Gottfried Benn[Gottfried_Benn]

City of Residence: n. Mansfeld, Branderburg - d. Berlin
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Barul de noapte :
Poetry 2005-10-14 (10925 hits)

Ceata : in romaneste de Nina Cassian
Poetry 2005-10-09 (8366 hits)

Circuit :
Poetry 2006-03-10 (7751 hits)

Privire-n sus :
Poetry 2005-10-14 (10247 hits)

Schöne Jugend :
Poetry 2009-06-18 (21690 hits)

Biography Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn (2 mai 1886 în Mansfeld, Brandenburg - 7 iulie 1956 în Berlin) a fost un doctor, poet și eseist german.

Se recunoaste azi ca Benn nu este numai unul dintre marii poeti germani ai vremii, alaturi de Rilke, George, Trakl ci poate celk mai influent, pentru ca a sintetizat o intreaga epoca si un intreg curent.

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Born: 2-May-1886
Birthplace: Mansfeld, Germany
Died: 7-Jul-1956
Location of death: Berlin, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Dahlem Waldfriedhof, Berlin, Germany


Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Poet, Author

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot

Military service: German Army (WWI)

Wife: (#1, d. 1914)


University: University of Marburg
University: Medicine, Kaiser Wilhelm Academy, Berlin


Georg Büchner Prize 1951


Author of books:
Morgue und andere Gedichte (1912, poetry)
Fleisch (1917, poetry)
Statische Gedichte (1948, poetry)
Doppelleben (1950, memoir, "Double Life")
Primal Vision (1961, collection, translated to English)