About Katja Hoyer
Living abroad can have a big impact on your identity and the way you see your country of origin. That is certainly the case for me. I was born in Germany but have lived in Britain for well over a decade – an experience that has made me both more and less German.
Living in Britain has compounded my Germanness because I earn a living thinking, talking and writing about Germany. My books Blood and Iron and Beyond the Wall describe versions of the country that don’t exist anymore and yet affect the present immensely. My Washington Post column, as well as my contributions to British newspapers like The Spectator, The Telegraph, The Times, The FT and The Guardian, are spaces for my political and cultural analyses of Germany today.