Avtor/Urednik		Križman, M
Naslov		Zdravnik, pesnik in pisatelj Gottfried Benn med medicino in poezijo
Prevedeni naslov		Doctor, poet and writer Gottfried Benn between medicine and poetry
Tip		članek
Vir		In: Zupanič-Slavec Z, editor. Zbornik referatov Med medicino in literaturo. 1. Pintarjevi dnevi: srečanje medikohistorikov Alpe-Jadran; 1994 okt 14-15; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Inštitut za zgodovino medicine,
Leto izdaje		1994
Obseg		str. 85-96
Jezik		slo
Abstrakt		Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), a German physician and specialist for venerial and skin diseases. With the emergence of national socialism he was at first an adherent of its ideology and the advocate of some of the actions derived from it. He felt that this movement fought for the restoration of man, an idea which had already been introduced by expressionism in a different, thought identically gorish sense. It was very soon that Benn recognized the dangerous ideological passion of national socialism, and thus kept a distance from the official movement in that country. He was severely criticized. In 1938 he was no longer allowed to publish his works and could only work as an army medical officer, much needed to the regime. He was abolished from the artistic and scientific institutions, whose member he was. However, after the War he won the Buechner award (1951) and the Cross for merits was given him by the Federal Republic (1953). He became most famous in the later years of his life. Benn had a great stylistic influence on generations of poets. He wrote the so-called absolute prose. His work comprises eighteen collections of poems (including antologies). Almost all of them were published afte World War II. In 1912 he published his first collection of poems entitled The Morgue. Here already one can cleary sense the poet's being caught between medicine and literature. And thus the disonances of being become evident. Continuous confrontations with diseaes and death and at the same time with poetry soon shaped the poet into an esoteric and realist. In his poems he dissected the crue lties of life only apparently realistically, or in a deep primary seing without disguising the thrill of disease and death. abstract truncated at 3200 characters.
Deskriptorji		MEDICINE IN LITERATURE POETRY