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Statische Gedichte

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Statische Gedichte
AuthorGottfried Benn
LanguageGerman
PublisherArche Verlag [de]
Publication date
1948
Publication placeSwitzerland
Pages80

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 philosophy.

Contents

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1941–1944 Ach, das ferne Land
1945–1946 Quartär
1944 Chopin
1945–1946 Orpheus' Tod
1939 Verse
1941 Gedichte
Bilder
1920–1940 Welle der Nacht
1930–1933 Am Saum des nordischen Meer's
1935 Tag, der den Sommer endet
1937 Die Gefährten
1944 Dann
1944 V. Jahrhundert
1935 Astern
1944 September
1943 Alle die Gräber
1943 Wenn etwas leicht
1941 Ein Wort
1943 Gärten und Nächte
1933 Sils-Maria
1943 Ein später Blick
1943 Nachzeichnung
1927 In Memoriam Höhe 317
1943 Verlorenes Ich
1941 Henri Matisse: „Asphodèles“
1938 Ist das nicht schwerer
1943 St. Petersburg – Mitte des Jahrhunderts
1943 Mittelmeerisch
1936 Einsamer nie
1936 Wer allein ist
1934 Spät im Jahre
Suchst Du
Der Traum
Anemone
1936 Turin
1936 Leben – niederer Wahn
1935 Ach, das Erhabene
Sommers
1941 Abschied
Die Form
Statische Gedichte

Reception

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The book was very well received by German critics, who in many cases treated it as the pinnacle of Benn's poetry. The dominant view of German critics in the 1950s was that Benn had created his own path within modernist poetry, starting in expressionism and culminating with Statische Gedichte. An exception was Gottfried Willems [de], who argued that Statische Gedichte was a dead end, whereas Benn's poetry after it influenced the next generation of German poets, the Neue Lyrik of the 1960s.[1]

Statische Gedichte influenced Martin Heidegger during his late period, when he became more interested in the poetic. According to Martin Travers, Heidegger was especially influenced by Statische Gedichte in his 1949 essay collection Holzwege and 1957 essay "Das Wesen der Sprache".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Davies, Peter (2004). "Gottfried Benn". The Modern Restoration: Re-thinking German Literary History 1930-1960. pp. 194–195. ISBN 3-11-018113-4.
  2. ^ Travers, Martin (2010). "Gottfried Benn's Statische Gedichte (1948) and the Final 'Turn' towards the Poetic in the Work of Martin Heidegger". German Life and Letters. 63 (2): 179–193. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01491.x.