Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Katja Hoyer in conversation with Richard J. Evans

Presented by Dulwich Festival and Alleyn's School. 

Join Sunday Times best-selling German historian Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall, which was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize, as she talks to eminent historian, Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University, about her latest book Weimar. Life on the Edge of Catastrophe.

Weimar looms large in German history: a crucible of democracy and dictatorship. This ancient town nestled in the heart of the country was home to some of Europe’s greatest thinkers, Goethe and Schiller, Liszt and Nietzsche among them. It gave its name to the ambitious Weimar Republic crafted in the aftermath of the First World War. But it was also where fascism took hold. Where Bauhaus architects first experimented with new ways of living, Buchenwald was dug out of a beech forest. Weimar shows us a town and its people on the edge of catastrophe. An unforgettable picture of lives and choices in extraordinary circumstances, Weimar takes us deep into the heart of the storm – to the town that dreamt of a better world, and woke up to tyranny.

Copies of the book for sale before the event starts, book signing at the end of the event.

Book here.