Uwe Reimer
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Uwe Reimer (* 16. February 1948 in Hamburg; † 23. February 2004 in Göttingen) was a German writer who wrote numerous books about history and social studies.
[edit] Biography
Reimer was born in 1948 in Hamburg. He visited the "Gymnasium Altona" which he finished in 1967. He studied history and philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where he first met his later co-author Lutz Tornow, with whom he was connected in friendship till the end of his life. Uwe Reimer received a doctor's degree in 1978.
His first book publication in two volumes, Alltag unterm Hakenkreuz (1980), was criticised of being too uncritical. His following works earned little attention, until he had a big success with Die USA (1992) in collaboration with Lutz Tornow.
For health-related reasons he backed off into family life with his wife and his two children and kept only little writing activity. Uwe Reimer died in 2004 in Göttingen.
[edit] Literature
(selection)
- Alltag unterm Hakenkreuz and
- Alltag unterm Hakenkreuz II. Alltag der Entrechteten., Rowohlt, 1980, ISBN 3-499-14625-8
- Die USA (with Lutz Tornow), Diesterweg, 1992, ISBN 3-425-03258-5
