Nelly Sachs. Werke (Band 1): Werke. Kommentierte Ausgabe in vier Bänden

Volume I of the Werkausgabe. In May 1940, the poet Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) fled on one of the last airplanes from Berlin to Stockholm. Thus began thirty years of exile, during which she produced a lyrical oeuvre that was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. Together with her friend Paul Celan, Sachs is one of the most important German-language poets of the postwar period. From the sublime tones of her early grave writings to the flight and transformation of the 1950s to the drastic incandescent riddles of her late work, poetry always constituted a form of survival for this author, aiming at a poetic "paining through" of the world. With this edition of her works, which will include not only the complete lyrical oeuvre but also the remote prose works and many scenic poems, including the unpublished dramas from the 1960s, the poetry of the exiled author is brought closer to the public.