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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.

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science · German writer and physician (1886–1956) · poet · physician writer · essayist · novelist · physician · author · also Gottfried Benn, Benn

Born 2 May 1886 · Died 7 July 1956 · Q57277

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Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1951).
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1956· 2 entries

Jul 7, 1956Documented record86% confidence

Died 1956-07-07.

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1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And was buried in Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Berlin

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1953· 1 entry

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Released the poem Nur zwei Dinge, which appeared in the Benn's collection of poems Destillationen

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1951· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1951Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1951).

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1938· 1 entry

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The Reichsschrifttumskammer banned Benn from further writing

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1935· 1 entry

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Where he found many officers sympathetic to his disapproval of the régime

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1932· 1 entry

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And appointed head of that section in February 1933

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1914· 1 entry

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And spent a brief period on the Belgian front, then served as a military doctor in Brussels

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1913· 1 entry

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A second volume of poems came out, titled Sons

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1912· 4 entries

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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, cancer, and death — for example No III — Cycle:

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Benn turned to pathology, where he dissected over 200 bodies between October 1912 and November 1913 in Berlin

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Containing expressionist poems dealing with physical decay of flesh, with blood, cancer, and death — for example No III — Cycle:

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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.

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1886· 1 entry

May 2, 1886Documented record86% confidence

Born 1886-05-02.

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