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. ✍️Washington Post, Spectator, UnHerd and others. 📚Blood and Iron.
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4 days ago |
katjahoyer.uk | Katja Hoyer
I was standing on the market square in the middle of Weimar. The town was eerily quiet. From the elegant, yellow facade of the town hall, black-red-and-white banners flapped in the wind. Every now and then the cloth straightened and swastikas flashed into view. ZEITGEIST is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A waiter in a tailcoat appeared from nowhere.
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1 week ago |
katjahoyer.uk | Katja Hoyer
Easter is very much upon us, and so on this Maundy Thursday, I have a special Easter egg for you: a guest piece on Margot Honecker, whose 98th birthday it would have been today. Many now remember her as East Germany’s second and last ‘First Lady,’ an old woman with dyed purple hair, who was ideologically even more rigid than her husband, Erich Honecker. In her role as Education Minister, she became one of the most hated figures of the GDR. ZEITGEIST is a reader-supported publication.
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Katja Hoyer
Time to listen up. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- “Now that Donald Trump is US President again, the strong, reliable guy in the playground has suddenly become unpredictable,” the German magazine Der Spiegel explained in its children’s section last week. Much of political Germany feels this way: almost as disillusioned with the US as it is with Russia, keen to reduce dependency on both.
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1 week ago |
berliner-zeitung.de | Katja Hoyer
Rechtspopulistischer Quatsch, migrationsfeindliche Narrative: Die ARD-Sendung „Klar“ hat viel Häme hervorgerufen. Katja Hoyer hofft, der ÖRR hält dem Druck diesmal stand. (B+)„Innerlich noch ein Teenie“, „rechtspopulistischer Quatsch“, „ein Tiefpunkt der Berichterstattung“. Ob die Journalistin Julia Ruhs damit gerechnet hatte, wie heftig der Gegenwind ausfällt, wenn man im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk eine Meinung widerspiegelt, die die Mehrheit der Deutschen teilen dürfte?
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1 week ago |
katjahoyer.uk | Katja Hoyer
‘Last time, I swear the windows rattled in their frames,’ a woman told me excitedly as she pressed a glass of champagne into my hand. I was at the German Embassy in London earlier this week for a sneak peek of Die Walküre, the second installment of Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will be performed at the Royal Opera in London in May. ‘I guess the building isn’t really designed to withstand opera singing,’ my interlocutor giggled as she took a sip from her glass.
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The story of Margot Honecker, East Germany's long-term 'First Lady' and Education Minister, is deeply interwoven with the history of the GDR. @JonBenjamin19 met her at the very end of her long life. A bizarre and troubling encounter in ZEITGEIST 👇 https://t.co/bf3IQcAMmF
Germany's new energy policy is Germany's old energy policy: more gas and more renewables. The result will be the same too: the world's third largest economy will stay as critically dependent on imports as ever. Bring back nuclear, I say @Bloomberg 👇 https://t.co/KJ4URt3vCM
The new German government has granted itself borrowing of up to €1 trillion, yet the best it can come up with is a coalition treaty full of non-committal ambiguity. Perhaps they'll fill it with life as they go, but it's an uninspiring start. @spectator 👇 https://t.co/AoMiEL3qIK