author
Alfred Döblin
1878–1957
Best known for the modern classic Berlin Alexanderplatz, he brought the noise, speed, and social tensions of big-city life into fiction with unusual energy. He was also a physician, and that close view of everyday struggle helped shape his sharp, humane writing.
8 Audiobooks
Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen
by Alfred Döblin
Wallenstein. 1 (of 2)
by Alfred Döblin
Die Lobensteiner reisen nach Böhmen: Zwölf Novellen und Geschichten
by Alfred Döblin
Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord
by Alfred Döblin
Blaubart und Miss Ilsebill
by Alfred Döblin
Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun: Chinesischer Roman
by Alfred Döblin
Wallenstein. 2 (of 2)
by Alfred Döblin
Berge Meere und Giganten : Roman
by Alfred Döblin
About the author
Born in Stettin in 1878, Alfred Döblin became one of the major voices of German literary modernism. He studied medicine, worked as a doctor in Berlin, and wrote across many forms, including novels, essays, and historical fiction. Critics such as Encyclopaedia Britannica have described him as a leading narrative writer of German Expressionism.
His most famous novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), made his name internationally with its vivid portrait of urban life and formal inventiveness. But his work was much broader than a single book: over the course of decades he produced an ambitious body of fiction marked by experimentation, intellectual range, and deep attention to the pressures of modern life.
Döblin left Germany after the Nazi rise to power in 1933 and spent years in exile in France and later the United States before returning to Europe after World War II. He died in 1957, and he is still remembered as a writer who expanded what the modern novel could do.