Woman in the Pillory

Heart-wrenching… What starts as a classic love story soon turns into a condemnation of the horrors of armed conflict… A sorrowfully truthful portrait of how life is ruined by war, and with it Brigitte Reimann proves she’s a writer who deserves to be remembered * Sunday Times *The story twists and twists again, right up to the perfectly satisfying ending – John Self * Guardian *

Brigitte Reimann (Author)

Brigitte Reimann (1933-1973) was among East Germany’s most significant writers. Like her heroines, she was spirited and outspoken, addressing issues and sensibilities otherwise repressed in the GDR. She believed passionately in socialism, yet never joined the party; stayed with her second husband, yet pursued a series of affairs. Her stated aim was to live ‘thirty wild years instead of seventy well-behaved ones’. In 1960, her brother left for the West and she began writing Siblings. She died from cancer at the age of thirty-nine, a celebrated writer and cult figure.

Lucy Jones (Translator)

Lucy Jones is a British translator based in Berlin. She has translated the work of Anke Stelling and Ronald M. Schernikau, among others, and was runner-up in the Schlegel-Tieck Prize in 2023 for her translation of Die Geschwister (Siblings) by Brigitte Reimann. Her own writing has appeared in SAND, Pigeon Pages NYC, LitroMag and others.

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