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Regina Scheer (born in 1950) is a German writer and historian.
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Regina Scheer (born in 1950) is a German writer and historian.
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 worked as editor of the Freie Deutsche Jugend' student newspaper Forum, and from 1980 to 1990 at the literary magazine Temperamente . Since the Peaceful Revolution, she has worked as a freelance journalist, historian and editor.[ citation needed ]
Scheer published several books on German-Jewish history and had her first novel Machandel published in 2014. [3]
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