Nelly Sachs

By Anna Lozhkina

GERMANY

GEOGRAPHY total: 357,022 sq km land: 348,672 sq km water: 8,350 sq km country comparison to the world: 63 three times the size of Pennsylvania natural resources: oil, lignite, natural gas iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, potash salt, construction materials, timber

POPULATION• Population: 80,854,408 ( July 2015 )• Ethnic groups: German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, Other 6.1% ( Russian, Greek, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian)

• Age structure:0-14 years: 12.88%

15-24 years: 10.38%25-54 years: 41.38%55-64 years: 13.91%

65 years and over: 21.45%• Official language: German

RELIGION• Protestant 34%, • Roman Catholic 34%, • Muslim 3.7%,• unaffiliated or other 28.3%

HISTORY

• Germanic Tribes and Frankish Empire 1 century AD -3 century AD

• Martin Luther established The Protestant Reformation 1517

• United German Empire by Otto von Bismarck 1871

• World War I 1914-1918

• Weimar Republic 1919

• Adolf Hitler the head of government and NSDAP 1933-1945

• World War II 1939-1945

• East and West Germany 1949-1989

• The fall of Berlin Wall 1989

• German Reunification 1990

• Angela Merkel- the first female Chancellor of Germany 2005

CULTURE

• Art: Albrecht Dürer, Mathias Grünwald, Peter Paul Rubens, Caspar Friedrich, Karl Spiezweg

• Literature: The brothers Grimm, Johan W. von Goethe, Friedrich Shiller, Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, Heinrich Boll, Günter Grass.

• Philosophy: Immanuel Kant, J.G. Fichte, Georg Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nitsche, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

• Music: L.V. Beethoven, J.S.Bach, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, G.Handel

• Cuisine: Famous German beer, Wine “ Riesling”, Bratwurst, Weisswurst, Black Forest Cake – Schwarzwald Gateau.

• October Fest! ( Munich) • Fun fact: German restaurants are the second most decorated after French

( Michelin Guide )

German Literature

• Early Modern German Literature 1500-1789• Modern German Literature 18th-19th century: Storm and Stress 1760-1780German Classicism 1729-1832German Romanticism 1790-1880Biedermeier 1815-1848• 20th century German literatureSymbolismExpressionismNational socialist literature 1939-1945• Contemporary German Literature 1989-

Hansel and Gretel

THE HOLOCAUST

• Location: Nazi Germany and occupied territories

• Date: 1941-1945 • Target: Jewish, Slavic, Romani, homosexual,

POV and political opponents of Nazi Germany, disabled civilians.

• Attack type: genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportation, mass murder

• Deaths: 10-12 million. ( Jewish- 6 million, the rest is non-Jewish victims )

• Number of participants: 200,000 • Perpetrators: Nazi Germany

Nelly SachsLiterary Rap Sheet   Artist Name: Nelly Sachs DOB December 10, 1891. Died May 12, 1970 Country/ Place of Birth: Schöneberg, Germany Education: was educated at home because of frail health Religious views: Judaism Genre: poetry, playwright Main themes: love and death , religion, catastrophe of the Holocaust. Style: Sachs' poetry is intensely lyrical and reflects some influence by German Romanticism, especially in her early work. Later it becomes more compressed and surreal. Other: received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Examples: “ In the Houses of Death”, “Eclipse of Stars”, “ No One Knows Where to Go” , “ Flight and Metamorphosis” “ Signs in the Sand”

“We, the Rescued, the worms of fear still feed on us. Our constellation is buried in dust”

SOURCES

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Sachs • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany • https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

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