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Adolf Knoblauch
1882–1951
Part of Berlin’s early modernist literary scene, this German writer and translator moved through the orbit of Herwarth Walden’s influential Der Sturm circle. His work includes poetry, fiction, and translations, with a career that stretched from the years before World War I into the mid-20th century.
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Dada Mit einem Holzschnitt von Lyonel Feininger
by Adolf Knoblauch
About the author
Born in 1882 and deceased in 1951, Adolf Knoblauch was a German writer and translator associated with the expressionist and avant-garde literary world. Reliable catalog and biographical records identify him as a Schriftsteller and Übersetzer, and place his death in Berlin.
Knoblauch is especially linked with Der Sturm, the important Berlin-based magazine and artistic circle led by Herwarth Walden. Archival and museum sources connect him to that circle from roughly 1914 to 1918, and also note early books such as Die schwarze Fahne (1915) and Kreis des Anfangs (1916).
His surviving record suggests a varied literary life: he published original writing, worked as a translator, and left behind a substantial archival estate of manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers. Some of his works are still accessible through digital library collections and Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep his name in view for readers interested in German modernism and expressionism.