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From bestselling historian Katja Hoyer comes a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler and the people of Weimar.
Weimar : Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Weimar looms large in German history: a crucible of democracy and dictatorship. This ancient town nestled in the heart of the country was home to some of Europe's greatest thinkers, Goethe and Schiller, Liszt and Nietzsche among them. It gave its name to the ambitious Weimar Republic crafted in the aftermath of the First World War. But it was also where fascism took hold. Where Bauhaus architects first experimented with new ways of living, Buchenwald was dug out of a beech forest.
Weimar shows us a town and its people on the edge of catastrophe. Drawing on a wealth of new archival research, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer takes us from 1919 to 1939 as she tells the stories of the men and women who lived through the new republic and Hitler's regime. We encounter a vividly drawn cast of characters, from bookbinder Carl Weirich and hotel owners Rosa and Arthur Schmidt, to Friedrich Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth. Here are fascists and socialists, artists and workers, politicians and citizens, who, as the events of history swept them up, became witnesses, perpetrators, victims and bystanders.
An unforgettable picture of lives and choices in extraordinary circumstances, Weimar takes us deep into the heart of the storm - to the town that dreamt of a better world, and woke up to tyranny.
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. Her debut book
Blood and Iron
was well received by academics and critics. Her second book
Beyond the Wall
was a
Sunday Times
bestseller and long-listed for the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize.
Katja is currently a columnist for the
Berliner Zeitung
. She is a regular contributor to
Bloomberg
,
The Spectator
,
The Daily Telegraph
and
UnHerd
and has also worked as a columnist for
The Washington Post
. She occasionally writes for a range of other newspapers such as
The Financial Times
,
The Times
,
The Guardian
and
Die Welt
on current political affairs in Germany and Europe as well as history and books.
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