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 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]

Awards

• 2014: Mara-Cassens-Preis [de]
• 2017: Ver.di-Literaturpreis Berlin-Brandenburg [de]^[4]

Publications

• 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]