Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (
May 2,
1886 -
July 7,
1956) was a
German author and
poet. He was born in Mansfeld,
Prignitz and lived most of the time in Berlin.
Benn started as an expressionist author before World War I; he published a small collection of poems (Morgue und andere Gedichte ["Morgue and other poems"], 1912).
He died in Berlin in 1956, and was buried in Dahlem Waldfriedhof, Berlin.
Edition
- Sämtliche Werke ("Stuttgarter Ausgabe"), ed. by Gerhard Schuster and Holger Hof, 7 volumes in 9 parts, Stuttgart 19??-2003.