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CATEGORIES:AWCH Calendar
CREATED:20231206T173251
SUMMARY:Book Club
LOCATION:Carol H will host us at her home Woldsenweg 13 20249 Hamburg
DESCRIPTION:This month we will be reading
Beyond the
Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990 by Katja Hover
The German-Bri
tish historian and journalist, Katja Hoyer, gives us new insight into
East Germany, founded in 1949 and dissolved in 1990. Beyond the Wall— well-
written, well-researched, and widely acclaimed—is political history a
ugmented with
interviews of East Germans.
“When the victors of th
e Second World War agreed, in 1945, to build a
“decentralized” and “de
nazified” Germany, they set the stage for the creation of
the German D
emocratic Republic, which was founded in the region formerly
administe
red by Soviet authorities. In this layered history, Hoyer combines analysis
of
the government’s inner workings and interviews with East Germans.<
br />She takes up the state’s surveillance apparatus and its appetite for i
deological
conformity, but also considers the country’s cultural idios
yncrasies and its
generous social safety net, which included a robust
child-care system. As she
does so, she relates details that lend weigh
t to her conclusion that reunification was
“a waymarker in Germany’s q
uest for unity rather than its happy ending.”
"The New Yorker”
Penguin UK (Allen Lane), published 2023, 496 pages.
We hope you will join us to discuss Hoyer’s
East Germany.
Please note: For
our next meeting on February 18, we will be reading Eugen Ruge’s award-win
ning novel In Times of Fading Light, a sweeping story of one family over fo
ur generations in East Germany.
In the spring of 2024, we hope to make
an overnight trip to the former East Germany
to visit Jena, and Weima
r, the center of German Enlightenment and Romanticism in
1800, feature
d in Andrea’s Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This month we will be reading
Beyond the
Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990 by Katja Hover
The German-British historian and journalist, Katja Hoyer, give
s us new insight into
East Germany, founded in 1949 and dissolved in 1
990. Beyond the Wall— well-
written, well-researched, and widely accla
imed—is political history augmented with
interviews of East Germans.“When the victors of the Second World War agreed, in 1945, to build a“decentralized” and “denazified” Germany, they set the stage for the cr
eation of
the German Democratic Republic, which was founded in the reg
ion formerly
administered by Soviet authorities. In this layered histo
ry, Hoyer combines analysis of
the government’s inner workings and int
erviews with East Germans.
She takes up the state’s surveillance appar
atus and its appetite for ideological
conformity, but also considers t
he country’s cultural idiosyncrasies and its
generous social safety ne
t, which included a robust child-care system. As she
does so, she rela
tes details that lend weight to her conclusion that reunification was
“a waymarker in Germany’s quest for unity rather than its happy ending.”
"The New Yorker”
Penguin UK (Allen Lane), published 2023, 496
pages.
We hope you will
join us to discuss Hoyer’s East Germany.
Please note: For our next meeting on February 18, we will be rea
ding Eugen Ruge’s award-winning novel In Times of Fading Light, a sweeping
story of one family over four generations in East Germany.
In the spri
ng of 2024, we hope to make an overnight trip to the former East Germany
to visit Jena, and Weimar, the center of German Enlightenment and Romant
icism in
1800, featured in Andrea’s Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels.
CONTACT:Carol Strametz at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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