Alfred Döblin

Alfred Döblin (Stettin, 10 August 1878 — Emmendingen, 26 June 1957) was a German physician and writer of modernist novels.



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[hide] *1 Life  ==Life[ Edit] == Döblin was the 4th child of Max and Sophie Döblin. Max Döblin was tailor in the Prussian Stettin (now Szczecin just across the border with Poland). When his father left the family, Döblin was ten. Thanks to a scholarship could Alfred, at the age of 13, continued studying at the Köllnischer Gymnasium. Döblin studied medicine in Berlin and received his doctorate in the Neurology in the Freiburger Psychiatric Klinik in Freiburg im Breisgau. His studies were paid for by his brother Ludwig and his uncle Rudolph Freudenheim, a brother of his mother. Alfred was working as a psychiatrist in Berlin from 1905 to 1933. In 1907 he began a relationship with the then 16-year-old modelFrieda Kunke. They get together in 1911 a son, Bodo Kunke. In 1912 Alfred accepts the legitimate paternity. In the meantime, however, he is already married to Erna Reiss. With Erna he gets three more sons: Peter, Wolfgang and Klaus.
 * 2 Berlin Alexanderplatz
 * 3 other works
 * 4 Socialist and Jew
 * 5 literary importance
 * Work 6
 * 7 external links

He has published stories in the magazine Der Sturm, as well as political treatises under the pseudonym Linke Leg. From his experiences with psychiatric patients he experimented in his stories, of which the most notable murder of a ' The Buttercup ' Ermordung einer Butterblume Which,, is. The young expressionistDöblin was a, which turned out to be very intrigued by the phenomenon of mass culture, or how an individual in the crowd can go up and lose its identity.

During the first world war was Döblin voluntary physician in the Alsace. Where he initially, from nationalism, the war a good thing was made, he experienced over time thetechnique as a dangerous threat to being human. His first three novels deal with the interaction between man and machine and the paradox that a human creation eventually dominate the man goes. After the war, when he worked in Berlin again, Döblin involved in the new objectivity; He went under the influence of the Dada collagesalso make, the narrative style, which was already previously polyphonic, became a kind of aloof-ironic ' reporting ', with many pseudoscientific reasoning and an essay-like construction.

