Katja Hoyer

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist specialising in modern German history. She is a visiting research fellow at King's College London and writes for the Guardian, the Washington Post, and other publications. Beyond the Wall: A New History of East Germany, 1949-1990 reexamines the history of the German Democratic Republic beyond the standard Cold War narrative, exploring what daily life was actually like for ordinary East Germans. The book was a Sunday Times bestseller and was praised for its nuanced, even-handed approach to a history usually told only from the West's perspective. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers a revelatory new history of East Germany that goes beyond the clichés — history that restores complexity to a story usually told in black and white.