Döblin's Life and Works - Beyond Alexanderplatz

Doctor Döblin and the writer Döblin

“I’m also a doctor, and not as a sideline,” declared Döblin. ...

October 15, 2024

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

Born 140 years ago today into a Germany newly unified under ...

October 15, 2024

Döblin settles accounts with his father

The family catastrophe that broke over the Döblin family when Alfred ...

October 15, 2024

First Look Back #2

This second excerpt from Döblin’s 1928 autobiographical reflections ‘A First Look ...

October 15, 2024

DOBLIN RECALLS HIS SCHOOLDAYS

In this third excerpt from his 1928 foray into autobiography (‘A ...

October 15, 2024

Doeblin in Exile (1)

During his 12 years in exile, unable to practice medicine, bereft ...

October 15, 2024

Anniversary of Doblin’s death

The tiny Vosges village of Housseras boasts a poignant claim to ...

October 15, 2024

Yolla and Alfred 1

For almost four decades, the intense liaison between Döblin and his ...

October 15, 2024

Sebald and Döblin

Was Döblin a racist and anti-Semite? Did Döblin betray Judaism and Socialism? Was ...

October 15, 2024

Contemporary reviews of Wallenstein

Few readers will embark on a 900 page novel without first ...

October 15, 2024

Alfred Döblin is known to the English-reading world, if at all, for only one of his many works: the big-city epic Berlin Alexanderplatz. With a new translation of THAT book appearing in 2018, this is a good moment to introduce Alfred Döblin’s OTHER major works – Beyond Alexanderplatz – in English!

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