Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine

Wadzek's Struggle with the Steam Turbine

Cover of the first edition
Author	Alfred Döblin
Original title	Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine
Language	German
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Fischer Verlag
Publication date	1918
Publication place	Germany
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine (Wadzek's Struggle with the Steam Turbine) is a 1918 comic novel by the German author Alfred Döblin. Set in Berlin, it narrates the futile and often delusional struggle of the eponymous industrialist Wadzek against Rommel, his more powerful competitor. In its narrative technique and its refusal to psychologize its characters, as well as in its vivid evocations of Berlin as a modern metropolis, Wadzeks Kampf mit der Dampfturbine has been read as a precursor to Döblin's better-known 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz.^[1]