Google is today shining a light on the life of Else Lasker-Schüler - a German writer and artist famous for her bohemian lifestyle, and her poetic genius.
Born in 1869 to a prominent Jewish family, Else was educated by her parents and encouraged to pursue her artistic talents.
She married Jonathan Berthold Lasker in 1894, and moved to Berlin to train as an artist. She became a well known figure on Berlin's bohemian scene, and her first volume of poetry - Styx - was published in 1902.
A year later, in 1903, Else divorced her husband and married Georg Lewin. Their relationship lasted seven years, but they separated in 1910 and divorced two years later.
Else was destitute for much of her career, and relied on friends to support her artistic outlet.
They were only too happy to help. Else's work - largely themed on romance or religion - was gaining in popularity, and she was considered a poetic genius. In 1932 she won the Kleist Prize - the most prestigious literary award of the Weimar Republic.
When Hitler rose to power, it became unsafe for Else to remain in Germany. After falling victim to street attacks and intimidation, she fled to Zurich, then Palestine before eventually settling in Jerusalem in 1937.
She was stripped of her German citizenship in 1938, and WW2 soon made it unsafe for Else to return to Europe where Jewish people were being persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime.
She lived out the rest of her days in Jerusalem, dying of a heart attack in 1944. She was 75-years-old.
Why is Else Lasker-Schüler being celebrated with a Google Doodle today?
Else Lasker-Schüler's most famous poem - My Blue Piano, or Meine Blaues Klavier - was published on this day in 1937. She wrote it while living in Jerusalem and it was published in a Swiss newspaper.
Today, Else is remembered with a memorial plaque on her old house in Berlin.
There are also streets named after her in both Berlin-Schoneberg and Jerusalem.
