"Who is this woman? Her Stasi files describe Uta as "tall", "slim", "very intelligent, sometimes also very sophisticated". They call her "manly" and note that she "smokes a lot and also consumes a lot of alcohol". But is that all there is to it? How can you describe a person full of hope and lust who gets caught up in the contradictions of her time? Targeted by the Stasi since 1971, she was both perpetrator and victim. In Clemens Böckmann's disturbing novel, he, she and the files tell a life together. There is no truth about the GDR or the exploitation of women - but there is attention for a person forgotten by everyone." (publisher)

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