Blutsbrüder

A sensation. Der Tagesspiegel "Berlin, Berlin ... The name sounds to him like music. As if a laid table and a soft bed were waiting for Willi Kludas right in Berlin." In the early 1930s, thousands of young people lived on the streets in Berlin and other German cities due to precarious economic conditions. They worked as day laborers and errand boys, but often their paths led them into crime or prostitution. They found refuge, a bit of security, and social warmth in self-organized groups. They gathered in decommissioned factory barracks, drank, danced, and forgot for a moment the misery that surrounded them daily. Poetically and with a deeply sad realism, Ernst Haffner follows the youth gang "Blood Brothers," allowing the reader to partake in their often brutal struggle for survival and depicting their unbridled freedom.