Thebes (Lasker student)
Thebes is a book by Else Lasker-Schüler , it was written around 1923.
The main character and the center of attention is Prince Yusuf of Thebes . The unique combination of poems and pictures in this book, the text-picture cycle of the double-gifted artist, creates a new one out of ten of her poems in facsimile handwriting - including "An old Tibetan carpet" and "My people" - with drawings specially created by her , fascinating whole, at the center of which is her poetic alter ego, Prince Yusuf of Thebes. She colored each copy by hand, so each is unique . A new edition of the volume was published in 2002.
bibliography
- Else Lasker-Schüler: Thebes. Poems and lithographs. Cross-section publishing house, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1923, DNB 580516687 .
- Else Lasker-Schüler: Thebes. Poems and pictures. ed. and with an afterword by Ricarda Dick. Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-633-54177-2 .