Paul Hockenos

Paul Hockenos (born 1963) is a Berlin- and New York–based writer and political analyst who has been working in Germany and across Central and Eastern Europe since 1989.[1] His work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Nation, Foreign Policy, the New Statesman, The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other periodicals.[2] He has authored several books on European politics.[2][3]

Biography

Hockenos grew up near Skidmore College, in Saratoga Springs, NY, where his father, Warren Hockenos, was a professor of philosophy.[1] He earned a BA in political science from Skidmore in 1985, then traveled to Germany and, for a time, studied political science at the Free University, in West Berlin.[1] Subsequently, he completed a master's degree in social and political thought at the University of Sussex, England.[1] In the summer of 1989, while hitchhiking to Budapest, he observed how masses of East Germans were crossing the border from Communist-controlled Hungary into Austria (one of the turns of events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall); his writing about what he witnessed marked the beginning of his journalistic career.[1]

His most recent book, Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin, published by the New Press in 2017, is a history of Berlin's musical and political underground since the late 1960s.[4]

References

1. "Paul Hockenos." Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2010. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, June 4, 2017.
2. "Paul Hockenos". World Policy Institute. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
3. "About this author: Paul Hockenos". Boston Review. bostonreview.net. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
4. Rockwell, John (June 2, 2017). "Fifty Years of Music and Politics in Berlin, East and West". New York Times; print version appeared in the Sunday Book Review, p. 49, on June 4, 2017.