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Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
is a 1929 novel by
Alfred Döblin
and is considered one of the most important and innovative works of the
Weimar Republic
.
[1]
The story concerns a small-time criminal, Franz Biberkopf, fresh from prison, who is drawn into the underworld. When his criminal mentor murders the prostitute whom Biberkopf has been relying on as an anchor, he realizes that he will be unable to extricate himself from the underworld into which he has sunk. In a 2002 poll of 100 noted writers conducted by the
Norwegian Book Clubs
, the book was named among the top 100 books of all time.
[2]
Style
The novel is set in the
working-class
neighborhoods near the
Alexanderplatz
in
1920s Berlin
. Although its narrative style is sometimes compared to that of
James Joyce
, critics such as
Walter Benjamin
have drawn a distinction between
Ulysses
’ interior monologue and
Berlin Alexanderplatz
’s use of montage.
[3]
[4]
It is told from multiple
points of view
, and uses sound effects, newspaper articles, songs, speeches, and other books to propel the plot forward.
Film adaptations
The novel was adapted twice into a film, the first in 1931, directed by
Piel Jutzi
.
[5]
Döblin worked on the adaptation, along with
Karl Heinz Martin
and
Hans Wilhelm
.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
starred
Heinrich George
,
Maria Bard
,
Margarete Schlegel
,
Bernhard Minetti
,
Gerhard Bienert
,
Albert Florath
and
Paul Westermeier
. It runs for 85 minutes.
The second adaptation,
Berlin Alexanderplatz
was directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
, and was first shown on and produced for German television in 1980, although it has also been shown theatrically. It runs for 15½ hours, and when it was released in New York, ticket holders were required to come to the theatre for three consecutive nights to see the entire film.
Berlin Alexanderplatz
is considered by many to be Fassbinder's
magnum opus
. Both films were released in November 2007 by the
Criterion Collection
in the U.S. in a multi-disc
DVD
set. A Region 2 edition of the Fassbinder version was released in the UK by Second Sight in October that year
==
Bruno Alfred Döblin
(
August 10, 1878
–June 26, 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. His first published novel,
Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lung
(
The Three Leaps of Wang Lun
), appeared in 1915 and his final novel,
Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende
(
Tales of a Long Night
) was published in 1956, one year before his death.
Born in
Stettin (Szczecin)
to assimilated Jews, Döblin moved with his mother and siblings to
Berlin
when he was ten years old after his father had abandoned them.
Döblin would live in Berlin for the almost all of the next forty-five years, engaging with such key figures of the prewar and
Weimar-era
German cultural scene as
Herwarth Walden
and the circle of
Expressionists
,
Bertolt Brecht
, and
Thomas Mann
. Only a few years after his rise to literary celebrity with the 1929 publication of
Berlin Alexanderplatz
, Döblin was forced into exile by the rise of the
Nazi dictatorship
. He spent 1933–1940 in France and then was forced to flee again at the start of the
Second World War
. Like many other German émigrés he spent the war years in
Los Angeles
, where he converted to Catholicism. He moved to
West Germany
after the war but did not feel at home in postwar Germany's conservative cultural climate and returned to France. His final years were marked by poor health and financial difficulties, and his literary work was met with relative neglect.
Despite the canonic status of
Berlin Alexanderplatz
, Döblin is often characterized as an under-recognized or even as a forgotten author;
[3]
while his work has received increasing critical attention (mostly in German) over the last few decades, he is much less well known by the reading public than other representatives of German modernism such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, or
Franz Kafka
.
Early life
Bruno Alfred Döblin was born on 10 August 1878 at the house at Bollwerk 37 in
Stettin (Szczecin)
, a port city in what was then the
Province of Pomerania
.
[4]
He was the fourth of five children born to Max Döblin (1846–1921), a master tailor from
Posen (Poznań)
, and Sophie Döblin (1844–1920), née Freudenheim, the daughter of a merchant.
[5]
Their marriage was characterized by a tension between Max's multifaceted artistic interests—to which Döblin would later attribute his and his siblings' artistic inclinations
[6]
—and Sophie's cool pragmatism.
[7]
The Döblins were assimilated Jews, and Alfred became aware of a broad, societal anti-Semitism early on.
His parents' marriage dissolved in July 1888, when Max Döblin eloped with Henriette Zander, a seamstress twenty years his junior, and moved to America to start a new life.
The catastrophic loss of his father was a central event in Döblin's childhood and would be formative for his later life.
Shortly thereafter, in October 1888, Sophie and the five children moved to Berlin and took up residence in a small shabby apartment on the Blumenstraße in Berlin's working-class east.
Döblin's parents briefly reconciled in 1889, when Max returned penniless from America; the family moved to Hamburg in April 1889, but when it came to light that Max had brought his lover back with him and was leading a double life, Sophie and the children returned to Berlin in September 1889.
The sense of being déclassé, along with rocky experiences at school, made this a difficult time for Döblin.
طفولة كارثية حيث هجر الوالد العائلة وسافر الى الولايات المتحدة مرتبطا مع امرأة اصغر منه بعشرين عام. ويتضح ان خسارة والده بتلك الطريقة كانت الزلزال الذي زلزل كيانه وترك اثره الواضح على حياته.
يتيم اجتماعي يرقى إلى اليتم الفعلي بسبب انفصال الأب عن العائلة بشكل كامل وهو في سن العاشرة حيث سافر الى امريكا.
يتيم اجتماعي بسبب انفصال الأبوين وهو في سن العاشرة.
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