Rosemarie Schuder

Rosemarie Schuder came from a middle-class family in Jena.

[1] Subsequently she worked as a freelance journalist for the East German newspaper Tägliche Rundschau and Neue Zeit.

Schuder was the writer of numerous historical novels in which she dealt with primarily themes from German history like the Münster Rebellion of 1534 or the fate of important people like Paracelsus, Johannes Kepler and Michelangelo.

Schuder belonged to the P.E.N.-Zentrum of East Germany since 1978 being a member of the PEN-Zentrums Deutschland as well as the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft.

Since 1951 she belonged to the Ost-CDU ending with her withdrawal from the party in March 1990.