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May 9, 2024 · They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Nelly Sachs (born Dec. 10, 1891, Berlin, Ger.—died May 12, 1970, Stockholm, Swed.) was a German poet and dramatist who became a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. When, with Shmuel Yosef Agnon, she was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize ...
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Nelly Sachs, (December 10, 1891 – May 12, 1970) was a German poet and dramatist, whose Nazi experience transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels, which translates to Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Isreal, which was ...
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Legenden und Erzaehlungen.1921. In den Wohnungen des Todes[In the Habitations of Death]. 1947. Sternverdunkelung[Eclipse of the Stars]. 1949. Und niemand weiss weiter[And No One Knows How to Go On]. 1957. Flucht und Verwandlung[Flight and Metamorphosis]. 1959. Noch feiert Tod das Leben[Death Still Celebrates Life]. 1960. Fahrt ins Staublose: Die Ge...
Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels [Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel] (radio broadcast 1951; produced 1962). 1951. In Das Leiden Israels, 1962; in O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli, 1967; in Selected Poems: Including the Verse Play 'Eli,'1968. Zeichen im Sand: Die szenischen Dichtungen der Nelly Sa...
Das Buch der Nelly Sachs.1968. Briefe.1984. Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence.1995. Editor and translator, Aber auch diese Sonne ist heimatlos: Schwedische Lyric der Gegenwart[Once Again the Sun Is Homeless: Swedish Poetry of Today]. 1957. Editor and translator, Weil unser einziges Nest unsere Flugel sindby Erik Lindegren. 1963. Editor and tr...
"Journey into Dustlessness: The Lyrics of Nelly Sachs" by Paul Konrad Kurz, in his On Modern German Literature, 1967; "A Theosophy of the Creative Word: The Zohar-Cycle of Nelly Sachs" by W. V. Blomster, in Germanic Review, XLIV, 1969, pp. 221-27; "The Process of Renewal in Nelly Sachs' Eli " by Dinah Dodds, in German Quarterly, XLIX(1), January 19...
Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany on December 10, 1891. She is most recognized as a dramatist and poet in addition to a spokeswoman for the Jews. The daughter of a Berlin industrialist, Sachs grew up in an artistic home where she early imbibed a love of literature. At the age of 15, after reading Gösta Berling by Swedish author Selma ...
Nelly Sachs was the only daughter of humane, highly cultured parents. Her father, William, was a prosperous manufacturer living in Berlin; her mother, Margarethe, was a pleasant, refined woman ...
Nelly Sachs died on May 12, 1970, the day Paul Celan was buried in Orly near Paris. He had drowned himself in the river Seine around April 20. On December 10, 1971, which would have been her 80th birthday, the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme opened the Nelly Sachs room of the Kungliga Library in Stockholm. The room recreates Sachs' small ...
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On May 16, 1940, Nelly and Margarete Sachs arrived in Stockholm on the last plane from Berlin (their father had died in 1930). In addition to the hard work of survival (Sachs worked for a time as a laundress) and the exhausting care of her ailing mother, she began writing poetry cycles and scenic poems. Despite her great productivity, Sachs was ...
