Shadow Women
A novel
Rarely has the fate of women in the GDR been depicted as hauntingly and authentically as in this story of seven women. In 2009, they meet again at the same campsite they stayed at decades ago on the Baltic Sea during a summer camp of the FDJ (»Freie Deutsche Jugend«, »Free German Youth«, the GDR youth organisation). Since then, some of them have moved to the West while others have remained in the former GDR. During their reunion, the past slowly catches up with them: one of the group has betrayed the others, spying on them and even being responsible for sending them to prison. In the end a murder occurs, and there are no more excuses. Tough, emotional, and gripping.
Reinhild Solf, born in Haldensleben, Germany, in 1941, studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule in Berlin. After working in Hannover, Lübeck and Berlin, she was a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus theatre company from 1983 to 1989 before becoming a company member at the Basel Stadttheater. Numerous TV roles followed, among them the four-part miniseries Wallenstein and the adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks. Reinhild Solf lives in Basel, Switzerland, with her husband, director Hans Hollmann.
Rarely has the fate of women in the GDR been depicted as hauntingly and authentically as in this story of seven women. In 2009, they meet again at the same campsite they stayed at decades ago on the Baltic Sea during a summer camp of the FDJ (»Freie Deutsche Jugend«, »Free German Youth«, the GDR youth organisation). Since then, some of them have moved to the West while others have remained in the former GDR. During their reunion, the past slowly catches up with them: one of the group has betrayed the others, spying on them and even being responsible for sending them to prison. In the end a murder occurs, and there are no more excuses. Tough, emotional, and gripping.
Reinhild Solf, born in Haldensleben, Germany, in 1941, studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule in Berlin. After working in Hannover, Lübeck and Berlin, she was a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus theatre company from 1983 to 1989 before becoming a company member at the Basel Stadttheater. Numerous TV roles followed, among them the four-part miniseries Wallenstein and the adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks. Reinhild Solf lives in Basel, Switzerland, with her husband, director Hans Hollmann.
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