Gottfried Benn
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Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951.
Benn in 1934
Library in Berlin named after Gottfried Benn
Benn's tomb in Berlin
Else Lasker-Schüler
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Else Lasker-Schüler was a German poet and playwright. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest
Gottfried Benn
…Berlin. Many of his literary works reflect on his time as a pathologist. In the summer of 1912, Benn started a romantic relationship with the Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler. Gottfried Benn began his literary career as a poet when he published a booklet titled Morgue and Other Poems in 1912, containing expressionist poems…
Else Lasker-Schüler shortly after her first marriage
L to R: Berthold Lasker, Else Lasker-Schüler, Anna Lindwurm-Lindner, and Franz Lindwurm-Lindner; around 1900
Lasker-Schüler dressed in an Oriental costume as her alternative persona "Prince Yussuf" (1912)
The grave of Else Lasker-Schüler on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem