Regina Scheer

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

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 worked as editor of the Freie Deutsche Jugend' student newspaper Forum, and from 1980 to 1990 at the literary magazine Temperamente [de]. 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 [de] published in 2014.^[3]

AHAWAH, das vergessene Haus. Aufbau, Berlin 1992
Es gingen Wasser wild über unsere Seele. Aufbau, Berlin 1999
Der Umgang mit den Denkmälern. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung [de], Potsdam 2003
Im Schatten der Sterne. Aufbau, Berlin 2004
Wir sind die Liebermanns. Propyläen, Berlin 2006
Mausche mi-Dessau Moses Mendelssohn. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2006
Den Schwächeren helfen, stark zu sein. Die Schrippenkirche [de] im Berliner Wedding 1882–2007. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2007, ISBN 978-3-938485-63-7
Kurt Tucholsky. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2008
Zerbrochene Bilder. Kurt-Tucholsky-Literaturmuseum [de], Rheinsberg 2011
Zerstörte Kindheit und Jugend. Mein Leben und Überleben in Berlin.^[5] together with Regina Steinitz [de], Berlin, 2014, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, ISBN 978-3-942240-16-1.
Machandel.
After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR. 2021.^[6]

^ Regina Scheer, at Aufbau-Verlag
^ Friederike Freier: Familientreffen vor Publikum, at Horch und Guck [de]
^ "Roman "Machandel" - Die verschlungenen Lebensgeschichten der DDR" (in German). Retrieved 4 October 2020.
^ Regina Scheer at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)
^ Zerstörte Kindheit und Jugend mein Leben und Überleben in Berlin on WorldCat
^ 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