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Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
- 2 May 1886, Mansfeld, Germany
- 7 July 1956 (aged 70), West Berlin, Germany
Apr 17, 2024 · Gottfried Benn (born May 2, 1886, Mansfeld, Ger.—died July 7, 1956, Berlin) was a German poet and essayist whose expressionistic pessimism and conjurations of decay in the period immediately after World War I gradually mellowed into a philosophy of pragmatism. He was perhaps the most significant poet in post-World War II Germany.
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Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) served in the German army’s medical corps during WWI and used his clinical experiences as inspiration for his first collections of poetry, Morgue und andere Gedichte (1912) and Fleisch (1917).
Gottfried Benn (* 2. Mai 1886 in Mansfeld bei Putlitz, Prignitz; † 7. Juli 1956 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Dichter, Essayist und Arzt. Er wuchs als Sohn eines Theologen in einem Pfarrhaus auf. Nach einem abgebrochenen Studium der Theologie schloss er erfolgreich das Medizinstudium ab. 1912 erschien der erste Gedichtband Morgue und andere ...
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May 18, 2018 · Gottfried Benn. The German author Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) was an important expressionist writer. Influenced by his work as a physician, he demonstrated brutal anti-sentimentalism in both his poetry and prose. Gottfried Benn was born at Mansfeld, Prussia, the son of a Lutheran minister. The poet's earliest influences were the stern discipline ...
Translator’s Note: Five Poems by Gottfried Benn. Once before in these pages (October 2006), I sketched at slightly greater length the career of Gottfried Benn, and in particular how this major twentieth-century German poet has been received (or not received) in English. Not wanting either to repeat myself or contradict myself, this time I ...
Translator’s Notes: “Little Aster” by Gottfried Benn. Gottfried Benn began as a skinny and larky medical student in a wing collar. The “Morgue” poem cycle of 1912 that made his name was “written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after” (the most stylish authority on Benn being always Benn). The years then seemed ...
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