Abstract
Abstract This article explores the circus motif in German-Jewish Expressionist author and artist Else Lasker-Schüler’s 1912 novel Mein Herz: Ein Liebesroman mit Bildern und wirklich lebenden Menschen and in her 1937 prose collection Das Hebräerland. The article suggests that the presence of the circus is central to her avant-garde works and playful aesthetics and that the circus, belonging to the arena of childhood, reflects a longing for new beginnings. Exploring Lasker-Schüler’s imaginative yet serious approach to the circus and its cast of artists, its affinities to Lasker-Schüler’s Orientalism, and her use of various personas, the article investigates new beginnings as liberation revealed between Earth’s creatures and the cosmos.
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