Regina Scheer


Regina Scheer 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. She was a copywriter at Oktoberklub. From 1972 to 1976, she was editor of Forum, the student newspaper of Freie Deutsche Jugend ; and from 1980 to 1990 she was an editor at the literary magazine '. Since the Peaceful Revolution, she has worked as a freelance journalist, historian and editor.
Scheer published several books on German-Jewish history and had her first novel ' published in 2014.

Awards

  • 2014:
  • 2017:

    Publications

  • AHAWAH, das vergessene Haus. Aufbau, Berlin 1992
  • Es gingen Wasser wild über unsere Seele. Aufbau, Berlin 1999
  • Der Umgang mit den Denkmälern., 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 im Berliner Wedding 1882–2007. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2007,
  • Kurt Tucholsky. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2008
  • Zerbrochene Bilder., Rheinsberg 2011
  • Zerstörte Kindheit und Jugend. Mein Leben und Überleben in Berlin. together with, Berlin, 2014, Memorial to the Murdered [Jews of Europe],.
  • Machandel.
  • After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR. 2021.