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Gottfried Benn

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Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) served in the German army’s medical corps during WWI and used his clinical experiences as inspiration for his first collections of poetry, Morgue und andere Gedichte (1912) and Fleisch (1917).

Poems by Gottfried Benn
  • Fragments 1953
  • Divergences
  • Left the House
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