Döblin’s mainwork, published in 1929, is considered simultaneously as a Bildungsroman and as a modern epos. By following the way of life of the protagonist Franz Biberkopf, we get to know the central square which symbolizes the capital of Germany. The modern metropolis is described through a montage of multiple elements, especially the bars as meeting places and the newspapers, providing an immersion into the social and political atmosphere of the Republic of Weimar, at the time of the big economic crisis of 1929, which at the end conducted the country into dictatorship. In comparison with the costumary daily crimes, in which also the protagonist is involved, are evoqued the crimes in the political sphere. The murder of a young woman is nar...