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RESEARCH GUIDES

German Expressionism in Special Collections

This guide provides a listing of materials available in the Maryland Room relating to the German Expressionism movement.

Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn was born on May 2, 1886, in Mansfield, Germany and died July 7, 1956 in Berlin Germany.  Benn was a German writer, best known for his poetry, and was credited as being the most important poet of post-World War II Germany.

Benn is distinguished from most of the other authors within the German Expressionist collection due to the fact that he, instead of fleeing Germany in 1933 or refraining from getting overly involved with the politics of his time, chose to side with the Nazi regime and show his support for Hitler. He orally and publicly defended the regime in a radio broadcast (“a Reply to the Political Emigrants,” 1933), in the hopes that the Nazi party would take up the aesthetic form of Expressionism as their own. In 1937, he was prohibited from continued publishing, at which point he rejoined the army.  Benn played a role in the exile of Heinrich Mann from Germany.

Benn also dedicated one of his books of poetry, Der Sohne, to Else Lasker-Schüler (PT 2603.B46 S6 Rare Stacks; signed copy).

From Den Traum alleine tragen. Neue Texte, Briefe, Dokumente. (Hrsg. von Paul Raabe und Max Niedermayer).  (Pub. 1966) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 Z535

Works by Gottfried Benn

  • Altern als Problem für Künstler.  (Pub. 1954) Rare Stacks N7438 .B45
  • Ausdruckswelt : Essays und Aphorismen / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1949) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A8
  • Ausgewählte Briefe. Mit einem Nachwort von Max Rychner.  (Pub. 1957) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 Z53
  • Ausgewählte gedichte, 1911-1936.  (Pub. 1936) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A6 1936
  • Betäubung : fünf neue Gedichte / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1925) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 B4 1925
  • Den Traum alleine tragen. Neue Texte, Briefe, Dokumente. (Hrsg. von Paul Raabe und Max Niedermayer).  (Pub. 1966) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 Z535
  • Destillationen, Gedichte.  (Pub. 1957) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 D4
  • Diesterweg : eine Novelle / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1918) Rare Stacks PT2603.B46 D5 1918
  • Doppelleben, zwei Selbstdarstellungen.  (Pub. 1950) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 Z5 
  • Drei alte Männer, Gespräche.  (Pub. 1949) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 D7
  • Essays.  (Pub. ?) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A16 1951
  • Fazit der Perspektiven.  (Pub. 1930) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 F3 1930
  • Fleisch : Gesammelte Lyrik / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1917) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 F59
  • Fragmente; neue Gedichte.  (Pub. 1951) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 F65
  • Frühe Lyrik und Dramen.  (Pub. 1952) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 F69
  • Frühe Prosa und Reden; eingeleitet von Max Bense.  (Pub. 1950) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 F7
  • Gehirne : Novellen / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1916) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 G4 1916
  • Gesammelte Gedichte.  (Pub. 1927) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A17 1927
  • Gesammelte prosa.  (Pub. 1928) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A15 1928
  • Die gesammelten Schriften / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1922) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A1 1922
  • Das gezeichnete Ich; Briefe aus den Jahren 1900-1956. Mit einem Nachwort von Max Rychner.  (Pub. 1962) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 Z533
  • Kunst und Macht.  (Pub. 1934) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 K8 1934
  • Lyrik und Prosa, Briefe und Dokumente : eine Auswahl / Gottfried Benn ; hrsg. von Max Niedermayer.  (Pub. 1962) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A6 1962
  • Das moderne Ich / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1920) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 M6 1920
  • Monologische Kunst-? Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Gottfried Benn. Im Anhang: Nietzsche, nach 50 Jahren von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1953) Rare Stacks PT2623.E74 M6
  • Morgue : und andere Gedichte / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1923) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 M67 1923
  • Morgue, und andere Gedichte / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1912) Rare Stacks PT1174 .B34 1912
  • Nach dem nihilismus.  (Pub. 1932) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 N3 1932 
  • Der neue Staat une die Intellektuellen.  (Pub. 1923) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 N4 1933
  • Primäre Tage: Gedichte und Fragmente aus dem Nachlass.  (Pub. 1958) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 P7
  • Probleme der Lyrik.  (Pub.1951) Rare Stacks PN1361 .B4
  • Der Ptolemaer.  (Pub. 1949) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 P75
  • Reden.  (Pub.1955) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 A16 1955
  • Schutt / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1924) Rare Folio PT2603.E46 S3 1924
  • Söhne: neue Gedichte.  (Pub. 1913?) Rare Stacks PT2603.B46 S6
  • Soll die Dichtung das Leben bessern? / Gottfried Benn und Reinhold Schneider.  (Pub.1956) Rare Stacks PT2638.N453 Z58
  • Spaltung : neue Gedichte / von Gottfried Benn.  (Pub. 1925) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 S6 1925
  • Statische Gedichte.  (Pub.1948) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 S8 1948
  • Statische Gedichte / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub.1948) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 S8 1948a
  • Die Stimme hinter dem Vorhang.  (Pub. 1952) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 S7
  • Trunkene Flut : ausgewählte Gedichte (bis 1935, mit Epilog 1949) / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub.1949) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 T7 1949
  • Über mich selbst. 1886-1956.  (Pub.1958) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 Z54
  • Über mich selbst, 1886-1956 / Gottfried Benn.  (Pub.1956) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 U3
  • Das unaufhörliche, oratorium; text von Gottfried Benn, musik von Paul Hindemith, 1931. Textbuch.  (Pub. 1931) Rare Stacks ML53.H56 U6 1931
  • Der Vermessungsdirigent.  (Pub.1919) Rare Stacks PT2603.E46 V4