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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Döblin is the 492nd most popular writer (up from 621st in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 128th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Writer.

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

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Among writers, Alfred Döblin ranks 492 out of 7,302. Before him are Romain Gary, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Ivan Bunin, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Louise Glück, and Phaedrus. After him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, Arnold Bennett, Lysias, Traudl Junge, Marie-Antoine Carême, and Margaret Atwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Alfred Döblin ranks 12. Before him are Gustav Stresemann, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, Werner von Blomberg, Manuel L. Quezon, Pancho Villa, and André Citroën. After him are Robert Walser, Lucien Febvre, Pyotr Wrangel, Ferenc Molnár, Paul Reynaud, and Maurice René Fréchet. Among people deceased in 1957, Alfred Döblin ranks 23. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi, Oliver Hardy, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Henry van de Velde, Gabriela Mistral, and Irving Langmuir. After him are Heinrich Hoffmann, José Leandro Andrade, Curzio Malaparte, Jože Plečnik, Richard E. Byrd, and Joseph McCarthy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Alfred Döblin ranks 93 out of 1,694. Before him are Johannes Hevelius (1611), Stefan Banach (1892), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Carl Menger (1840), and Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833). After him are Anton Denikin (1872), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Władysław Reymont (1867), Józef Gosławski (1908), Leopold Kronecker (1823), and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Alfred Döblin ranks 9. Before him are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Janusz Korczak (1878), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), and Andrzej Sapkowski (1948). After him are Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), and Jan Potocki (1761).

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