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Paul Hockenos (born 1963) is a
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–based writer and political analyst who has been working in Germany and across Central and Eastern Europe since 1989."Paul Hockenos." ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Detroit: Gale, 2010. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, June 4, 2017. His work has appeared in ''
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'', among other periodicals. He has authored several books on European politics.


Biography

Hockenos grew up near
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, in Saratoga Springs, NY, where his father, Warren Hockenos, was a professor of philosophy. 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
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. Subsequently, he completed a master's degree in social and political thought at the
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, England. In the summer of 1989, while hitchhiking to
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, he observed how masses of
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were crossing the border from Communist-controlled Hungary into Austria (one of the turns of events leading up to the fall of the
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); his writing about what he witnessed marked the beginning of his journalistic career. In one of his most recent books, ''Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin'', published by the
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in 2017, he writes about the history of Berlin's musical and political underground since the late 1960s.
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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.


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Official website
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