Katja Hoyer: evaluation

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…For you on the map, where does North Germany stop and South Germany begin? People joke that there’s a Weißwurstäquator, a sausage equator, basically south of which they eat this white sausage that is famous at the Oktoberfest. It’s like a squishy sausage that you have to cook and boil and then suck out of its skin. If you like that, you tend to live in the south. If you don’t, you live in the north. That is usually along the river Main, which crosses Germany horizontally about a third or so. It’s south of it, and two-thirds is north. That tends to be about right, I would say. It’s also, in terms of the geography, if you look at it, the north is quite flat. Then, once you get to Thuringia and Hesse and areas like that in the center of Germany, it becomes more mountainous, which is also associated with different types of cultures. It’s that foresty, mountainous image that people have of Germany that starts about halfway down and then becomes more pronounced the further south you get until you get to the Alps as well. I would say, yes, probably the top half to two-thirds. It’s a bit larger than half, I would say, in the top. Yes. Before my final question, just to plug your book again, Katja Hoyer, Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe. Finally, what will you do next?…

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