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
The Humboldt University of Berlin (german: link=no, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
The university was established by Frederick Wi ...
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at Aufbau-Verlag
Aufbau-Verlag is a German publisher. It was founded in Berlin in 1945 and became the biggest publisher in the GDR. During that time it specialised in socialist and Russian literature.
It is currently led by Matthias Koch, René Strien, and ...
She was a copywriter at
Oktoberklub Autographed card 1968
Oktoberklub ( English: ''October Club)'', initially known as the ''Hootenanny-Klub Berlin'', was a political music group from the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The musical style of the group was a mixture of folk, chan ...
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 '. Since the
Peaceful Revolution
The Peaceful Revolution (german: Friedliche Revolution), as a part of the Revolutions of 1989, was the process of sociopolitical change that led to the opening of East Germany's borders with the West, the end of the ruling of the Socialist Unity ...
, she has worked as a freelance journalist, historian and editor.
Scheer published several books on German-Jewish history and had her first novel ' published in 2014.
Awards
* 2014:
* 2017:
Publications
* ''AHAWAH, das vergessene Haus''.
Aufbau, Berlin 1992
* ''Es gingen Wasser wild über unsere Seele''. Aufbau, Berlin 1999
* ''Der Umgang mit den Denkmälern''. , Potsdam 2003
* ''Im Schatten der Sterne''. Aufbau, Berlin 2004
* ''Wir sind die Liebermanns''.
Propyläen
''Die Propyläen'' was a periodical begun in July 1798 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend Johann Heinrich Meyer.
Impetus
During the journal's short, three-year existence its various contributors and editors, for example, shown in essay ...
, Berlin 2006
* ''Mausche mi-Dessau Moses Mendelssohn''.
Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2006
* ''Den Schwächeren helfen, stark zu sein. Die im Berliner Wedding 1882–2007''. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2007,
* ''Kurt Tucholsky''. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2008
* ''Zerbrochene Bilder''. ,
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg () is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of Berlin.
History
...
2011
* ''Zerstörte Kindheit und Jugend. Mein Leben und Überleben in Berlin.'' together with , Berlin, 2014,
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (german: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: ''Holocaust-Mahnmal''), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by arc ...
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* ''Machandel''.
* ''After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR''. 2021.
[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]
References
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1950 births
21st-century German women writers
21st-century German historians
Living people