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Brigitte Reimann

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Brigitte Reimann

Germany

Brigitte Reimann (1933–73) was a German teacher and writer. Her novel Ankunft im Alltag is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism. She received the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1964.

Articles by Brigitte Reimann

A 1960s black and white photograph of a street in Rostock, East Germany

FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Five O’Clock Train to Rostock

By Brigitte Reimann

I can still hear her faltering voice today. My mother must have been the only one who had known what Konrad was planning.

Translated from German by Lucy Jones