Else Lasker-Schüler was born on February 11, 1869 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany. She was a writer, known for Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003), Summer (2007) and Die Wupper (1967). She was married to Georg Lewin and Berthold Lasker. She died on January 22, 1945 in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel].