Brigitte Reimann

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Brigitte Reimann (1966)
Herbert Warnke (left) awards the FDGB Art Prize for Literature to Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann (1961)

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

life and work

Brigitte Reimann was born on July 21, 1933 as the daughter of the banker Willi Reimann (1904–1990) and his wife Elisabeth (1905–1992) as the eldest of four siblings - Ludwig (* 1934), Ulrich (* 1941) and Dorothea (* 1943 ) - born in Burg (near Magdeburg) . At the age of 14 she fell ill with polio , had to spend six months in an isolation ward and during this time decided to become a writer. After graduating from high school in 1951, she first worked as a teacher. In 1953 she married Günter Domnik; this marriage ended in divorce in 1958.

As a writer, she was committed to the Bitterfelder Weg in her early work , according to whose guidelines authors should try to establish closer contact with the people by working in industrial companies. Reimann also initially had a positive view of the style of socialist realism propagated by the GDR regime , and Walter Ulbricht appointed the author to the youth commission at the central committee of the SED . Over time, however, not only her political stance changed, but also Brigitte Reimann's literary aspirations, who increasingly experimented with forms of associative and subjective narration , especially in her extensive fragment of the novel Franziska Linkerhand (1974) , which was published posthumously .

Memorial plaque on Reimann's house in Hoyerswerda

In 1960 she moved to Hoyerswerda , where she lived until 1968. During the years in Hoyerswerda, she worked in the Schwarze Pumpe combine . As a result of this activity, she wrote the short novel Arrival in Everyday Life in 1961 , which deals with the experiences of three high school graduates in a workers' brigade. The book was a great success and gave the so-called arrival literature its name. During this time (1959–1964) Reimann was married to the writer Siegfried Pitschmann (1930–2002), with whom they created several joint works. For her story Die Geschwister (1963), which deals with the topic of fleeing to the West, Reimann received the renowned Heinrich Mann Prize in 1965 . From 1964 to 1970 she was married to Hans (Jon) Kerschek. Brigitte Reimann maintained a lively discursive exchange with fellow authors such as Wolfgang Schreyer , Georg Piltz , Christa Wolf , Max Walter Schulz , Reiner Kunze , Günter de Bruyn , Margarete Neumann and Helmut Sakowski .

From 1968 she lived in Neubrandenburg , where she became friends with the radio journalist Juergen Schulz from 1969, married the doctor Rudolf Burgartz (1943-2015) here in 1971 and worked on her main work Franziska Linkerhand , although she was severely impaired by cancer in the last years of her life where she finally died in February 1973 at the age of 39 in the Robert-Rössle-Klink in Berlin-Buch. In 1991 the urn grave of the author from Burg - here she was buried after her death - was transferred to the cemetery in Oranienbaum , where the parents Elisabeth and Willi are buried. As the family gave up the burial site, the urn was returned to Burg in July 2019.

The novel Franziska Linkerhand

Brigitte Reimann left the novel Franziska Linkerhand unfinished. An abridged version of the book was published in the GDR in 1974. A complete edition of the book based on the surviving typescript was published in 1998. Withold Bonner's afterword deals in detail with the deviations between the typescript and the 1974 edition. From this it can be seen that about 4% of the entire text was deleted in the first edition, including many passages that dealt critically with the GDR. In 1981 the DEFA film Our Short Life was shot and performed based on the motifs of the novel.

Quote - about Brigitte Reimann

"I can't remember reading a woman's book in German, in which the longing for love was shown with such sensuality and intensity."

- Marcel Reich-Ranicki : in the literary quartet of ZDF about Brigitte Reimann's 1997/1998 volumes with her diaries

Posthumous honors

Sculpture The great reclining figure by Thomas Reimann as a homage in the Hoyerswerda city ​​park

Brigitte Reimann received numerous honors posthumously on the occasion of her 70th birthday in 2003. Among other things, the city library in Hoyerswerda was named after her and a Brigitte Reimann memorial was set up in Neubrandenburg . The city library of her hometown Burg has had her name since February 20, 1986. In 2004, Reimann's life was filmed in the television production Hunger auf Leben with Martina Gedeck in the lead role.

The Brigitte Reimann Year began in Burg on February 21, 2013, during which the sculpture The Great Reclining Legend was created for her and inaugurated on July 21, 2013 on the occasion of her 80th birthday in the Hoyerswerda Central Park .

Since 2016 there has been a Brigitte-Reimann-Promenade along the Ihle with an information board. A memorial plaque has been attached to the site of the birthplace that was demolished in 2017.

Awards

Works

Publications during his lifetime

Published posthumously

Audio books

Theater adaptations

Film adaptations

Radio play and feature

  • 1985: Franziska Linkerhand, architect or scenes from a woman's life . A two-part episode (55 min. And 48 min.), Radio play adaptation: Hans Bräunlich , director: Walter Niklaus (GDR radio)
  • 2013: The Unfinished - The Writer Brigitte Reimann , Feature by Inès Burdow, with Ludwig and Ulrich Reimann, Irmgard Weinhofen, Wolfgang Schreyer , Martin Schmidt, Juergen Schulz , Director: Nikolai von Koslowski , 59 minutes, MDR Figaro

Settings

  • 2009: left hand. Opera based on motifs from the novel Franziska Linkerhand. By Andrea Heuser (libretto) and Moritz Eggert (music). Premiere Hoyerswerda / Görlitz (Director: Sebastian Ritschel), May 2009.

Awards

literature

  • Matthias Aumüller: Brigitte Reimann in Neubrandenburg. Morio, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-945424-55-1 .
  • Margrid Bircken, Heide Hampel (Ed.): Brigitte Reimann - A biography in pictures. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02582-3 .
  • Heide Hampel:  Reimann, Brigitte. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 334 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heide Hampel (Ed.): Who wrote Franziska Linkerhand? - Brigitte Reimann 1933–1973 - questions about person and work. Literature Center Neubrandenburg e. V., Neubrandenburg 1998.
  • Dorothea von Törne : Brigitte Reimann - Simply really live. Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-7466-1652-2 .
  • Sabine Ranzinger: And yet we always dreamed of it. Siegfried Pitschmann on living, loving and working with Brigitte Reimann. Audio book. 1998.
  • Kunstverein Hoyerswerda: Brigitte Reimann - Walk through Hoyerswerda. 2003, ISBN 3-9808957-1-8 .
  • Matthias Braun: Books were her everyday life, writing was her life. Brigitte Reimann in the mirror of the Stasi files. In: Deutschland-Archiv , Vol. 38, 2005, 4, pp. 625-633, ISSN  0012-1428 (online) .
  • Barbara Wiesener: About the pale princess who kidnapped a purple horse across the sky - the utopian in Brigitte Reimann's work. Univ. Diss. Dr. phil., Potsdam 2003.
  • Helene and Martin Schmidt: Brigitte Reimann - encounters and memories. 2006.
  • Kunstverein Hoyerswerda, Helene and Martin Schmidt: What I have on my mind - encounters with Brigitte Reimann - contemporary witnesses report. 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808957-2-9 .
  • Christina Müller: The step through the frame. Image and femininity myth in Brigitte Reimann's work. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89528-920-0 .
  • Leonore Krenzlin , Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Reimann, Brigitte . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Christina Onnasch and Angelika Fischer: Brigitte Reimann's life paths. Edition AB Fischer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-937434-48-3 .
  • Kristina Stella (Ed.): "Would have been nice!" The correspondence between Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann. 2nd Edition. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-975-0 .
  • Carsten Gansel , Kristina Stella (Ed.): I would really like to be a hero. The correspondence / Brigitte Reimann / Wolfgang Schreyer , OKAPI, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9816011-2-1 .
  • Kristina Stella: Brigitte Reimann. Annotated bibliography and catalog raisonné. Two volumes. Part A: Primary literature (= bibliography on German literary history . Volume 22). Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8498-1080-1 .

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Reimann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Drescher in the new edition 1998 by Franziska Linkerhand , p. 633, 15. Zvo
  2. ↑ see: Would have been nice. The correspondence between Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann, ed. K. Stella, Bielefeld 2013.
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Table of contents at the head office for educational media on the Internet (for)
  5. ^ Withold Bonner: From the typescript to the print version. Epilogue to the novel Franziska Linkerhand, Berlin 1998, pp. 606–632.
  6. ^ The Literary Quartet , broadcast by ZDF on April 24, 1998.
  7. ↑ People's Voice Castle
  8. ↑ Brigitte Reimann sign revealed in Hoyerswerda. In: sächsische.de . July 21, 2013, accessed November 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ [2]
  10. ↑ Wiesener, p. 117, 15. Zvo
  11. ↑ Wiesener, p. 128, 6th Zvu
  12. ^ Original broadcast: August 3, 1960, Radio DDR I; Reprinted in: Die Reihe, no. 50; 60 pages, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 1960
  13. ^ Original broadcast: November 17, 1960, Berliner Rundfunk; Reprinted in: Hörspieljahrbuch 1, Henschel-Verlag Berlin 1960, pp. 65–93
  14. ↑ First broadcast: March 20, 1970, 2nd program of the DFF, after Manfred Krug's departure, the film was banned in 1977 and in 1984 the original and all copies were destroyed.
  15. ↑ Live, write, argue, love. In: FAZ , July 19, 2013, p. 36.
  16. ↑ Jochen Hieber: Excursions into the anarchy. Audiobook of the month April: Brigitte Reimann's diaries . In: FAZ , April 10, 2000, p. 57.
  17. ↑ Christel Berger: Longings, disappointments . (Review) In: Neues Deutschland , January 15, 2015, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Reimann, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle (near Magdeburg)
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1973
Place of death East Berlin