D zug von gottfried benn biography

  • Gottfried Benn (2 May – 7 July ) was a German poet, essayist, and physician.
  • Supplements his own version of his biography for this period given in "Doppelleben." In his remarks in about the membership policy of the RSK,.
  • Mediterranean is of course a prominent idea in Benn, expressed very early in poems such as "Gesange" (GW, ) and "D-Zug" (GW,.

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    He was born the son of a Lutheran pastor in Mansfeld, now part of Putlitz in the district of Prignitz, Brandenburg. He was educated in Sellin in the Neumark and Frankfurt an der Oder before studying theology at the University of Marburg and military medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy (Pépinière)in Berlin.

    Benn started as an expressionist author before World War I when he published a small collection of poems (Morgue, ) concerned with the physical decay of the flesh.

    His poetry offers an introverted nihilism: an existentialist philosophy which sees artistic expression as the only purposeful action. In his early poems Benn used his medical experience and terminology to portray a morbid conception of humanity as another species of disease-ridden animal. John Collins (Bullock & Woodings, , p)


    Benn enlisted in , spent a brief period on the Belgian front, and then served as a military d
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    ‘A Word’

    A word, a sentence – out of ciphers
    climb life untangled, sudden sense,
    the sun stands still, the spheres quieten,
    all things about that point condense.

    A word – a flash, a fire, flamethrower,
    flight, a shooting star of pain –
    then dark inexorably taking over
    in space, the world and self again.
    Gottfried Benn ranks among the most significant German poets of the twentieth century. His early work, with its shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and degradation, was associated with the Expressionist movement; the overriding theme of his later work was the isolation and fragmentation of the human being adrift in a nihilistic world.

    David Paisey here presents two selections, of verse and prose respectively, from Benn’s large oeuvre, ordered chronologically to enable readers to perceive the developments of Benn’s art and thought. In an important biographical introduction, Paisey tackles the difficult question of Benn’s compliance with the Nazi regime and its impa

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    Gottfried Benn's Static Poetry: Aesthetic and Intellectual-Historical Interpretations

    &#;Trunkene Flut

    Trunkene Flut,

    trance- und traumgefleckt,

    o Absolut,

    das meine Stirne deckt,

    um das ich ringe,

    aus dem der Preis

    der tiefen Dinge,

    die die Seele wei&#;.

    In Sternenfieber,

    das nie ein Auge ma&#;,

    N&#;chte, Lieber,

    da&#; man des Tods verga&#;,

    im Zeiten-Einen,

    im Sch&#;pfungsschrei

    kommt das Vereinen,

    nimmt hin&#;vorbei.

    Dann ni alleine

    nach gro&#;er Nacht,

    Korn und Weine

    dargebracht,

    die W&#;lder nieder,

    die H&#;rner leer,

    zu Gr&#;bern wieder

    steigt Demeter,

    dir noch im R&#;cken,

    im Knochenbau,

    dann ein Entz&#;cken,

    ein Golf aus Blau,

    von Tr&#;nen alt,

    aus Not und Gebrest

    eine Sch&#;pfergestalt,

    die uns leben l&#;&#;t,

    die viel gelitten,

    die vieles sah,

    immer in Schritten

    dem Ufer nah

    der trunkenen Flut,

    die die Seele deckt

    gro&#; wie der Fingerhut

    sommers die Berge fleckt.

    (GW, &#;61)

    &#;Trunkene Flut,&#; first published in and then