Udo Scheer
Udo Scheer (born October 3, 1951 in Munich ) is a German writer .
Scheer was a founding member of the opposition working group for literature and poetry in Jena , which was one of the most important centers of youth culture in Jena in the 1970s and was banned in the summer of 1975, more than a year before the expatriation of the songwriter Wolf Biermann .
Life
Udo Scheer was born in Bavaria and came to the GDR in 1960 . Until 1974 he studied technology for scientific device construction at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . He worked as a designer in the GDR and wrote without being able to publish his works. The MfS "processed" it in an operational process . After the peaceful revolution in the GDR he got involved a. a. from 1995 as chairman of the Geschichtswerkstatt Jena eV; Scheer has been a freelance writer and publicist since 1993. He is a member of the Federal Republic of Germany's circle of authors .
In addition to poetry, he wrote prose and has emerged with contemporary historical works on the opposition and resistance and the history of the independent peace movement in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s. In vision and reality , he traces the memories and biographies of expatriates and those who remained in the GDR. With his biography about Jürgen Fuchs , with whom he has worked for many years, he has published a book that has received much media attention. For his book We'll be back! Plauen 89 - A city demonstrates after Germany , Udo Scheer was awarded the 2014 prize of the Federal Agency for Political Education “Remembering history - shaping the present”.
Scheer is married and lives in Stadtroda .
Fonts
- Z. stories. Landpresse, Weilerswist 1996, ISBN 3-930-13726-7 .
- Vision and reality. The opposition in Jena in the seventies and eighties. Series of researches on GDR society. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-186-0 .
- Time rifts. Throws, interventions, conversations, stories , Geest-Verlag Vechta 2003, ISBN 3-936389-70-5 .
- Jürgen Fuchs. A literary way into the opposition. Imprisoned in Hohenschönhausen. Published by the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial Foundation . Jaron, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89773-573-6 .
- The sun has four corners. Günter Ullmann - a biography , Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-896-4 .
- Reiner Kunze. Being a poet: A German-German freedom , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2013, ISBN 978-3-95462-075-3 .
- Scheer on the conflict between Joachim Gauck and Jürgen Fuchs over the personnel policy of the BStU , in: Kommune , May 1998
- We will be back! Plauen 89 - A city demonstrates to Germany , Mitteldeutscher Verlag. ISBN 978-3-95462-324-2 .
- Andreas B. Bengsch and Udo Scheer: Divers in the desert - The nights and days of Carl Graff. Novel. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018. ISBN 978-3-96311-015-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Udo Scheer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Udo Scheer at perlentaucher.de
- “The state shot at us cheeky sparrows with its big cannons” - Interview with Udo Scheer on the literary scene in the GDR
- Udo Scheer at ddr-zeitzeuge.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Udo Scheer at the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheer, Udo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |