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Else Lasker-Schüler’s Modernist Poetry & Translations by Brooks Haxton: A Reading

Time: Jan. 30, 2019, 3:45 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Location: 202 Physics Building

Brooks Haxton (Syracuse University - English)
Karina von Tippelskirch (Syracuse University - Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics)

A century ago, Else Lasker-Schüler was among the most prominent of the German Expressionist poets. She also had a notoriously Bohemian lifestyle. She was nonetheless honored by Germany’s highest literary honor, the Kleist-Preis, in 1932. A year later she left Germany forever. Her art, lifestyle, and Jewish heritage were intolerable to the new Nazi regime. Lasker-Schüler’s poetry is highly original and influential.

Haxton, a poet himself, recently published a book of translations for a generous selection of Lasker-Schüler’s poetry. Haxton will read a selection of his translated poems, and von Tippelskirch will read some of these in the original German. The hour will include coffee, cookies, and conversation about Haxton's choice to translate Lasker-Schüler, and about the art of translation itself.

Additional supporters:
German Program in Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

Eric Schiff, Physics