Christa Reinig
In 1964, writer Christa Reinig left the GDR to attend an award ceremony in West Germany and never returned. On her desk at the Märkisches Museum, reconstructed here, she left nothing but an X-ray of her spine, which was curved due to Bechterew's disease. ‘Inside, she was more upright,’ critic Wulf Segebrecht aptly remarked in 1996 on her 70th birthday. The X-ray on the desk represents the pointed irony of a resistant woman who showed backbone and did not allow herself to be bent despite a publication ban in the GDR that had been in place since 1951.