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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.
Blood Brothers, by Ernst Haffner - Amazon Sales Rank: #538304 in Books
- Brand: Haffner, Ernst/ Hofmann, Michael (TRN)/ Arnold, Herbert A. (INT)
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x .56" w x 5.52" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Blood Brothers, by Ernst Haffner Review “Haffner’s project is journalistic, to portray destitution and criminality without the false sparkle of glamour—though Berlin is not half as boring as he (coyly) claims. The author was a social worker and a journalist, and his skill in portraiture and the depiction of a social milieu is evident… The characters are engaging, and multidimensional. You care what happens to them.” —The Wall Street Journal“[Haffner] has the eye of a documentarian and a keen interest in particulars…” —The New York Times"Blood Brothers is a remarkable portrait, a lively, heartbreaking close-up, of the scrappy desperate lives of Berlin’s homeless teenage boys in 1932. It deserves to sit on the shelf next to Christopher Isherwood’s classic I Am A Camera which inspired the stage and film musical Cabaret...When you finish, you’ll be haunted." —The Boston Herald Hollywood & Mine Blog"[W]hat an accomplished book...Haffner’s novel would be compelling enough for the fact that it presents readers with unique insights into daily life during the final days of the Weimar Republic, but it’s his bold insistence on presenting his subject’s lives in such a matter-of-fact way that makes Blood Brothers truly standout as an interesting, valuable piece of unforgettable literature." —Typographical Era"[B]rilliantly translated into English by Michael Hofmann...Blood Brothers shocks because of its relevance to too much of the world we observe around us today." —CounterPunch.org"Blood Brothers remains relevant to us today. [Haffner's] novel remains, salvaged from the wreckage of history, insistent in its message that all our endless, merciless cities—and towns and suburbs and wherever else our desperate lives play out—are too much for anyone on their own." —Words Without Borders"[R]emarkable...Blood Brothers is an enthralling and significant novel, authentic in its gritty documentary detail, dispassionate yet empathic in its characterisation and starkly objective in its portrayal of Berlin’s pre-Nazi social underbelly." —Financial Times“To the small library of classic novels about Berlin before Hitler by the likes of Erich Kästner, Alfred Döblin and Christopher Isherwood we now belatedly welcome Haffner's. Blood Brothers delivers an unflinching yet deeply affecting portrait of life on Berlin's darkest and most desperate streets. Hofmann's translation beautifully captures Haffner's muscular, hardboiled prose.” —Lawrence Douglas, Amherst College, author of The Memory of Judgment and The Vices"The story reveals the illicit, dark and disturbing underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power...This is an important and unflinching classic in the making." —Susan Jaffe, Creative Director, Thurber House“Theodor W. Adorno wrote what is perhaps the most powerful essay demystifying the legend of the "Golden Twenties." Ernst Haffner has written the novel. Beautifully.” —Dr. Eric Jarosinski, founding editor, NeinQuarterly“Haffner’s book stands out for its documentary detail. It opens with a description of the hours-long queues at the labor exchange, and paints a vivid picture of the gang’s initiation ceremonies, drinking rituals, and the glorious satisfaction of hot pea soup on an empty stomach. At the same time, Blood Brothers is plot-driven and told in a simple, straightforward, style.” —The Guardian"Like a karate chop: hard and direct, but true." —Der Spiegel"A real discovery." —Literarische Welt
About the Author Ernst Haffner was a journalist and social worker and his only known novel, Blood Brothers, was published to wide acclaim in 1932 before it was banned by the Nazis one year later. In the 1940s, all records of Haffner disappeared. His fate during World War II remains unknown. Michael Hofmann has translated the work of Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Hans Fallada, and many others. In 2012 he was awarded the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of several books of poems and essays, including Where Have You Been? (2014). He lives in Florida and London.