Dagmar Nick

Dagmar Nick, born in Breslau in 1926, was a German poet and writer. From 1933 onward she lived in Berlin and published numerous volumes of poetry and prose, travel books, and radio plays from 1947 onward. She was regarded as one of the important German-language poets after 1945. Nick was a member of the German PEN Centre and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and received numerous awards. She was the daughter of composer Edmund Nick and a cousin of historian Fritz Stern.