Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn was born in 1886 in Mansfeld, in the Prignitz, son and grandson of pastors. He studied theology in Marburg, then military medicine in Berlin, and performed autopsies in 1912 and 1913. A military doctor in Brussels during the war of 1914, he then opened a dermatology and venereology practice in Berlin. In 1933 he welcomed the new regime, then moved away from it, joined the army as a doctor in 1935, which he called an aristocratic form of emigration, and was forbidden to write in 1938. Büchner Prize winner in 1951, he died in Berlin in 1956.

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• PoetryMorgue und andere GedichteGottfried Benn · 1912not translated into EnglishLiterature