Andreas Kossert, born in 1970, studied History, Slavic Studies and Politics. With a doctorate in History, he worked at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and has lived in Berlin as a historian and author since 2010. He received enthusiastic responses to his historical accounts of Masuria (2001) and East Prussia (2005). His most recent publications are 2008’s Kalte Heimat. Die Geschichte der deutschen Vertriebenen nach 1945 (Cold Homeland. The History of German Exiles after 1945), 2014’s Ostpreußen. Geschichte einer historischen Landschaft (East Prussia. The Story of a Historic Landscape), and 2020’s Flucht - Eine Menschheitsgeschichte (Flight – A Human History). For his work, he was awarded the Georg Dehio Book Prize in 2008, the NDR Kultur Non-Fiction Book Prize in 2020, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Prize for Political Book in 2021.