Alfred Döblin

Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), to a Jewish family. He studied medicine in Berlin and Freiburg, eventually practicing as a neurologist and psychiatrist in Berlin's working-class eastern districts—an experience that saturated his fiction with the textures of urban poverty. He was a prolific writer from his youth, associated with the Expressionist movement, and published numerous novels before Berlin Alexanderplatz made him famous in 1929. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Berlin Alexanderplatz.