Berge, Meere und Giganten is a wide drawn-out epic, a future utopia on the (forced) man has a choice between nature and the artificial, the city and countryside and the wars and cultures that shooting. ==Berlin Alexanderplatz[ Edit] == Döblins best known and most successful work is, however, was made into a film, Berlin Alexanderplatzthat. A large city novel (1929) about whores, pimps, murderers and thieves and an ex-prisoner (Franz Biberkopf) who want to get on the right path, which fails. Franz, the individual. He is individual. A worker who is released from prison and who to be, yet again ' decent ' with the assembled forces of the Berlin underworld to deal with. After a search for his own identity in the anonymous mass he conquers a place as a member of the community. The novel was banned by the Nazis and was part of the book burning in May 1933. This novel uses the stream of consciousnesstechnique, intersected with ' non-literary ' interludes such as statistical material and has a supportive message; It is the most important city novel from the German literature. Berlin Alexanderplatz was filmed several times, first in 1931 by Piel Jutzi with Heinrich George in the role of Franz Biberkopf, 1980 by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as television series with Gunter Lamprecht as Franz Biberkopf. ==Other works[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">That Drei Sprunge des Wang-lun was Döblins third novel he wrote, although it was the first that was published as a book. The book was published in 1916 and was awarded the ' Fontane Prize '. The epic historical novel tells the story of the turmoil and revolution in the 18th century China. The book was well received by critics who Döblin preezen for his detailed presentation of China. It also had an important influence on other younger German writers. After Berlin Alexanderplatz was the Döblins best-selling novel.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1918, Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine published. This comic novel was as a precursor to the more famous Berlin Alexanderplatz seen, because of its experimental narrative technique, the lack of psychological analysis of the characters, and the image of Berlin as a modern metropolis. The book tells the story of Wadzek, a factory owner who loses the fight by a more potent competitor. Are all pointless countermeasures which it adopts, turn out to be. After this defeat he flight out of the country, by to Board on a steam ship to America. Ironically, that ship powered by steam turbines of his victorious rival. Döblin wrote this novel in the fall of 1914. While he served as a doctor on the Western front, the book checked and stylistic analysis. Eventually published the Fischer Verlag the novel in 1918.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The epos Wallenstein deals with the thirty years ' war and was published in 1920. Although the book was generally well received by critics, was disappointed in the way his work anyway Döblin received. In his eyes was this nameljk one of his most excellent works that he had created. As a result, a caustic criticism about the critics, Döblin wrote under the title Der Epiker, sein Stoff und die Kritik, published in 1921. Wallensteinrevolves around the tension between Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman Emperor, and his general, Albrecht von Wallenstein. Wallenstein represents a new way of warfare, characterized by a ruthless realities of politics, and capitalist expansion. Ferdinand II on the other hand, is increasingly overwhelmed by all kinds of events and gradually pulls itself back from politics. Döblins interpretation of the thirty years ' war differed from the prevailing vision. He suggested that the war was the result of national-political, financial and individual psychological disappointment factors, while the prevailing vision stated that the conflict was about a religious.The novel Wallenstein is among the most innovative and important historical novels of the German literary tradition included.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1924 the Berge Meere und Giganten science fiction novel published. This novel tells the story of human history from the 20th to the 27th century, a global struggle between technological obsession, forces of nature and competing political visions. The book deals with themes such as urbanization, the alienation of nature and ecological devastation, mechanization, the modern world that is less and less human, as well as mass migration, globalization, totalitarianism, fanaticism, terrorism, State control, genetic engineering, synthetic food, breeding of humans, biochemical warfare, and others when the book appeared, it was seen as a difficult work, and got the often conflicting criticisms.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">November 1918: eine Deutsche Revolution is a novel about the German revolution of 1918-1919. The book consists of four parts (Bürger und Heimkehr der Fronttruppen Verratenes people, Soldiers, and Karl und Rosa) and is seen as the most important work of Döblin in exile (1933-1945). The novel is very praised by persons such as Bertolt Brecht. Gabriele Sander sees the book as a highlight of Döblins work in the genre of historical novel.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hamlet oder nimmt ein Ende That long night (1956) was Döblins latest novel. The book tells the story of Edward Allison, an English soldier who was severely wounded during the second world war, and returns to his family. Once back home, he must learn to deal with his war trauma, former family conflicts and his dislocated self-esteem. The novel acts include topics such as the search for the self, guilt and responsibility, the battle of sexes, war and violence, and religion. Döblin wrote the book actually already in the years 1945-1946, but it was not published until 1956. The reference to Hamlet in the German title of the book is probably due to Döblins lecture on Sigmund Freud his interpretation of Hamlet by Shakespeare. ==Socialist and Jew<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Döblin was a critical socialist and Jewish. In 1933, after the seizure of power by the NAZI PARTY, he fled first to Zürich and then to France, that he had to leave, however, after the capitulation. Eventually he ended up in the United States, where as balling MGM. He converted to Catholicism In 1940. At the end of the Second World War he returned as enthusiastic contributor to the reconstruction of Germany and settled in then toBaden-Baden and Mainz. However, once again he was disappointed in the political developments of his country — he was also vehemently opposed against the capitalism — and moved to Parisin 1953. After having published one novel, he died lonely in the Black Forest. ==Literary importance<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The importance of Döblin for the 20th-century literature is hard to overestimate: he was the first German writer who is a big epic storytelling combined with an interdependence with life in the big city and that on the basis of expressive expression means the implications of technological progress for humanity described. Döblin exerted a great influence on Günter Grass; He was the James Joyce regarded as the German, also in the area of the impact that he has failed on the literature. ==Work<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Ermordung einer Butterblume That 1910 (short story collection)
 * 1915 Die drei Sprünge des Wang-Lun
 * Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine 1918
 * 1920 Wallenstein
 * 1924 Berge Meere und Giganten
 * 1927 Manas
 * 1929 Berlin Alexanderplatz. Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf
 * Hochmut kommt vor dem Wandrung oder 1934 Babylonian Fall
 * 1935 Pardon wird nicht gegeben
 * 1937 those Fahrt ins Land ohne Tod
 * 1938 Der blaue Tiger
 * 1948 Der neue Urwald
 * 1949 Schicksalsreise. Message und Bekenntnis
 * 1950 November 1918. Eine deutsche Revolution (trilogy)
 * 1956 Hamlet oder nimmt ein Ende That long night