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Nelly Sachs

1891 - 1970

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Nelly Sachs (German pronunciation: [ˈnɛliː zaks] ; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German–Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe 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 (1950); other works include the poems "Zeichen im Sand" (1962), "Verzauberung" (1970), and the collections of poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes (1947), Flucht und Verwandlung (1959), Fahrt ins Staublose (1961), and Suche nach Lebenden (1971). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nelly Sachs has received more than 955,583 page views. Her biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Nelly Sachs is the 241st most popular writer (up from 405th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Germany (up from 346th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Writer.

Nelly Sachs was a German-Jewish poet who wrote in Swedish. She is most famous for her poem "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (I have become lost to the world).

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nelly Sachs ranks 241 out of 5,755Before her are François de La Rochefoucauld, Anna Akhmatova, Philip K. Dick, Coen brothers, Torquato Tasso, and Doris Lessing. After her are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jacob Grimm, Sallust, J. K. Rowling, Germaine de Staël, and Bram Stoker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Nelly Sachs ranks 11Before her are B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, Walter Model, James Chadwick, Max Ernst, and Edith Stein. After her are Henry Miller, Frederick Banting, Pär Lagerkvist, Walther Bothe, Rudolf Carnap, and Rafael Trujillo. Among people deceased in 1970, Nelly Sachs ranks 13Before her are Jimi Hendrix, Erich Maria Remarque, Yukio Mishima, Sukarno, Hjalmar Schacht, and Max Born. After her are Édouard Daladier, Alexander Kerensky, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, Paul Celan, and François Mauriac.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nelly Sachs ranks 195 out of 6,142Before her are Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), Edith Stein (1891), Philip Melanchthon (1497), Rudolf I of Germany (1218), and Emil Fischer (1852). After her are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756), Jacob Grimm (1785), Michel Ney (1769), Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Frederick William II of Prussia (1744), and Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Nelly Sachs ranks 13Before her are Heinrich Heine (1797), Charles Bukowski (1920), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Heinrich Böll (1917), Novalis (1772), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770). After her are Jacob Grimm (1785), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Ernst Jünger (1895), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), and Paul Heyse (1830).