Alfred (* 10 August 1878 in Stettin; "† 26 June 1957 in Emmendingen) was a German physician and a society-critical writer.

Life

From 1888 on in Berlin lived. The family had pulled there, after the father had left it and with a substantially younger woman to America had emigrated. Already early the technical progress, which was expressed in the large city life, inspired it. From 1905 to 1930 Alfred worked as a mental specialist in Regensburg, Freiburg in mash gau and Berlin. 1910 began its cooperation at Herwarth Waldens of newly expressionistischer magazine "“the storm"”. Heinrich of Kleist, Friedrich and Friedrich Nietz were its literary and philosophical models in this work phase. It belonged to the first writers, who used the radio as medium. 1912 married Erna tear; from the marriage four children should follow. In the First World War served as an army surgeon particularly in an epidemic military hospital in the Elsass. During the war it began to write at its boiling stone novel. In the district Berlin Lichtenberg established, he became eye-witness of the citizens of Berlin of March fights, which should become later the topic of its most extensive novel "“November 1918"”. Among other things in its citizens of Berlin time wrote numerous articles (e.g. over plays and films, in addition, over the life in the roads of the capital) for the German-language Prager day sheet. These work shows frequently a picture of the everyday life in Berlin in the years of the Weimar Republic. Some the sketches developed in such a way were received into the novel "“Berlin Alexanderplatz"”. In its political texts of this time it appeared as left critics of the SPD co-operating with Hindenburg. Its novels appeared in the S. Fischer publishing house.

There Jewish origin, he fled in February 1933 before the national socialists first to Zurich, then to Paris. 1936 it accepted the French nationality. With outbreak of war 1939 occurred as a coworker the French propaganda Ministry and wrote together with other German emigrant handbills. In June 1940 fled first with the remaining coworkers of the Ministry and its wife after Southern France. Later in the year it fled first to Lisbon and finally emigrierte into the USA to Los Angeles, where it worked for short time in the film industry. On 30 November 1941 with its family crossed to the catholicism, which predominantly encountered in the exile municipality refusal.

It was one of the first exile authors, who returned to Europe. On 15 October 1945 it reached Paris, in November began it its service as a literature inspector of the French military administration in the rank Colonels first in Baden-Baden and later in Mainz. Its task covered the censorship of manuscripts and the preparation of a literary monthly magazine, which appeared finally under the name the golden gate. In addition it wrote for the "“new newspaper"” and for the southwest radio. In addition a group of young writers collected itself around it, under it Grass. Disappointment made itself 1918 fast over the political restoration of the post-war period noticeably, particularly in view of the failure of its revolution novel with it. Also it rejected approximation attempts Johannes R. Bechers in the service of the academy of the arts of the GDR because of the socialist Dogmatismus', although it wrote contributions for GDR magazines and its Hamlet novel first only in the GDR appeared. 1953 went to again to France, where he remained until 1956.

Its novel "“Berlin Alexanderplatz"” (1929) is most well-known, which as the first and most important German large city novel was received into literature history and represents a milestone in the history of the modern novel: already used the techniques of the collage and the as a coworker in the magazine "“the storm"” on suggestion by the art trend of the Futurismus developed in Italy around 1910 around the writer F.T. Marinetti and the painters Boccioni, Russolo and Carra in its narrations in the volume "“the murder of a buttercup"” (1913) and in "“Berlin Alexanderplatz"” (1929) to perfection brought.

"“Berlin Alexanderplatz"” was filmed several times, first 1931 of Piel Jutzi with Heinrich George in the role of the Franz beaver head, 1979 of Rainer Werner barrel binder as multi-divisors for the television.

His second son Wolfgang which was a mathematician, sent 1940, briefly before its Suizid, the writing "“Sur de Kolmogoroff"” to the French Academy of Sciences. Therein it anticipated the results in ingenious way over stochastic integration of Ito Kiyoshi.

Works

• 1913 - The murder of a buttercup, narrations
• 1915 - The three jumps Wang lun, novel
• 1918 - Wadzeks fight with the steam turbine, novel
• 1920 - Boiling stone, expressionistischer historical novel
• 1924 - Mountains, seas and giant, novel (1932 shortened u.d.T.: Giant)
• 1925 - Journey in Poland, report
• 1927 - Manas, verse pos
• 1929 - Berlin Alexanderplatz, novel
• 1934 - Babylonian moving, novel
• 1935 - Pardon is not given, novel
• 1938-1950 - November 1918. A German revolution, novel in four volumes
• 1956 - Hamlet or the long night takes an end, novel

Literature

• Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Alfred (essay); into "“the most beautiful"” No. 4, VIITH Jg. ; Munich, April 1961, P. 61-65. This essay appeared again under the title stations between them

See also

• Alfred price
• Exile literature
• List of forbidden authors during the third realm
• Alfred Patientenbibliothek

Related links

• www.alfred-doeblin.de - international Alfreds society (IADG)
• www.bad-bad.de - Biografie
• www.ub.fu-berlin.de - link collection
• www.vivantes.de

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