{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ill Literacy: Books with Benson","title":"Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany (Guest: Katja Hoyer)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5440,"description":"Heartland’s Tim Benson is once again joined by Katja Hoyer, research fellow at King’s College London, to discuss her new book, Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany. They chat about the political, social, and cultural landscape that existed in East Germany, the oppressions and hardships implemented and placed on the East German population by the communist regime, and why East Germans were so into blue jeans. \nGet the book here: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/katja-hoyer/beyond-the-wall/9781541602571/\nShow Notes:\nCommentary: Clare McHugh – “East of Eden”\nhttps://www.commentary.org/articles/clare-mchugh/east-germany-katja-hoyer-matthew-longo/\nThe Critic: David Goodhart – “The country that went to the wall”\nhttps://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2023/the-country-that-went-to-the-wall/\nThe Economist: “Beyond the Wall adds depth to caricatures of East Germany”\nhttps://www.economist.com/culture/2023/03/23/beyond-the-wall-adds-depth-to-caricatures-of-east-germany\nThe European Conservative: Jonathon Van Maren – “The Personal Narratives of Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall”\nhttps://europeanconservative.com/articles/reviews/the-personal-narratives-of-hoyers-beyond-the-wall/\nFinancial Times: Frederick Studemann – “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”\nhttps://www.ft.com/content/3f26324f-081c-47de-a168-4fdf03a1e4ed\nForeign Policy: Allison Meakem – “A Tale of Two Germanies”\nhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/01/germany-east-west-reunification-book-review-katja-hoyer-michael-kater/\nThe Guardian: Jacob Mikanowski – “Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review – the human face of the socialist state”\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/02/beyond-the-wall-by-katja-hoyer-review-far-from-the-gdr-of-the-western-imagination-east-germany-1949-1990\nLiterary Review: John Kampfner – “Honecker’s Hidden Pleasures”\nhttps://literaryreview.co.uk/honeckers-hidden-pleasures\nLos Angeles Review of Books: Matthew Longo – “Ostalgie: Revisiting East Germany”...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kNYd03PWLsrhW1fapjuL69XCID7ipQAh8UAmtQYE_W0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM2NzM4LzE2Njk4/MzU0NzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}