Time stamp series Women of German History - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2001 - 300 Pfennig

»Nelly Sachs, born on December 10, 1891 in Berlin. I came to Sweden on 16 May 1940 as a refugee with my mother. Residing in Stockholm since 1940, working as a writer and translator. "So laconically, the poet gave her information about her life and work shortly before her death on May 12, 1970 in Stockholm. After five decades spent in Berlin, from the Kaiserreich to the Nazi terror, during the last three decades of her life she was animated by the task of bearing witness to her own suffering and the painful fate of German Jewry. However, the late fame of her texts, poetry and translations did not save Nelly Sachs from the consequences of the Nazi terror she had suffered. For three years she was a psychiatric patient in Beckomberga / Sweden. The exile Swede reached the pinnacle of fame in 1965 with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the Nobel Prize for Literature, which she received a year later in Stockholm together with the Israeli author Josef Agnon.