Katja Hoyer

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of the international bestsellers Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 and Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire. Beyond the Wall was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Her latest book is Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe. Katja is a columnist for Berliner Zeitung and a regular contributor to British and American news outlets such as the BBC, Bloomberg, The Telegraph and The Guardian. She co-hosts the German history podcast Reichs & Republics and publishes a biweekly Substack newsletter called ZEITGEIST.