Books by Katja Hoyer
Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. She is a visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is co-host of The New Germany podcast.
“There’s a brilliant book by Katja Hoyer called Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990, which analyses the impression that the West has of East Germans at that time. They were viewed as being miserable and desperate, and wanting to flee. Both Siblings and Beyond the Wall depict the East Germans in a more nuanced manner. The GDR was the reality in which they were born, got married, and died. They had hook-ups and rubbish jobs.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Katja Hoyer were recommended
The best books on Being Average, recommended by Eleanor Ross
All of us are ultimately average, says author Eleanor Ross, and we should find that liberating rather than saddening. In this interview, she recommends five books across fiction and nonfiction that can help us understand and embrace our averageness.
Notable Nonfiction of Early 2022, recommended by Sophie Roell