Döblin’s Non-Fiction

Döblin produced a huge amount of non-fiction alongside his novels: political journalism, theatre reviews, essays reflecting on his art and the position of the writer in a chaotic age, his philosophy of nature, the Jewish question, the deep drivers of Western history…

We shall post a growing archive of translations covering these topics.

German Masquerade

Writings on Politics, Life and Literature in Chaotic Times INTRODUCTION NOTE: An earlier version of this selection was posted in…
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The Cutting Room Floor

Eight outcast and orphaned pieces from the prolific pen of Alfred Döblin “He found production in no way difficult; on…
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Döblin in Exile (2)

  Flippant and untimely, or profound and appropriate to the time? Irresponsible “comedy” in the face of calamity, or black…
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Doeblin in Exile (1)

During his 12 years in exile, unable to practice medicine, bereft of income from his writings, and in 1940 again…
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German Masquerade

 Döblin’s writings on politics, life and literature are completely unknown to English speaking readers. Yet his non-fiction output was enormous:…
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Defenestrations

In (at least) three of his major fictions, and scattered through his other writings, we find females flinging themselves from…
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Kapp Putsch

 The Versailles Treaty required Germany to reduce its military to no more than 100,000 men. When the  government of the…
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DOBLIN RECALLS HIS SCHOOLDAYS

In this third excerpt from his 1928 foray into autobiography (‘A First Look Back’), Döblin provides both factual and emotionally-charged…
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First Look Back #2

This second excerpt from Döblin’s 1928 autobiographical reflections ‘A First Look Back’ provides an intimate and touching picture of his…
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