Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 – July 7, 1956) was a German essayist and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution.

Works

• Morgue und andere Gedichte (Berlin, 1912)
• Fleisch (1917)
• Die Gesammelten Schriften (Berlin, 1922)
• Schutt (1924)
• Betäubung (1925)
• Spaltung (1925)
• Nach dem Nihilismus (Berlin, 1932)
• Der Neue Staat und die Intellekuellen (1933)
• Kunst und Macht (1935)
• Statische Gedichte (Zürich, 1948)
• Ptolemäer (Limes, 1949); Ptolemy's Disciple (edited, translated and with a preface by Simona Draghici, Plutarch Press, 2005, ISBN 0943045207 (pbk).
• Doppelleben (1950); autobiography translated as Double Life (edited, translated, and with a preface by Simona Draghici, Plutarch Press, 2002, ISBN 0943045193).
• Stimme hinter dem Vorhang; translated as The Voice Behind the Screen (translated with an introduction by Simona Draghici (Plutarch Press, 1996, ISBN 094304510X).

Collections

• Sämtliche Werke ("Stuttgarter Ausgabe"), ed. by Gerhard Schuster and Holger Hof, 7 volumes in 8 parts, (Stuttgart 1986-2003, ISBN 3608953132).
• Prose, Essays, Poems by Gottfried Benn, edited by Volkmar Sander; introduction by Reinhard Paul Becker (Continuum International Publishing Group, 1987, ISBN 0826403107 & ISBN 0826403115 (pbk.)
• Selected Poems (Clarendon German series) by Gottfried Benn (Oxford U.P., 1970, ISBN 0198324510)
• Gottfried Benn in Transition by Gottfried Benn, edited by Simona Draghici (Plutarch Press, 2003, ISBN 0943045215)
• Poems, 1937-1947 (Plutarch Press, 1991, ISBN 0943045061)