'''Ernst Haffner''' was a German social worker, journalist, and novelist whose only known novel, ''Blood Brothers'', originally titled “Jugend auf der Landstrasse Berlin” (“Youth on the Road to Berlin”), was published in 1932 to critical acclaim by Bruno Cassirer and banned by the Nazis one year later. Sometime over the course of World War II, all traces of Haffner were lost, including any professional and personal records that may have helped to indicate what led to his disappearance. There is just a single entry for him in the Berlin registry, where Haffner lived between 1925 and 1933. At the end of the 1930s, it is documented that he was summoned to appear at the Reich Chamber of Literature, after which the details of his life remain unknown.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim |newspaper=The New York Times |first=William |last=Grimes |date=13 February 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/books/a-gritty-weimar-portrait-of-youth-gangs-restored-to-renewed-acclaim.html|access-date=2015-02-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=German publishing sensation haunted by riddle of vanished author |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/03/german-publishing-blutsbruder-riddle-vanished-author |date=3 October 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2015-02-14|first=Philip|last=Oltermann}}</ref>
== Work == Published in the last year before Hitler's rise to power, ''Blood Brothers'' received a positive review by famed sociologist and philosopher Siegfried Kracauer in the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' upon publication.
The book was subject to the 1933 Nazi book burnings.
''Blood Brothers'', titled ''Blutsbrüder'' in German, was reissued in 2013 by the German publishing house Metrolit Verlag (Berlin) {{ISBN|9783849300685}}. The first English edition, titled ''Blood Brothers'', translated by Michael Hofmann was published in 2015.<ref>[http://www.otherpress.com/books/blood-brothers/ Publisher's listing of book]</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kids on the Berlin Road |first=Amanda |last=DeMarco |date=March 6, 2015 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-blood-brothers-by-ernst-haffner-1425679832 |access-date=2015-04-05}} Book Review</ref>
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== External links == * {{cite news |title=This mix of hard and soft, I loved that |url=http://www.exberliner.com/culture/this-mix-of-hard-and-soft-i-loved-that/ |publisher=Exberliner |first=Sara |last=Wilde |date=6 September 2013 |access-date=2015-02-14 |archive-date=2015-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103092429/http://www.exberliner.com/culture/this-mix-of-hard-and-soft-i-loved-that/ |url-status=dead }} English language magazine published in Berlin. * {{cite news |publisher=Perlentaucher |url=http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/ernst-haffner/blutsbrueder.html |title=Ernst Haffner: Blutsbrüder |access-date=2015-02-14}} German online culture magazine article (in German). * {{cite news |title=Review: Ernst Haffner's Blood Brothers |publisher=Dialog International |date=15 November 2014 |url=http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2014/11/review-ernst-haffners-blood-brothers.html |access-date=2015-02-14}} German-American Opinion: Politics and Culture blog (in English).
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