biography
pronunciation:
[doebleen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1957)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Stettin, Germany. He studied medicine and practised as a neurologist and psychiatrist in Berlin. He founded the Expressionist periodical Der Sturm, and in 1933 fled to France and spent the War years in exile in the USA, returning to Germany as a literary inspector for the French in 1945. His early work shows him as one of the greatest literary exponents of Expressionism, as in Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (1913), Die drei Sprünge des Wang-Iun (1915), and Berge, Meere und Giganten (1924). In his chief book, Berlin Alexander Platz (1929), he also employs a multiplicity of styles and techniques including stream-of-consciousness, while always maintaining his own individuality. His conversion to Catholicism in 1941 influenced his writing, which included theological, philosophical and literary essays, radio plays, and a film adaptation of Berlin Alexander Platz (1931). |
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