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Jonny needs to dig up his eight fellows from various nooks and crannies to tell them he’s scoped out a cheap billet for the night. Two marks for the whole lot of them. It’s in a warehouse on Brunnenstrasse. For two marks the night-watchman will let them in at ten. But at six o’clock tomorrow morning they’ll have to be on their way again. Straw and large crates you can curl up inside are provided. At half past nine the gang set off. At the stroke of ten, they’re all close to their billet. Three of them are at the gate. The others are waiting nearby in the passage, to nip in as soon as the watchman opens the door. Before they even hear the night-watchman, there’s a furious growling and yapping behind the door: the guard-dog. Then the door is unlocked, and one by one they sneak inside. The watchman locks the door after them. The bitch howls with rage and disappointment. She doesn’t understand her master. Normally she is under orders to go for anyone’s legs, and just now, with this collection of deeply suspicious individuals, she is kept on a short leash. The night-watchman slopes on ahead with the angrily glinting dog. The Blood Brothers bring up the rear after a respectful interval. The door of the low storehouse is unbolted, and Jonny has to put down his two marks. Then the old man goes through all their pockets. He’s looking for matches or lighters. In case one of the scapegraces should get it into his head to smoke in there… With all that straw and dry wood around. That would be a right old firework. The guard dog tried a parting snap at the boys. But the nailed collar reminds her that only non-paying guests were to be shredded. The boys are just finding their way around the dark windowless space when the old man locks them in. The freed dog sniffs crossly at the crack between the floor and the bottom of the door. Just let them try and get out.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. "Betrayal is something that can only be washed clear with blood, and plenty of it." By Mary Whipple At last. A novel recently discovered in Germany but written in 1932, at the end of the Weimar Republic, presents a picture of Berlin as it really was, not as it appears in the sterilized portraits released by Hitler's army and staff beginning a year later, when Hitler officially came to power. Like many other cities recovering from a Depression, Berlin did have its seamy underside, along with the poor, the homeless, the street gangs, and the petty criminals dependent on pickpocketing and small thefts in order to eat. Whole sections of the city were occupied at night by the wandering homeless, including young teens.Ernst Haffner, the journalist who wrote this novel, uses a collection of individualized vignettes, connected by the overriding story of two of the young men, Ludwig and Willi, to show Berlin as it really was. Little is known about Haffner, who, because of his insights into the nature of the lives of the young homeless, might have been a social worker. The book, published in 1932, was well reviewed in Germany for its honesty and its insights, but it was outlawed by Hitler the following year, and virtually every copy was burned in the Nazi book-burnings. Haffner himself vanished in the 1930s.The novel opens on a cold winter day as eight youth, who consider themselves "Blood Brothers," are waiting at a welfare office where it is warm and where they can sleep. They have been up all night, out in the cold, and as the number of people waiting there is large, they can sleep relatively undisturbed. When twenty-one-year-old Jonny arrives with cigarettes, the group, awakened, knows that he has money and that they will get food that day. The author's descriptions are depressingly specific, as each person reflects uncertainty about what tomorrow will bring. Their interdependence is their only survival tool.Gradually, the reader comes to know Ludwig and Willi, who become the main characters, their stories alternating with those of the majority of the gang. Willi has escaped from "the institution," and the unsophisticated Ludwig has fallen for an old scam and ends up in jail, gulled by an older man. When Ludwig and Willi meet up later, their meeting affects their future lives. The fates of other individualized characters from the gang show the fickle nature of fate and the difficulties which groups acting as gangs can create from within: The influence of peer pressure and group action leads to a loss of individuality and sense of responsibility for the actions of the group. Ultimately, Haffner creates a full picture of Berlin's lower life - real, clear, and uncompromising, far different from the Nazi photos of clean-cut, well-pressed blonde youth celebrating the arrival of Hitler. An important and realistic book that gives a fuller picture of life in Germany in the early 1930s.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Dark Side of the Weimar Republic By Anonymous Reviewer 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.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A very good read By Harry 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.
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