tyranny in Weimar

Historian Katja Hoyer delivers a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler in her new
book Weimar – Life on the Edge of Catastrophe.

Her portrait of this German city through its inhabitants in the years 1919-1933 will be a must when
she appears at this year’s Festival for anyone with an interest in the rise of fascism.

The German town gave its name to the Weimar Republic in the aftermath of WW1, but it was also
where fascism took hold, and where Buchenwald was dug out of a beech forest.

She writes of a vividly drawn cast of characters, swept up in history, who became witnesses,
perpetrators, victims and bystanders.

Copies are available from 7 May.