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Time to end a round trip that began at the British Embassy in Berlin, led to Warsaw and Augustów in Poland for a conference and finally to Dalkey for the book fest. I have a strange job but I love it 😎 Reflections on the last leg in Ireland in ZEITGEIST👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/what-is-it-w…

You can probably tell by my face that I was very excited to bump into Neil MacGregor. His 'Germany – Memories of a Nation' was truly inspirational to me and many other German soul searchers. At Penguin Books UK's 90th birthday party in London this evening 🐧📚🥳🥂

Germany had its first Veterans Day last Sunday. Nothing in Germany comes history-free. Do former East German soldiers count? How does Germany feel about honouring people who fought and fell in wars? What do ex-soldiers think? ZEITGEIST on Veteranentag 👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/how-did-germ…

Although many German scientists were at the forefront of nuclear research, the Nazi project of building an atom bomb failed. Iain_MacGregor1 (@iainmacgregor1.bsky.social) explains why and what this meant for the world in ZEITGEIST 👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/how-fears-of…

In the interest of integration, I've tried to dabble in the art of British grumbling about the weather. 'Yes,' I said, 'it's been unusually sunny...We really need some rain.' Sorry. I'm just not feeling it. From where I'm sitting, this feels like a great British summer 😁🍹🇬🇧

Moving evening at The Orwell Prize Ceremony. It was an honour to judge the prize for Political Writing. Our winner: Victoria Amelina's Looking at Women, Looking at War. She couldn't be there because she was killed by a Russian missile. She leaves a beautiful and important book.

If you like German history in film and art, I just reviewed two new things on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. 🎬 From Hilde, With Love - A true and harrowing story of resistance against the Nazi regime 🎨 Anselm Kiefer and Vincent Van Gogh Royal Academy Listen👇 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Artist Anselm Kiefer was born in a German air-raid shelter at the end of WWII. What happens when you view Van Gogh through his 20th-century eyes? Kiefer saw different sunflowers and starry nights. ZEITGEIST on the new Kiefer/Van Gogh exhibition in London👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/kiefer-van-g…

Being a historian comes with strange side effects of overworking... I just signed a document and dated it "27 June 1925" 🤦‍♀️ Happy weekend when it comes! 🍻

Being a historian isn't always easy. Sometimes you have to make a documentary on a sunny boat in Berlin... Greetings from ze German capital! 😎👋

A few Germans risked everything to fight the Nazi regime. Some did so for moral reasons. They are easy to venerate. But how should we remember German communists murdered for fighting Hitler? Was communist resistance bad resistance? I ask in ZEITGEIST 👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/was-communis…

This weekend ranks high on my list of coolest ways of doing history. Making a documentary with a French Canadian film crew from a chartered boat in Berlin takes some beating 😎

The town of Weimar gave name to an interwar tragedy. What happened there between the two world wars has occupied my mind for the last three years. The result is a book called WEIMAR, which will be out in Spring 2026. I have just submitted my manuscript! 📚📚📚

The Wall has been down longer than it was up, yet Berlin remains marked by division. It's got at least two of everything: TV Towers, zoos, universities, operas...Will it always be defined by the 20th century? ZEITGEIST asks: Berlin, why are you like this? katjahoyer.uk/p/berlin-why-a…

Forget about schadenfreude, angst and poltergeist. The German loan word the English language really needs is 'Feierabend', that moment when work is done and leisure begins. In the name of intercultural exchange, I'm merging this with local traditions 😁🇬🇧🇩🇪 Happy Feierabend! 🍻

The crucial point about Rachel Reeves crying in parliament isn't that she's a woman, but that's she's a politician. Merkel's tears affected the Eurozone crisis. Bismarck's tantrums may have changed the course of history. ZEITGEIST on political tears 👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/merkels-tear…