Katja Hoyer: Beyond the Wall

The Book Club | 5 April 2023 | 0h 49m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

Interview with Katja Hoyer about her book Beyond The Wall: East Germany 1949-1990. Explains that there is much more to the East German state than the Berlin Wall, the Stasi, and the grey totalitarian dystopia of popular imagination. Discusses Erich Honecker's wild side, the importance of coffee to East German morale, and how inevitable or otherwise were the historical forces that saw Germany first divided, and then reunited.

See also Dan Snow's interview with her about her book Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918.