Career
Brigitte Reimann 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.
After a miscarriage in 1954, Reimann attempted suicide.
She received the Heinrich Mann prize in 1964. When troops of the Warsaw Pact states invaded the ČSoviet Socialist Republic on 20 August 1968 as a reaction to liberalisations during the Prague Spring, Reimann refused to sign the declaration by the East German Writers" Association approving of the measure.
On 22 February 1973, Brigitte Reimann died of cancer at the age of 39.
