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Alfred Döblin wrote his early story Astralia while he prepared his medical dissertation about the Korsakoff’s psychosis in Freiburg 1904. The short narrative about a small man, a private scholar, who sees himself as a visionary and medium, whereas other people regard him as an insane or drunk person, can be read as a pre-exercise of the popular novella Die Ermordung einer Butterblume. The story combines two virulent discourses of the turn of the century: then current research about the neurological and psychiatric consequences of alcohol abuse like memory loss (and the neurological as well as poetological question, how memory and creativity works) - and on the other hand the ideas and practice of occultism and spiritualism. These two concurring discourses find their synthesis in this sarcastic as well as empathic pre-expressionistic story.

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»Eines Tages aber wird ein Wunder geschehen«: Alfred Döblins Erzählung Astralia als Gelehrtensatire, literarische Studie zu Paranoia und Theosophie sowie als Prätext von Ermordung einer Butterblume