Abstract
At the end her 1974 novel Life and Adventures Trobadora Beatrice As Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura, the GDR writer Irmtraud Morgner creates a utopian vision a socialist community in which all problems a really-existing socialism seem to have been solved. There is no longer a shortage apartments, the VEB Hochbau surpasses its production plans, and the renters man and woman take their positions to pull weeds in front their apartment complex. On Sundays, the Interflug planes spread Beatrice's golden overhead, and proletarian solidarity is even able to overcome the barriers the traditional family. This is all possible because of course, this country is a land miracles.' Aside from the apparent irony in this utopian vision, these last words Life and Adventures are precisely the same as the opening sentence the novel. Instead being able to enjoy the utopian vision at the end, the reader is led back to the beginning the novel, to start reading again. By refusing to give the reader a clear end to her story, Morgner rejects traditional notions utopian vision as a type counter-reality and instead constructs her utopia as a
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