In 1951 she married the Germanist and essayist Gerhard Wolf; they have two daughters, Annette and Katrin. After receiving her degree with a thesis on problems of realism in the work of Hans Fallada, she worked as a technical assistant for the East German Writers' Union, as a reader for the Neues Leben publishing house in East Berlin, and as an editor of the periodical
Neue Deutsche Literatur. From 1959 to 1962 she was a reader for the Mitteldeutscher Verlag in Halle, where she also worked in a boxcar factory. In 1962 she moved to Kleinmachnow, near Berlin, and turned to writing full time. She traveled widely in Europe, visited the Soviet Union, and made her first trip to the United States in 1974. In 1976 she and her husband moved to East Berlin; the same year she joined other prominent East German writers in signing a petition protesting the revocation of citizenship of the poet/singer Wolf Biermann. The publication of
Was bleibt: Erzahlung (1990) shortly after the reunification of East and West Germany precipitated an intense debate over the significance and role of East German literature, in which Wolf was severely criticized.
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