Regina Scheer

Regina Scheer (born in 1950) is a German writer and historian.

Professional career

Born in East-Berlin, Scheer studied theatre and cultural studies from 1968 to 1973 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.[1] She was a copywriter at Oktoberklub[2] From 1972 to 1976, she worked as editor of the Freie Deutsche Jugend' student newspaper Forum, and from 1980 to 1990 at the literary magazine Temperamente. Since the Peaceful Revolution, she has worked as a freelance journalist, historian and editor.

Scheer published several books on German-Jewish history and had her first novel Machandel published in 2014.[3]

Awards
  • 2014: Mara-Cassens-Preis
  • 2017: Ver.di-Literaturpreis Berlin-Brandenburg[4]

Publications
  • AHAWAH, das vergessene Haus. Aufbau, Berlin 1992
  • Es gingen Wasser wild über unsere Seele. Aufbau, Berlin 1999
  • Der Umgang mit den Denkmälern. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2003
  • Im Schatten der Sterne. Aufbau, Berlin 2004
  • Wir sind die Liebermanns. Propyläen, Berlin 2006
  • Mausche mi-Dessau Moses Mendelssohn. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2006
  • Den Schwächeren helfen, stark zu sein. Die Schrippenkirche im Berliner Wedding 1882–2007. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-63-7
  • Kurt Tucholsky. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2008
  • Zerbrochene Bilder. Kurt-Tucholsky-Literaturmuseum, Rheinsberg 2011
  • Zerstörte Kindheit und Jugend. Mein Leben und Überleben in Berlin.[5] together with Regina Steinitz, Berlin, 2014, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, ISBN 978-3-942240-16-1.
  • Machandel.
  • After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR. 2021.[6]

References
  1. Regina Scheer, at Aufbau-Verlag
  2. Friederike Freier: Familientreffen vor Publikum, at Horch und Guck
  3. "Roman "Machandel" - Die verschlungenen Lebensgeschichten der DDR" (in German). Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  4. Regina Scheer at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)
  5. Zerstörte Kindheit und Jugend mein Leben und Überleben in Berlin on WorldCat
  6. Scheer, R. (2021). Understanding Silence: On an Ongoing Search for People, Things, and Connections Not Really Unknown. In E. Heitzer, M. Jander, A. Kahane, & P. G. Poutrus (Eds.), After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR (1st ed., pp. 209–215). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tsxjzv.18
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