{"id":4929,"date":"2023-06-27T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T09:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/wer-diesseits-und-jenseits-der-mauer-sitzt"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:58:59","slug":"who-sits-on-this-side-and-on-the-other-side-of-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/wer-diesseits-und-jenseits-der-mauer-sitzt","title":{"rendered":"WHO SITS ON THIS SIDE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with Katja Hoyer<\/h4>\n<h4>WHO SITS ON THIS SIDE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>The historiography of the GDR is still the subject of heated debate. Or is again.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The historian Katja Hoyer, who grew up in East Germany and now works in London, has sparked controversy with \u201eThis side of the Wall, a new history of the GDR 1949-1990\u201c: Her attempt to once again bring the \u201evanished country\u201c onto the stage has been met with enthusiasm, but also with opposition. Since the GDR was united with the FRG, history no longer belongs to the East Germans. Hoyer portrays German socialism from the perspective of those who experienced it themselves. She does not whitewash the dictatorship, but she describes everyday life and social achievements that some people like to remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katja Hoyer<\/strong>, born in the GDR in 1985, now lives in London. She conducts research at King's College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. As a columnist for the Washington Post, she regularly writes about German and European society and politics, and comments on historical topics for the BBC and the Spectator. Her first book \u201eBlood and Iron. The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918\u201c was one of the best books of 2021 according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Tessa Szyszkowitz, <\/strong>born in Stuttgart, has lived in London since 2010. The journalist and author was previously a correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Jerusalem. She is a columnist for Weltpolitik in Falter, curator of the Philoxenia series at the Kreiskyforum and a Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoffmann-und-campe.de\/products\/63884-diesseits-der-mauer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Katja Hoyer:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>This side of the Wall. A new history of the GDR 1949-1990\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Hoffmann and Campe, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-455-01568-3, 28,- \u20ac<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Szyszkowitz in Konversation mit Katja Hoyer WER DIESSEITS UND JENSEITS DER MAUER SITZT \u00dcber die Geschichtsschreibung der DDR wird immer noch heftig gestritten. Oder schon wieder. Die Historikerin Katja Hoyer, die in Ostdeutschland aufgewachsen ist und heute in London arbeitet, hat mit \u201eDiesseits der Mauer, eine neue Geschichte der DDR 1949-1990\u201c eine Kontroverse ausgel\u00f6st: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4931,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4929","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WER DIESSEITS UND JENSEITS DER MAUER SITZT - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/who-sits-on-this-side-and-on-the-other-side-of-the-wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WER DIESSEITS UND JENSEITS DER MAUER SITZT - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tessa Szyszkowitz in Konversation mit Katja Hoyer WER DIESSEITS UND JENSEITS DER MAUER SITZT \u00dcber die Geschichtsschreibung der DDR wird immer noch heftig gestritten. 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