Robert Scheer (writer)

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Robert Scheer (born March 23, 1973 in Carei ) is a German writer who lives in Tübingen .

Career

Scheer was born in Carei ( Transylvania ) and grew up bilingual. His mother tongue is Hungarian, the school language was Romanian. In 1985 his family emigrated to Israel, where he learned Hebrew and graduated from high school in Petah-Tikwa in 1991. On a subsequent long trip to Australia he got his first insights into the music business, which led to the formation of a rock band in 1992. He had previously started his military service in the Israeli army, but was dismissed after two months for "pacifist sentiments".

From 1993 to 1996 he earned his living as an interpreter and by placing construction workers from abroad to Israel. From 1996 to 1997 Scheer went on a long trip with the band to London for eleven concerts in four months, after which he worked as a music producer until 1999. In the meantime, English had been added as a fourth language.

In 1999 he traveled to Germany for the first time. From 1999 to 2002 he studied philosophy as a major, art history and “German Language and Culture” as minor subjects at the University of Haifa and graduated in 2002 with a master's degree. Financed by a scholarship from the German Academic Foreign Service DAAD , Scheer was able to spend a month in Tübingen in the same year to learn the German language; As a doctoral student of Manfred Frank , he worked in 2004 and 2005 on S. Maimon's “Theorem of Determinability”, in which the DAAD again supported him with a scholarship from 2005 to 2007. From 2008 to 2011 Scheer worked as a bookseller and occasionally as a construction worker.

Create

In 2012 his book “The Scent of Sussita” was published by Hanser, Berlin. "In twelve interconnected stories, he shows images of a deeply torn Promised Land, Israel with all its contradictions and upheavals" The first story tells of the long waiting time and the joy of being allocated in a family that has a Sussita - the "Trabi of the near." Ostens ”- and how it then supposedly disappeared because of a camel. The book found resonance in many national media, including the Jüdische Zeitung, the world, the time and also with Perlentaucher.

In March 2016 , Marta Press published its second book “Pici. Memories of the Carei and Satu Mare ghettos and the Auschwitz, Walldorf and Ravensbrück concentration camps ”. It tells the memories of the author's grandmother, who grew up as a Jew in Hungary and survived the Nazi era in ghettos and concentration camps. It has been discussed in numerous reviews and, as a narrative non-fiction book, reached number 8 on the 2016 hotlist of the best books by independent publishers.

Works

  • The scent of Sussita , Hanser, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24029-2 .
  • Pici. Memories of the Carei and Satu Mare ghettos and the Auschwitz, Walldorf and Ravensbrück concentration camps , Marta Press, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-944442-40-2 .
  • St. Matthew Passion: A humorous road movie from Israel , Hamsa Publishing in cooperation with BoD, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-8309-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ page at Robertscheer.de to resume
  2. ↑ Quoted from Perlentaucher.de
  3. ↑ http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/literatur/article110585362/Heute-Robert-Scheer.html
  4. ↑ Die Zeit - online lecture ( memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  5. ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/robert-scheer.html
  6. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hotlist-online.com
personal data
SURNAME Scheer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Carei