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The German novelist Heinrich Mann was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1871, the older brother of the novelist Thomas Mann. Heinrich Mann was a socially committed writer and he was forced into exile under the Nazis. Heinrich Mann died in Santa Monica, California in 1950.

Alfred Döblin was a German writer and physician. Living in Berlin since 1889, he studied medicine at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau, specializing in neurology and psychiatry. While working in his own practice in Berlin-Kreuzberg after 1911, he connected with artists and intellectuals and embarked on a literary career. He moved with his family to Paris, gained citizenship in 1936, and wrote counterpropaganda for the French ministry along with French Germanists. In 1940, he spent time at a refugee camp in Mende after the Germans invaded France. Later that year, he sailed for the United States, settling in Los Angeles. After the war, he returned to Europe, jumping from Baden-Baden in Germany to Paris, France. Alfred Döblin died in Emmendingen, Germany in 1957.

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Heinrich Mann and Alfred Doeblin : dining at the Weltwirtschaftskonferenz in Berlin, Leo Baeck Institute, F 12971.