Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), a doctor for skin and venereal diseases, was one of the most important German poet of the 20th Century. No other polarized and divided the German literary community in a manner as Benn did it - his entire literary effect while he was an excellent Provocative, who was interested in exploring the world through the eyes of reality to consider.
"intellectualism is the cold analysis earth, warm it has been long considered enough was idyllic and naive and fruitless. "(Benn) at the beginning of his literary work Benn an expressionist poet. He published in 1912, the little poem collection "Morgue" and split so early on the literary stock in two parties: the part of the avant-garde, he received applause and approval, however, the bourgeois literary critics reacted mostly with anger and rejection. Benn was the provocative force in the selection of topics of his poetry. He turned the usually idyllic flower motifs and youth in contrast with the ugly - no, rather it was the ugly to the aesthetic program collected which found the "Malitätsbonisierung" an expression. In his poem "Asteroid", the switch is drowning in the body of a drowned beer driver. Benn deliberately provoked by depersonalized man and personified the flower. The ugly is the theme. Critics charged and throw him and still do, that his poetry was macabre. But he wanted to put his poetry to reality, so to speak, using the symptoms of his time make a medical diagnosis.
a short time, Benn sympathized with the Nazis and mocked the exiles, but he was not a supporter of Nazi ideology. Benn was impressed by the collective strength of this movement. His mistake and human errors were aware of him but in time, and he distanced himself from National Socialism. Later, he stated. "Infinite shame at my descent, [...] infinite sadness at the betrayal I was planning to commit to me, throws me to"
As Nietzsche Adept Benn is also prescribed performance art - a kind of metaphysics in Nietzsche's interpretation .
"Artistry is the attempt of the art, within the general deterioration of the contents, see themselves as content and form of this experience a new style, it is an attempt to put to a general nihilism of values, a new transcendence: transcendence the creative joy. "(Benn) The grasp the world and their reality in terms that they be cleaned in concepts and to bring in a form as timeless enduring - it was Benn's literary interest and skill. Self-realization meant for him, using the creative power to shape words and to bring in a form to overcome the nihilism of the outside world.
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