Dagmar Nick

Dagmar Nick (born May 30, 1926 in Breslau ) is a German poet and writer .

Life

Dagmar Nick was born as the second child of the composer Edmund Nick and the concert singer Käte Nick-Jaenicke. She is a great cousin of the historian Fritz Stern . Her mother, Käte Nick-Jaenicke, was considered a “ half-Jew ” during the Nazi era . The father, musical director of the radio company Schlesische Funkstunde in Breslau, was dismissed in 1933 in the course of the National Socialist conformity . The family moved to Berlin, where Dagmar attended high school. After graduating from high school in 1943, she became seriously ill with tuberculosis. In 1944, the family's apartment in Berlin-Wilmersdorf was badly damaged by an aerial mine, so that the family moved to Bohemia, from where they were able to flee to Bavaria at the end of February 1945. Dagmar then studied psychology and graphology in Munich. Since then she has lived in Munich, interrupted only by a four-year stay (from 1963 to 1967) in Israel.

Dagmar Nick was married to the translator and dramaturge Robert Schnorr, the doctors Peter Davidson and Kurt Braun.

Along with Rose Ausländer , Ingeborg Bachmann and Hilde Domin , Dagmar Nick was counted among the most important German-speaking poets after 1945. She joined the Association of German Writers in Munich (SDS Bayern) in 1948 and has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 1965, and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2005 .

Awards

• Liliencron Prize of the City of Hamburg in 1948
• Honorary gift from the Foundation for the Promotion of Literature, Munich 1951
• Literature Prize of the Landsmannschaft Silesia 1963
• Eichendorff Literature Prize 1966
• Honorary gift for the Andreas Gryphius Prize 1970
• Roswitha Prize 1977
• Tukan Prize of the City of Munich 1981
• Culture Prize Silesia of the State of Lower Saxony 1986
• Schwabing Art Prize for Literature of the City of Munich 1987
• 1993: Andreas Gryphius Prize
• 1996: Gedok Literature Prize
• 2001: " Munich shines " in silver
• 2002: Jakob-Wassermann Literature Prize of the City of Fürth
• 2006: Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 2006: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2009: Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry
• 2020: Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum

Works

prose

• Invitation to Israel . (1963)
• Islands of gods in the Aegean . (1981) 2005. ISBN 3-89086-866-5
• Sicily . (1987) 2002. ISBN 3-89086-739-1
• Medea, a monologue . (1988) 1998. ISBN 3-89086-949-1
• Lilíth, a metamorphosis . (1992) 1998. ISBN 3-87365-277-3
• Jewish activity in Breslau. Recollected memory: Old Asch and the Bauers . Würzburg 1998. ISBN 3-87057-219-1
• Penelope, an experience . 2000. ISBN 3-87365-323-0
• The escape . Three radio plays. 2006. ISBN 3-89086-603-4
• Snapshots . 2006. ISBN 3-89086-607-7
• Rhodes, remembered . 2007. ISBN 3-89086-557-7
• Captured shadows. My Jewish family book . Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-406-68148-6

Poetry

• Martyrs . 1947
• The book of Holofernes . 1955
• Testimony and Sign . (1969) 1990. ISBN 3-89086-943-2
• Lines of flight, poems from 33 years . 1978
• At the standstill of the hours . 1991. ISBN 3-89086-948-3
• Counted Days . (1986) 1992. ISBN 3-89086-947-5
• Star Trails - Companions . 1993. ISBN 3-89086-894-0
• In the Ellipses of the Moon . (1959) 1994. ISBN 3-89086-946-7
• Reversed masks . 1996. ISBN 3-89086-945-9
• Mourning without taboo . 1999. ISBN 3-89086-945-9
• Waypoints . Selected poems. 2000. ISBN 3-89086-760-X
• Love poems . 2001. ISBN 3-89086-778-2
• Shadow talks . 2008. ISBN 3-89086-564-X
• Apostate heart . Fuchstal 2018. ISBN 978-3-931798-46-8

Further works and publications

• Dagmar Nick: Israel yesterday and today (documentary) 1968
• Edmund Nick , The literary cabaret, Die Schaubude 1945–1948. His story in letters and songs . Edited and commented by Dagmar Nick. 2004. ISBN 3-86520-026-5
• Text for the hit song "Don't let yourself get down" from the Hans Albers film 'Foehn', composed by Mark Lothar. Published in 1950 in interpretations by Hans Albers (record Decca F 49288) and the Metropol vocalists (record Odeon O-26917).
• After every war. Twentieth-Century Woman Poets . ( Anthology ) by Eavan Boland, Princeton University Press 2004.
• Individual poems and prose in over 240 anthologies and school books
• Poems and prose published in English (USA), Polish, Hungarian

literature

• Sabine Friedrich: Awareness of tradition as coping with life. On the life and work of Dagmar Nick, Frankfurt am Main 1990 (also Univ., Diss. Munich 1989).
• Dagmar Nick , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 19/2001 of April 30, 2001, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• "Life-in-this-time" | Radio Treasures CD
• Vorlass Dagmar Nick in the Monacensia
• Literature by and about Dagmar Nick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Deutschlandfunk. In conversation / poet Dagmar Nick

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dagmar Nick: Captured Shadows. My Jewish family book . Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68148-6 , pp. 266 .
2. ↑ http://www.rundfunkschaetze.de/?s=sender+breslau&searchsubmit=%7CDer Sender Breslau with Edmund Nick and Erich Kästner
3. ↑ Dagmar Nick in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
4. ↑ Eavan Boland, After Every War , Princeton University Press, 2004. (Dagmar Nick, A Biografical note).