Post vom schwarzen Schaf

"You are the best family in the world" - Brigitte Reimann's unpublished sibling letters. Brigitte Reimann always wanted to write about her siblings. Their conflicts, frictions, energy seemed to her symptomatic of the young generation that set out to realize their ideals in the 1960s. Because hardly anyone had a telephone at the time, letters went back and forth between Rostock, Hoyerswerda and Hamburg: encouragement, confessions, "women's stuff". Especially with Lutz, who had fled to the West, she argued bitterly about politics. At the end of her life, when she ironically saw herself as the "black sheep" of the family - childless, suffering from cancer, the novel unfinished - it was the siblings who gave her courage. Now the letters of brothers and sisters combine to create a German-German family novel centered on an extraordinary writer. "Jon had re.