WRITER

Alfred Döblin

1878 - 1957

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Bruno Alfred Döblin (German: [ˈalfʁeːt døːˈbliːn] ; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles, Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism. His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to science fiction to novels about the modern metropolis; several dramas, radio plays, and screenplays; a true crime story; a travel account; two book-length philosophical treatises; scores of essays on politics, religion, art, and society; and numerous letters—his complete works, republished by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag and Fischer Verlag, span more than thirty volumes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Döblin has received more than 345,320 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Alfred Döblin is the 622nd most popular writer (down from 556th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Poland (down from 106th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Writer.

Alfred Döblin is most famous for writing the novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz."

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Notable Works

Hamlet
1956
Wallenstein
Fiction
1920
Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun
1915
Reise in Polen
1926
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1929
Pardon wird nicht gegeben
1935

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfred Döblin ranks 622 out of 7,302. Before him are Olga Tokarczuk, Bert Hellinger, Louisa May Alcott, Émile Verhaeren, Leo Africanus, and Tirso de Molina. After him are J. M. Barrie, Poliziano, Mihai Eminescu, Zecharia Sitchin, August Wilhelm Schlegel, and Samuel Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Alfred Döblin ranks 15. Before him are Gustav Stresemann, André Citroën, Pyotr Wrangel, Lucien Febvre, Robert Walser, and Ferenc Molnár. After him are Paul Reynaud, Milan Nedić, Shigeru Yoshida, Gustav Radbruch, Iwane Matsui, and Gemma Galgani. Among people deceased in 1957, Alfred Döblin ranks 25. Before him are Walther Bothe, Richard E. Byrd, Irving Langmuir, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Joseph McCarthy, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. After him are Curzio Malaparte, Jože Plečnik, František Kupka, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Heinrich Hoffmann, and José Leandro Andrade.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Döblin ranks 128 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Daluege (1897), Albert Sabin (1906), Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755). After him are Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Hanna Schygulla (1943), Angelus Silesius (1624), Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260), and Adolf Anderssen (1818).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Alfred Döblin ranks 12. Before him are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), and Olga Tokarczuk (1962). After him are Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), B. Traven (1882), and Johanna Schopenhauer (1766).

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