Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Statische Gedichte [Static poems] (Zürich 1948)
Ptolemäer (Limes 1949); Ptolemy's Disciple (edited translated and with a preface by Simona Draghici) Plutarch Press 2005 ISBN 0-943045-20-7 (pbk). He was educated in Sellin in the Neumark and Frankfurt an der Oder. In 1938 the Reichsschrifttumskammer (the National Socialist authors' association) banned Benn from further writing.

Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 Putlitz Brandenburg – 7 July 1956 West Berlin) was a German essayist novelist and expressionist poet.