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Alfred Döblin
Bruno Alfred Döblin was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles, Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism. His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to s…
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culture · German novelist, essayist, and doctor (1878–1957) · writer · playwright · novelist · essayist · physician writer · journalist · neurologist · science fiction writer · poet · physician · also Alfred Döblin, Linke Poot, Döblin
Born 10 August 1878 · Died 26 June 1957 · Q57389
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2025· 1 entry
Berliner Zeitung: Von Alfred Döblin bis Zille: Hier lebten die ganz großen Berlin-Promis
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2023· 3 entries
Deutschlandfunk: Alfred Döblin - Arzt und Schriftsteller
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ZEIT: Literatur: Autor Jan Kuhlbrodt erhält Alfred-Döblin-Preis
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idw: Alfred Döblin-Medaille 2023 für Ralph Tharayil
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2022· 1 entry
welt.de: Berlin saniert Alfred-Döblin-Haus in Schleswig-Holstein
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2021· 1 entry
Galileo Publishing released the first English translation of the novel, by Chris Godwin, under the title Mountains Oceans Giants: An Epic of the 27th Century
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2007· 2 entries
DiePresse: Verkannt, verbittert, ein Vorbild: Alfred Döblin starb vor 50 Jahren
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Tagesspiegel: Alfred Döblin: Der Amokläufer unter den Autoren
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1957· 2 entries
Died 1957-06-26.
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Awarded Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (1957).
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1953· 1 entry
Alfred and Erna returned to Paris despite the invitation by Brecht and Johannes R
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1945· 1 entry
Döblin's 18-year-old son Stefan was called up for military service in the French army
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1943· 1 entry
"I learned more about the essence of the epic from Döblin than from anyone else
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1940· 1 entry
Aged 62, Döblin was again uprooted by the German invasion of France, and spent weeks in a refugee camp in Mende
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1939· 1 entry
And the German occupation of France in 1940, Döblin worked for the French ministry of information, writing counter-propaganda texts against Nazi Germany with a group of French Germanists and journalists, as well as artis
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1935· 1 entry
Began work on his Amazon Trilogy, which narrates the colonization and Christianization of South America and was published in 1937–1938
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1931· 1 entry
By Eugene Jolas, a friend of James Joyce
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1929· 1 entry
Its innovative use of literary montage as well as its panoramic portrayal of a modern metropolis have earned it a place among the key works of literary modernism
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1928· 1 entry
For example, he was elected to the prestigious Prussian Academy of Arts with the persistent support of Thomas Mann—literary and economic success continued to elude Döblin
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1925· 1 entry
Joined the Gruppe 1925, a discussion circle of progressive and communist intellectuals including Bertolt Brecht, Johannes R
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1921· 2 entries
In a volume called Der deutsche Maskenball (The German Masked Ball)
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Under the title Der Epiker, sein Stoff und die Kritik (The Epic Poet, his Material, and Critique)
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1920· 1 entry
Döblin joined the Association of German Writers (Schutzverband Deutscher Schriftsteller), and in 1924 he became its president
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1916· 2 entries
(although back-dated to 1915), this epic historical novel narrates upheaval and revolution in 18th-century China, and was favorably received by critics, who praised its detailed and exotic depictions of China
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This historical novel about political uprising in 18th-century China was a literary breakthrough for Döblin, earning him literary acclaim, public recognition, and the prestigious Fontane Prize
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1915· 1 entry
And his final novel, Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende (Tales of a Long Night) was published in 1956, one year before his death
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1913· 1 entry
A "fantasy of fact" ("Tatsachenphantasie")—an interdisciplinary poetics that draws on modern discourses ranging from the psychiatric to the anthropological to the theological, in order to "register and articulate sensory
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1900· 1 entry
Döblin enrolled at Friedrich Wilhelm University (now Humboldt University of Berlin) and began studying general medicine
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1889· 1 entry
When Max returned penniless from America; the family moved to Hamburg in April 1889, but when it came to light that Max had brought his lover back with him and was leading a double life, Sophie and the children returned
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1878· 1 entry
Born 1878-08-10.
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