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Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty.
Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.
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"Blood Brothers paint a picture of the seemier side of the Weimar Republic in 1930 or so. This is not the Berlin of the Kufurstendamm with it's elegant clubs and theatres nor the middle class Berlin. This is the gritty Berlin of the slums, unemployment, inflation and the fallout from the Versailles Treaty. A group of late teenage boys banded together by their misery, lack of homes and hunger are forced to form a gang, the Blood Brothers, and learn to survive by petty and not so petty crime and selling their bodies and souls to eat. It is a cruel system that has no place other than harsh penal institutions for lost teens with little hope of rehabilitation and redemption. The writer etches the portraits and events with pen and ink, a sparsity of style akin to a wood block print. These are the young men, who by will be, out of desperation and hideous promises, the Brown Shirts to come. A quick and intriguing read. Consider listening to Weill and Brecht in the background and hang up a painting of Egon Schiele."
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Blood Brothers Ernst Haffner Michael Hofmann Books Reviews :
Blood Brothers Ernst Haffner Michael Hofmann Books Reviews
- Blood Brothers paint a picture of the seemier side of the Weimar Republic in 1930 or so. This is not the Berlin of the Kufurstendamm with it's elegant clubs and theatres nor the middle class Berlin. This is the gritty Berlin of the slums, unemployment, inflation and the fallout from the Versailles Treaty. A group of late teenage boys banded together by their misery, lack of homes and hunger are forced to form a gang, the Blood Brothers, and learn to survive by petty and not so petty crime and selling their bodies and souls to eat. It is a cruel system that has no place other than harsh penal institutions for lost teens with little hope of rehabilitation and redemption. The writer etches the portraits and events with pen and ink, a sparsity of style akin to a wood block print. These are the young men, who by will be, out of desperation and hideous promises, the Brown Shirts to come. A quick and intriguing read. Consider listening to Weill and Brecht in the background and hang up a painting of Egon Schiele.
- This is fascinating look at the underclass of the Weimar Republic. It was banned by the Nazis. The author, alas, went missing during the war and was apparently never heard from again. This is a very different look at pre-war Berlin from what we know about the cabaret scene.
- A well written book that explores a difficult subject in an overlooked place and time. Street gangs have been around since Ancient Rome , sometimes the only differences are those of place and time. This book does an excellent job of showing us sordid underbelly of Weimar Berlin and the struggle for survival amongst its least respected citizens. Often raw, always frank, no punches are pulled.
- A journalistic style fiction picture of Wiemar Germany's impersonal society as it collapsed, and the reaction of disaffected youth. The kind of realism that Warner Brothers tried to capture in film.
- Fascinating book -- anticipates "Last Exit To Brooklyn" and so many other dark, street-wise novels to come. Captures the time and place and serves as an antidote to Cabaret. There's a touch of Bruno Schulz in the details. Thanks to Other Press for bravely republishing this great work. Wish Haffner had survived to write others.
- This is a powerful book. It goes along with Doblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz."
It's dirty. Sad. And inevitable. - An outstanding portrait of youth gangs in Berlin just before Hitler came to power.
- as a recon of ordinary underworld life in nazi Berlin it is full of antisemitic cliches, probably that was compulsory in order for any book in order to be published as it was in 1935, we will never know as the author just faded during WW2. But there some interesting hints about street names, clubs, bars and cabarets for those interesting in life in Berlin during the Weimar years and the early thirties.
