Regina Scheer

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

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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 was editor of Forum, the student newspaper of Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth); and from 1980 to 1990 she was an editor at the literary magazine Temperamente  [ de ]. Since the Peaceful Revolution, she has worked as a freelance journalist, historian and editor. [1]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "Regina Scheer" (in German). Aufbau Verlag. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  2. Freier, Friederike (1994). "Familientreffen vor Publikum" (PDF). Horch und Guck  [ de ] (in German) (11): 50–51. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2025-08-03.
  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