IT IS a regrettable fact in the publishing world that some books get the reputation of being unpublishable. Either they are too long or too short or too prolix or simply reader-proof. James Joyce’s ...

Director Burhan Qurbani updates Alfred Doblin’s classic novel as a modern-day gangster story starring Guinea-Bissau actor Welket Bungue and Albrecht Schuch in 'Berlin Alexanderplatz.' By Deborah Young ...

In a radical departure, the latest cinema adaptation of Alfred Döblin's great Weimar-era novel updates the story with an African refugee as the protagonist. In Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin ...

Alfred Döblin’s 1929 masterpiece “Berlin Alexanderplatz” opens as Franz Biberkopf is released from prison, having served four years for killing his girlfriend. Determined to make an honest living, he ...

In a bold move that will call upon its viewers to totally immerse themselves in the seamier side of life in late-1920s Germany, WTTW-Ch. 11 is devoting much of its late-night April programming to a ...

When Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 14-part miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz aired on German public television in 1980, audiences complained they couldn't see anything in its murky nocturnal scenes. And ...

I was dozing in front of the TV when I lifted one eyelid to see Rachel Maddow interviewing a man with a trim beard and a startling name: Alfred Doblin. They were discussing Chris Christie and the ...

The twin pillars of Alfred Döblin’s epochal 480-page 1929 German-language novel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deeply influential 15-hour miniseries, first broadcast in 1980, together create an ...

Alfred Doblin’s 1929 novel ’Berlin Alexanderplatz’ was a seminal work that cast its lot in with the German underclass just when the fast-growing Nazi party was elaborating the myth of the master race.