Born on 10th August 1878 in Stettin
Died on 28th June 1957 in Emmendingen
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| 1900 - 1905 |
Studies medicine in Berlin and Freiburg
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| 1911 | |
General practitioner in a poor district of Berlin
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| 1914 - 1918 | |
Military doctor during the First World War |
| 1912 - 1920 | |
First publications Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (Murder of a Buttercup) and Die drei Sprünge des Wang-Lun (The Three Leaps of Wang-Lun) (1915), Wadzek’s Kampf mit der Dampfturbine (Wadzek’s Battle with the Steam Turbine) (1918), Wallenstein (1920)
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| 1929 |
His epic city novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is released and causes a sensation
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| 1933 |
Döblin leaves the Writers section of the Prussian Academy of the Arts and emigrates first to France and then the USA
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| 1938 |
His revolutionary novel November 1918 comes out but Döblin does not succeed in finding himself an American publisher
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| 1946 |
Returns to Germany
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| 1954 |
Receives literary prize from the Academy of Science, Humanities and Literature in Mainz
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