Benn, Gottfried (1886-1956). Eigh. Postcard in the U.S. "Your Benn." (ball pen). (snake bath) 20.VI.1956. From his last stay at the spa to Walter Lennig in Berlin, whom he asks to call a woman "who always cares so nicely. Please tell her I can't write and tell her the Malheur. In a week about we are again in the Bolzanoerstr., completely unhealed ...". - Benn died just three weeks later. The handwriting and the ballpoint pen, which partially fails at the signature, suggest the serious illness of the poet. - Here: The same. Dictated (or copied) handwritten letter. 1 p. (pencil). Gr. 8vo. (Slangenbad 13.VI.1956. - To the same, one week before the above postcard written. "Staatl. Spa hotel (very expensive!). ... Unfortunately, the situation here was quite different than I hoped. When I arrived here half-dead of pain, I threw myself on the bed, asked a bath doctor to me, a very nice, sympathetic man, who looked at my documents from Berlin, heard my story & said: 'Dear friend, you are out of place here, you have come here 4 weeks too early, completely excluded, in case of such an acute attack of rheumatism & neuritis & so high blood drop To take any balneological action would only worsen the situation. They stay stuck in bed and get a shot of Irgapyrin from me every day.' That's how it happened. I now have 7 syringes without a slight improvement, the pain is enormous. Eating in bed, because I can't sit down at the restaurant, was not a step out of bed yet. The weather: rain, fog, cold. A very desolate location ... This is the first word I write... Guard Dramburg! Blessed memory of Dramburg! Her Benn". - Dramburg was the Schöneberg restaurant where Benn and Lennig regularly ate beer together. - Moving impressions from the last weeks in the life of the poet.