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Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) reads 15 poems from her volume of poetry "Fahrt ins Staublose" (written between 1940 and 1961. Selected by Nelly Sachs) and 36 poems from the cycle "Glühende Rätsel", which was published in 1963. Nelly Sachs was a Jewish German-Swedish writer and poet. In 1966, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic works, which interpret the fate of Israel with moving strength".