Franziska Linkerhand
''Franziska Linkerhand'' is a 1974 novel by Brigitte Reimann Brigitte Reimann (born 21 July 1933, Burg bei Magdeburg, d. 22 February 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel ''Franziska Linkerhand''. Life Brigitte Reimann was the daughter of Willi Rei .... During the last ten years of her life Reimann worked at this book. At the time of her death, the last, fifteenth chapter had just been started. In the following year the novel was published nonetheless, although in a heavily censored way. Not until 1998 was the uncensored version published. References External links ''Franziska Linkerhand''(Brigitte Reimann-Gesellschaft e.V.) 1974 German novels Unfinished novels {{1970s-novel-stub ...
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Brigitte Reimann
Brigitte Reimann (born 21 July 1933, Burg bei Magdeburg, d. 22 February 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel ''Franziska Linkerhand''. Life Brigitte Reimann was the daughter of Willi Reimann (1904–1990) and Elisabeth (1905–1992) and the oldest of four children. She wrote her first amateur play at the age of fifteen. In 1950 she was awarded the first prize in an amateur drama competition by the Berlin theater Volksbühne. After graduating with the Abitur, Reimann worked as teacher, bookseller and reporter.Meid, Volker: Reclams Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Autoren, Stuttgart, 2001 Following a miscarriage in 1954, Reimann attempted suicide. In 1960 she started to work at the brown coal mine Schwarze Pumpe, where she and her second husband Siegfried Pitschmann headed a circle of writing workers. There, she wrote the narrative ''Ankunft im Alltag'', which is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism. She received th ...
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