Franziska Linkerhand

Brigita Reimann is a writer from the GDR. Post-war Germany, the tragic division of the country into two parts, a new generation of young people who received from their parents a terrible legacy—and all of this has been absorbed into the novella “Entering into Everyday Life,” written in the spirit of young adult, and into the novel “Franciska Linkerhand.”

Ben is Franciska’s love of a lifetime; she tells him everything about herself. But Ben doesn’t exist. He is just an image that Franciska projects onto the people she travels with. Architecture is another passion of the girl. She wants to build a new city. She wants to design apartment blocks with cozy apartments and hopes they won’t turn into cells with televisions. The search for the love of her life and her love for architecture intertwine in one novel. The reader is swept into the whirlpool of fate of one complicated heroine.

This story is told in two voices: Franciska’s voice and the author’s voice. They interrupt each other, complement each other, and lead the reader from one story to another. Brigitte Reimann worked for ten years on her most famous novel, “Franciska Linkerhand.” However, the final chapter remained unfinished. The writer died at thirty-nine from breast cancer.