Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...

Katja Hoyer’s "Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany" presents a nuanced and thought-provoking history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Unlike the traditional Western perspective that ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Katja Hoyer, research fellow at King’s College London, to discuss her new book, Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. They chat about the political ...

In “Beyond the Wall”, a new history of life in East Germany, the Anglo-German academic Katja Hoyer has done just that. In the process, she inadvertently highlights the distinctly East German character ...

For the first time since the Nazi era, a far-right party made a significant political breakthrough in Germany. The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a regional election this month in the state of ...

The former chancellor was the chief architect of Germany’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels and cuts to defence spending. Both haunt the country today, says German-British historian Katja Hoyer ...

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her latest book is Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. Riding high in the polls, the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD ...