Alfred Döblin

Alfred Döblin was born on Aug 10, 1878 in Poland]. Alfred Döblin's big-screen debut came with Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf directed by Phil Jutzi in 1931.

German novelist Alfred Doblin was born in Stettin, Germany, in 1888. When he was ten years old his family moved to Berlin, and Alfred later attended Berlin and Freiburg universities, where he studied medicine. He received his MD degree in 1905 and was hired by a newspaper in Regensburg as a correspondent. By this time he had already written two novels (only one of which was published, and that one not until 1919). His first published works were short stories published in a local magazine in 1904.