Die polnischen und die jüdischen Realitäten als Erinnerungsorte in dem Reisebericht von Alfred Döblin Reise in Polen

Beata Kołodziejczyk-Mróz; Piotr Majcher

doi:10.25167/pg.5220

Published: 2023-07-18

No. 12 (2023)

Polish and Jewish realities as places of memory in Alfred Döblin’s travel report Reise in Polen

Beata Kołodziejczyk-Mróz

, Piotr Majcher

Germanistische Werkstatt

Section: Literary Studies

https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.5220

Abstract

In 1924, Alfred Döblin traveled to Poland. During his stay, this German author of Jewish origin, hitherto unknown in Poland, visited among others Warsaw, Vilnius, Cracow, Lvov, Lodz and Lublin. The literary result of Döblin’s visit to Poland is the work Journey to Poland, in which he depicts the experiences he gathered. Döblin portrays two parallel worlds: Polish and Jewish. The purpose of this article is to present this Polish-Jewish reality from Alfred Döblin’s perspective with a special focus on Krakow, and to show how the visit to Poland influenced the German author’s biography.

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Alfred Döblin, travel account, Poland, Cracow, Polish-Jewish reality

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Kołodziejczyk-Mróz, B., & Majcher, P. (2023). Polish and Jewish realities as places of memory in Alfred Döblin’s travel report Reise in Polen. Germanistische Werkstatt, (12), 67–76. https://doi.org/10.25167/pg.5220

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