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.

Arno Holz and Phantasus

The first version of Arno Holz’s poem cycle ‘Phantasus’, published in 1898-99, contains 101 short poems, each presenting a scene…
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3 Political Essays 1919

Döblin’s eye-witness accounts of the end of the World War and the stumbling first steps of the Weimar Republic present…
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A Year in Hollywood

 For one year – 8 October 1940 to 7 October 1941 – Döblin was under contract to Hollywood’s MGM studio…
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