Alfred Döblin

Alfred Döblin was born in 1878 in Stettin, into an assimilated Jewish family; his father having left the family, he grew up in Berlin from the age of ten. A psychiatrist, then an internist, he kept a practice on Frankfurter Allee, in the city's working-class east, from 1913 to 1933, and became one of the leading figures of Expressionism. Exiled in 1933, he lived in France, whose nationality he took, then in the United States, where he converted to Catholicism. Returning in 1945 as an officer of the French military administration, he left again for France in 1953. He died in 1957 in Emmendingen.

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• NovelBerlin AlexanderplatzAlfred Döblin · 1929Literature