Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1951.
Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich) and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks (Die Leute von Seldwyla), he became...
"Nur zwei Dinge" is a poem by the German poet Gottfried Benn. It is dated 7 January 1953 and was first published in the Frankfurt edition of the Neue Zeitung on 26 March 1953. In May of the same year, it appeared in Benn's collection of poems...
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and anti-fascist activist. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann (with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship) and...
Statische Gedichte (lit. 'Static Poems') is a 1948 poetry collection by the German writer Gottfried Benn. It was well received by German critics and treated as the culmination of Benn's poetry. It had an influence on Martin Heidegger's late...
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German writer, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
Morgue and Other Poems (German: Morgue und andere Gedichte) is a 1912 poetry collection by the German writer Gottfried Benn. It is a booklet with nine expressionist poems, the first six of which are the Morgue cycle, which describes images and...
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (October 21, 1897 in Vienna – July 3, 1976, in Vienna) was an Austrian writer, dramatist, and poet whose extensive body of work ranks among the most significant German-language literature of the 20th century. In his writing,...
The 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American author Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on...
Helmut Lethen (14 January 1939 – 13 August 2026) was a German literary and cultural scholar who taught at Utrecht University from 1977 to 1985 and at the University of Rostock from 1996 to 2004. He was director of the International Research Centre...
