Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin · Arts & Literature
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1878, Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) — 1957, Emmendingen, West Germany
Germany · France · United States
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Alfred Döblin was a German novelist and physician whose montage-driven masterpiece 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' (1929) is a landmark of modernist literature. Persecuted as a Jew, he fled Germany in 1933 through France to the United States, later returning to Europe. Born into a Jewish family, he converted to Catholicism in 1941, though he is remembered as one of the great German-Jewish writers.
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