Katja Hoyer
Global Opinions Columnist at The Washington Post
Writer| Katja Hoyer at ZEITGEIST | Katja Hoyer
🇬🇧🇩🇪 Historian & journalist. Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. FRHistS. ✍️ Bloomberg, Spectator, UnHerd and others. 📚Blood and Iron.
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1 week ago |
katjahoyer.uk | Katja Hoyer
A strange battle was lost and won in political Berlin this week. At face value, it seemed a trivial matter. Two parties in the German parliament were arguing over meeting space. They both wanted to secure Room 3-S-001 as a regular home for their parliamentary groups. The resulting wranglings could have been funny, but then, German politics rarely is. In a way only Germany can, this logistical dispute escalated into a battle over the country’s political soul.
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2 weeks ago |
katjahoyer.uk | Katja Hoyer
I must have been around 16 or so when I visited Italy for the first time. Thinking about it now, it wasn’t exactly a dream journey. It was a class trip, requiring a coach journey of well over 20 hours each way. On board were a couple of overworked teachers, two drunken bus drivers and 50-odd fellow teenagers, most of whom were excited for reasons that had little to do with the culture and heritage of the country we were about to visit. ZEITGEIST is a reader-supported publication.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.com.au | Katja Hoyer
Last week a man called Peter Fitzek was apprehended by police. He calls himself King Peter I, and he is the head of the ‘Kingdom of Germany’, the largest of a number of groups that don’t accept the legitimacy of the current German state and want to replace it with their own.
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2 weeks ago |
spectator.co.uk | Katja Hoyer
Last week a man called Peter Fitzek was apprehended by police. He calls himself King Peter I, and he is the head of the ‘Kingdom of Germany’, the largest of a number of groups that don’t accept the legitimacy of the current German state and want to replace it with their own. Monarchism may not be widespread in Germany, but the idea certainly has a dedicated following. Police came down hard on Fitzek’s realm in coordinated morning raids last Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago |
katjahoyer.uk | Katja Hoyer
‘King of Germany arrested’ is a headline you don’t read every day. It made the rounds on the German news cycle earlier this week when a man called Peter Fitzek was apprehended by police. Fitzek, or ‘King Peter I’, as he calls himself, is the head of the ‘Kingdom of Germany’, the largest of a number of groups that don’t accept the legitimacy of the current German state and want to replace it with their own.
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