biography
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| (1886–1956)
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| biography:
| Poet and physician, born in Mansfeld, EC Germany. He embraced the philosophy of Nihilism as a young man, and later became one of the few intellectuals to favour Nazi doctrines. Trained in medicine as a venereologist, he began writing Expressionist verse dealing with the uglier aspects of his profession, such as Morgue (1912). After 1945 his poetry became more versatile though still pessimistic, as in Statische Gedichte (Static Poems, 1948), and he became recognized as a leading poet of the 20th-c. |
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