Katja Hoyer and Helen Fry
Weimar on the Edge of Catastrophe
Tuesday 29.09.2026
Summary
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Helen Fry in conversation with bestselling historian Katja Hoyer about her latest research and book on Weimar, a town and its people that dreamt of a better world and woke up to tyranny. Covering the period 1919–1939, these are the stories of the men and women who lived through the new republic and Hitler’s regime.
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. 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.
Her latest book is available here: Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe