Wir Beide

"With me, it comes to an end, I can no longer love," is said to have been one of Else Lasker-Schüler's last statements before her death. Her love poems, in particular, demonstrate how bold and unrestrained love can be. During the time of love, mediocrity is out of the question. There is no everyday life, anywhere. Love is the only proof of an individual's uniqueness. For Else Lasker-Schüler, love is the right and the desire to challenge someone so intensely that they begin to meet the other's demands. The lover creates the beloved - and no one has done this as magnificently as Else Lasker-Schüler. Her poems show us what love can be: from the loneliness of unrequited desire to its extravagant exuberance. Eva Demski has selected 100 love poems for this edition from the "greatest lyricist Germany has ever had.".