Simone Barck

Simone Barck (July 1944 – 16 July 2007) was a German contemporary historian and literary scholar. A principal focus of her research was on Literature and the Publishing Sector in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Life Barck was born in Nazi Germany towards the end of July 1944 during the final year of the Second World War. Following the expulsions that defined the mid-1940s in the region, she ended up in what became, from 1949, the GDR. She attended school in Rostock before moving on to study Germanistics and Slavic studies at the University of Rostock and the University of Greifswald.