In 1917, she created her first assemblage absurd art pieces. Elsa moved to New York, living on and off with her new husband while also working as an artist’s model while also and shifts in a cigarette factory. In 1913, Elsa married her third husband, the Baron Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven and she became Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the name she became known for as an artist. She trained as an actress, cabaret and vaudeville performer and became very involved in the artistic life in both Munich and Dachau. The German Absurdist and Dada performance artist, poet and assemblage artist Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Plötz) was born in 1874 and worked in both Germany and America before returning to Germany where she died in 1927. She was buried by friends and admirers at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem in Israel. Her last two plays Arthur Aronymus : die Geschichte meines Vaters ( Arthur Aronymus and his ancestors) and Ich und ich (I and I) are considered Absurdist masterpieces. Living a hand to mouth daily life in Jerusalem, she died eventually of a heart attack in 1945. With the rise of Nazism, she left Germany for Zurich and then eventually for Israel where she lived in poverty often mocked for her eccentric dress and behaviour. In 1927, the death of her son sent her into a deep depression which lasted much of her life.
Lasker-Schüler was actively shunned in the 1920s by the mainstream art, poetry and theatre scenes. This five act play is considered by most to be one of the first absurdist plays by a woman due to its divergent narrative structure along with its atmospheric broad strokes and emphasis on the meaninglessness of relationships and interactions emphasise stylistic qualities of this theatre style. The play was not publicly performed until 1919 in Berlin. This was soon followed by the publication of her first play Die Wupper in 1909. In 1907, her prose collection Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad started her exploration of absurdist forms. When she remarried the Expressionist artist and founder of the art magazine Der Sturm in 1903, she started to become prolific as a writer and artist. After moving to Berlin around 1890 she became heavily involved in the literary scene. Else Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish playwright, performer, painter and poet born in 1869 in Elberfield in Germany.
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