Döblin, Alfred
Döblin, Alfred (1878–1957),German writer. From the very outset of his career he incorporated a variety of fairy‐tale motifs in his work, even in his celebrated novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). He wrote remarkable fairy tales for adults, such as ‘Der Ritter Blaubart’ (‘The Knight Bluebeard’, 1911), ‘Vom Hinzel und dem wilden Lenchen’ (‘About Hinzel and the wild Lenchen’, 1917), and ‘Märchen von der Technik’ (‘Fairy Tale of Technology’, 1935). In his famous ‘Märchen vom Materialismus’ (‘Fairy Tale of Materialism’, 1948) Döblin illustrated the disastrous consequences of Demokrit's materialistic nuclear theory.
Bettina Kümmerling‐Meibauer
Bibliography
Kümmerling‐Meibauer, Bettina, Die Kunstmärchen von Hofmannsthal, Musil und Döblin (1991).
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