“How much longer Jewish People—No-People?” is the title under which Alfred Doeblin, the famous author of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” makes an eloquent appeal to the Jews of the world. It consists of ...

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Editor’s Note: Alfred Döblin, the Weimar-era author of ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz,’ was born on this day in 1878. To honor this occasion, we revisit this award-winning story about the writer’s connection ...

COLOGNE, Germany -- The Berlin International Film Festival will screen all 15-plus hours of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz," based on the novel by Alfred Doeblin, to ...

‘He stood outside the gates of Tegel Penitentiary, a free man.” So begins the darkling odyssey of Franz Biberkopf, benighted antihero of Alfred Döblin’s epic novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz.” The ...

The Prussian Academy of Letters which was founded last year, has just held its second election of members. As the Academy is limited by its Constitution to thirty members, there were only five seats ...

In the vast graveyard that is Europe, there lies a sacred plot reserved for the Weimar Republic — Germany’s bright but stillborn sanctuary for liberalism, libertinism and a host of other projected ...

In Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the ...