Regina Scheer

Regina Scheer (* 1950 in East Berlin ) is a German writer and historian .

Professional background

Regina Scheer studied theater and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1968 to 1973 . She was a copywriter for the October Club . From 1972 to 1976 she worked as an editor for the FDJ student newspaper Forum , and from 1980 to 1990 for the literary magazine Temperamente . Since the fall of the Berlin Wall she has been working as a freelance journalist , historian and editor . She lives in Berlin-Wedding .

Scheer has published several books on German-Jewish history and published her first novel Machandel in 2014 .

Awards

• 2014: Mara Cassens Prize
• 2017: Ver.di Literature Prize Berlin-Brandenburg

Works (selection)

• AHAWAH, the forgotten house . Structure , Berlin 1992
• Waters went wild over our souls . Structure, Berlin 1999
• Dealing with the monuments . Brandenburg State Center for Political Education , Potsdam 2003
• In the shadow of the stars . Structure, Berlin 2004
• "We are the Liebermanns" . Propylaea , Berlin 2006
• Mausche mi-Dessau Moses Mendelssohn . Hentrich & Hentrich , Teetz 2006
• Helping the weaker be strong. The Schrippenkirche in Berlin Wedding 1882–2007 . Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-63-7
• Kurt Tucholsky . Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2008
• Broken pictures . Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum , Rheinsberg Castle , Rheinsberg 2011
• Destroyed childhood and youth. My life and survival in Berlin., Together with Regina Steinitz , Berlin, 2014, Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe , ISBN 978-3-942240-16-1 .
• Machandel . Novel. Knaus , Munich 2014
• God lives in Wedding . Penguin Verlag , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-60016-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Regina Scheer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Regina Scheer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Regina Scheer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Regina Scheer at perlentaucher.de
• The tangled life stories of the GDR , review of Machandel . In: Deutschlandfunk , October 3, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Regina Scheer , at Aufbau-Verlag
2. ↑ Friederike Freier: Family gathering in front of an audience , with listening and watching
3. ^ The novel "Machandel" - The entwined life stories of the GDR. Retrieved January 19, 2020 (German).