Siblings - Brigitte Reimann communication & design Strega is a modern gothic

Strega is a modern gothic story of nine young women on the cusp of inheriting society’s submission to violence

While their reflections represent a similar strata of art worker in terms of background

at the edge of the Carpathians

this is essential reading for anyone interested in the real and imagined escape routes from capitalism

Siblings - Brigitte Reimann communication & design Strega is a modern gothic1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth a young painter the GDR is her generations chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression. Separating them is the ever wider chasm of the Party line; over them loom the twin spectres of opportunity and fear, and the shadow of their defector brother Konrad. In prose as bold as a scarlet paint stroke,