Gottfried Benn was a German poet and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Gottfried Benn was born in a Lutheran country parsonage, a few hours from Berlin, the son and grandson of pastors in Mansfeld, now part of Putlitz in the district of Prignitz, Brandenburg, he was educated in Frankfurt an der Oder. To please his father, he studied theology at the University of Marburg and military medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin. After being laid off as a military doctor in 1912, Benn turned to pathology, where he dissected over 200 bodies between October 1912 and November 1913 in 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 dealing with physical decay of flesh, with blood and death — for example No III — „Cycle: Der einsame Backzahn einer Dirne, / die unbekannt verstorben war, / trug eine Goldplombe.

/ Die übrigen waren wie auf stille Verabredung / ausgegangen. / Den schlug der Leichendiener sich heraus, / versetzte ihn und ging für tanzen. / Denn, sagte er, / nur Erde solle zur Erde werden. The lonesome molar of a love-maid, / who had died unknown, / wore a gold filling. / As if by silent agreement the leftovers / had gone out. / The mortician knocked out the filling, / went dancing for. / Because, he said, / only earth should return to earth. Poems like this "were received by critics and public with shock, dismay revulsion." In 1913 a second volume of poems came out. New Poems. Benn's poetry projects an introverted nihilism, that is, an existentialist outlook that views artistic expression as the only purposeful action. In his early poems Benn used his medical experience using medical terminology, to portray humanity morbidly as just another species of disease-ridden animal. After the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in 1914, spent a brief period on the Belgian front served as a military doctor in Brussels.

Benn attended the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell. He worked as a physician in an army brothel. After the war, he returned to Berlin and practiced as a dermatologist and venereal disease specialist. During the 1920s, he had a close relationship with Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler who addressed love poems to him; this bond to her is the subject of the film Mein Herz-niemandem by Helma Sanders-Brahms. Hostile to the Weimar Republic, rejecting Marxism and Americanism, like many Germans, was upset with ongoing economic and political instability, sympathized for a short period with the Nazis as a revolutionary force, he hoped that National Socialism would exalt his aesthetics and that expressionism would become the official art of Germany, as Futurism had in Italy. Benn was elected to the poetry section of the Prussian Academy in 1932 and appointed head of that section in February 1933. In May, he defended the new regime in a radio broadcast, saying "the German workers are better off than before."

He signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft, that is, the "vow of most faithful allegiance" to Adolf Hitler. The cultural policy of the new State didn't turn out the way he hoped, in June Hans Friederich Blunck replaced Benn as head of the Academy's poetry section. Appalled by the Night of the Long Knives, Benn turned away from the Nazis, he lived refraining from public criticism of the Nazi party, but wrote that the bad conditions of the system "gave me the latter punch" and stated in a letter that the developments presented a "dreadful tragedy!" He decided to perform "the aristocratic form of emigration" and joined the Wehrmacht in 1935, where he found many officers sympathetic to his disapproval of the régime. In May 1936 the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps attacked his expressionist and experimental poetry as degenerate and homosexual. In the summer of 1937, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampooned Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels. In 1938 the Reichsschrifttumskammer banned Benn from further writing.

During World War II, Benn was posted to garrisons in eastern Germany where he wrote poems and essays. After the war, his work was banned by the Allies because of his initial support for Hitler. In 1951 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, he died of cancer in West Berlin in 1956, was buried in Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Berlin. Benn had a great influence on German poetry before World War I, as well as after World War II. Morgue und andere Gedichte Fleisch Die Gesammelten Schriften Schutt Betäubung Spaltung Nach dem Nihilismus Der Neue Staat und die Intellektuellen Kunst und Macht Ausgewählte Gedichte Note: 1st edition contained two poems that were removed for the 2nd edition in November 1936:'Mann und Frau gehen durch die Krebsbaracke' and'D-Zug'; the vast majority of the 1st editions were destroyed. Statische Gedichte Ptolemäer. Doppelleben.

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