In careful analyses of selected scenes from Nelly Sachs' dramas (1891-1970), the study pinpoints the Jewish, language-philosophical and aesthetic traditions central to the stage works of this author. The texts themselves represent an inherently complex process of artistic reflection on the limits between lyric and dramatic diction. By concentrating on individual texts by an author profoundly shaken by the shoah, the analysis situates her dramatic oeuvre in the context of the ongoing debate on obsessive memory in the face of the universal disappearance of idealist utopias.