Brigitte Reimann (born 21 July 1933, Burg bei Magdeburg, d. 22 February 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel Franziska Linkerhand.

[4][5] In 1960, she began working at the brown coal mine Schwarze Pumpe, where she and her second husband Siegfried Pitschmann headed a circle of writing workers.

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.

[8] When troops of the Warsaw Pact states invaded the ČSSR 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 (DSV) approving of the measure.

[1] Her 1963 novel, Siblings (Die Geschwister), was first published in Italian in 2013 (by Monica Pesetti for Voland)[10] and in English in February 2023 for Penguin.