Italy; 5th Forum abroad
  • 2010 - XVII .: “My country of Hebrews. The European Roots of Israel “(Tel Aviv / Israel), Patron: Shimon Peres , President of Israel; 6. Foreign forum
  • 2012 - XVIII .: “What are you doing in… Vienna?” (Vienna / Austria), Patron: Aviv Shir-On , Ambassador of the State of Israel in Austria; 7th Foreign Forum
  • 2013 - VIV .: "Blown Tones" (Solingen / Wuppertal), in cooperation with the Solingen Art Museum , patron: Konstantin Wecker
  • 2014 - XX .: "The blue rider has fallen" (Wuppertal / Solingen), patrons: Hannelore Kraft , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Aurélie Filippetti , Minister of Education for France
  • 2015 - XXI .: “So that people don't become refugees” (Wuppertal), on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft, patroness Jeanine Meerapfel , President of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Partner: Cap Anamur / German emergency doctors
  • 2017 -XXII .: "... would like to go back to Switzerland, just like a bird in flight", patron: Manuele Bertoli, State Councilor of Ticino

Other Projects

Another international project of the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft eV is the Transitraum Else project initiated by the artist duo Astronautenkost (Claudia Gahrke and Andreas Schäfer ) in 2014 , in which international artists present poems by Else Lasker-Schüler. Among the 50 artists involved so far are Bob Balaban , Iris Berben , Liv Lisa Fries , Elfriede Jelinek , Günter Lamprecht (also patron), Sigalit Landau and Tomi Ungerer . Actors such as Inger Nilsson , Lainie Kazan , the Jewish Grand Dame of Hollywood, and John Nettles have taken part in previous live stations such as Stockholm, Zurich, New York, Los Angeles, London and Dublin . The project took place in several Goethe Institutes , but also in Cabaret Voltaire and in the Lion-Feuchtwanger Villa Aurora .

archive

With the Exile Archive, the virtual center of the persecuted arts and intellectuals, society preserves the memory of the artists, journalists and scientists who were persecuted and expelled from 1933 onwards.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de: Safiye Can receives Else Lasker Schüler Poetry Prize. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Lasker-Schüler Prize for Afghan Refugees , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, July 23, 2017, accessed on July 23, 2017

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