Brigitte Reimann

Brigitte Reimann ( born July 21, 1933, Burg (near Magdeburg ), † February 20, 1973 in East Berlin) was a German writer.

Life

Brigitte Reimann was born on July 21, 1933, Burg (near Magdeburg ). After graduation she worked as a teacher in 1955 she began to write. As a writer, she was committed to the Bitterfeld Way in their early work, authors should try after its guidelines to make by working in industrial establishments closer contact with people. Also propagated by the GDR regime style of Socialist Realism was initially positive about Reimann, and Walter Ulbricht called the author in the Youth Commission of the Central Committee of the SED. Over time, however, not only changed its policy stance, but also the literary Brigitte Reimann's claim that reinforces experimented with forms of associative and subjective narration in particular in its extensive posthumously published unfinished novel Franziska Left Hand (1974).

In 1960 she moved to Hoyerswerda, where she lived until 1968. During the years in Hoyerswerda she worked at the Schwarze Pumpe. From this activity out she wrote the 1961 short novel arrival in everyday life, which deals with the experiences of three high school seniors in a working brigade. The book was a great success and gave the so-called arrival literature the name. Reimann was in this period ( 1959-1964 ) married in second marriage with the writer Siegfried Pitsch man with whom she created several joint works. For her story, the siblings (1963 ), which deals with the theme of escape to the West, Reimann received in 1965 the prestigious Heinrich Mann Prize. From 1968 she lived in Neubrandenburg, working on her main work Franziska Left hand, although she was strongly impaired in their last years of life through a cancer, where they eventually died in February 1973. Matthias Biskupek characterized the author, who was four times married, as follows: " Reimann was a loving wife, who was blessed with a lot of language understanding, imagination and self-doubt, which was not half emancipated as feminists wish that gushed from the Soviet Union and the respective lovers who could not deal particularly with money and appreciate the little happiness in the GDR quite knew. relations good, plenty of alcohol, inaugurated circles of friends "

Posthumous honors

Brigitte Reimann learned many honors posthumously on the occasion of her 70th birthday in 2003. Among other things, the city's library was named after her and furnished in Neubrandenburg a Brigitte Reimann Memorial in Hoyerswerda. The city library of her home town castle bears her name since 20th February 1986. 2004 Reimann's life in television production hunger was filmed on life with Martina Gedeck in the lead role. On February 21, 2013 started in the castle Brigitte Reimann year, in the course of the sculpture " The large Reclining Figure" created for them, and on July 21, 2013 on the occasion of her 80th birthday in Hoyerswerdaer Central Park was inaugurated.

Awards

Works

Publications during his lifetime

Published posthumously

The novel Franziska Left Hand

The novel Franziska Left hand left Brigitte Reimann unfinished. Some literary scholars harbored the suspicion that this work is partially modified before publication in 1974 on behalf of SED functionaries and some parts had been deleted. It is, however, denied that it was pointed in the postscript of the GDR issue on some careful cuts. In 1981, the DEFA film was filmed and performed our short life on motifs of the novel. A published after the traditional typescript complete edition of the book appeared in 1998. The epilogue of Withold Bonner deals in detail with the differences between the typescript and the issue of 1974. Fact about 4 % of the whole text had been removed, including many passages that are critical to apart sat with the GDR.

Audiobooks

  • 2000: I regret nothing - Diaries 1955-1963. ( Read by Jutta Hoffmann. )
  • 2000: Everything tastes like goodbye - Diaries 1964-1970. ( Read by Jutta Hoffmann. )
  • 2004: I'm so hungry for life - acoustic portrait. ( Diary excerpts and passages from Franziska Left Hand. )
  • 2006: Franziska Left Hand. ( Read by Johanna Wokalek )

Films

Musical settings

  • 2009: Left hand. Opera based on motifs of the novel Franziska Left Hand. By Andrea Heuser ( libretto ) and Moritz Eggert ( music). UA Hoyerswerda / Görlitz ( Director: Sebastian Ritschel ), May 2009.
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