1. Brigitte Reimann was the daughter of Willi Reimann and Elisabeth and the oldest of four children.
10 Facts About Brigitte Reimann
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Brigitte Reimann's father was a bank clerk from a family of Cologne burghers.
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Brigitte Reimann decided to become a writer at the age of 14, when she was recovering from polio.
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Brigitte Reimann wrote her first amateur play at the age of 15.
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Brigitte Reimann married a machine fitter when she was 20.
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Brigitte Reimann never joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and was critical of the East German State's involvement in the country's literary movement.
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Brigitte Reimann was a part of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junger Autoren" in which she worked with other young talents such as Martin Selber, Wolfgang Schreyer, Helmut Sakowski, Reiner Kunze and Wolf Dieter Brennecke.
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When troops of the Warsaw Pact states invaded the CSSR on 20 August 1968 as a reaction to liberalisations during the Prague Spring, Brigitte Reimann refused to sign the declaration by the East German Writers' Association approving of the measure.
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On 22 February 1973, Brigitte Reimann suddenly died of cancer at the age of 39 in the Robert-Rossle-Klinik in Berlin, Buch.
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Brigitte Reimann's diaries are well-regarded in Germany 'for their clear-eyed account of life in the GDR.