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| Name: |
Gottfried Benn | | Birth Date: |
1886 | | Death Date: |
1956 | | Place of Birth: |
Mansfeld, Prussia | | Place of Death: |
West Berlin, Germany | | Nationality: |
German | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
author, physician, port |
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 Biography of Gottfried Benn
456 words, approx. 2 pages
 The German author Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) was an important expressionist writer. Influenced by his work as a physician, he demonstrated brutal antisentimentalism in both his poetry and prose. Gottfried Benn was born at Mansfeld, Prussia, the son of... summary from source:
 Biography of Gottfried Benn
8,136 words, approx. 27 pages
 Even today, thirty years after his death, Gottfried Benn is one of the most controversial figures of modern German literature. Arguments over his literary and political positions continue to spark debate. As Benn himself stated in 1948, he was... 
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 Benn, Gottfried (1886–1956) Summary
1,249 words, approx. 4 pagesBenn, Gottfried(1886–1956) Gottfried Benn, the German poet and critic, was born in Mansfeld in Westprignitz, of mixed Prussian and Swiss-French parentage. After studying philosophy and philology at the universities of Marburg and Berlin, he... summary from source:
 Gottfried Benn Information
1,173 words, approx. 4 pages
Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 – July 7, 1956) was a German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution. Benn had a literary influence on German...
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 The Modern Language Review Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics.(Book Review)
10/01/2005: 946 words, approx. 3 pages Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics. By SUSAN RAY. (Studies in Modern German Literature, 96) Oxford, Bern, Brussels, Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Vienna: Peter Lang. 2003. 205 pp. 42.80 [euro]; 26 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-03910-006-8. Susan Ray aims to recast and enhance... summary from source:
The Modern Language Review
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by James Rolleston
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In the following excerpt, Rolleston discusses the influence of German Expressionism on poetry during the period 1920-1970.
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Critical Essay by Ian Hilton
9,151 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Hilton traces the development of Benn's poetic style in relation to other modern German poets.
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