Andreas Kossert

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Andreas Kossert (2014)

Andreas Kossert (* 1970 in Münden ) is a German historian. He is a well-known expert on the history of East Central Europe.

Life

Kossert studied Middle and New History, Political Science and Slavic Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , The University of Edinburgh , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Free University of Berlin . In 2000 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 2001 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw . In the summer semester of 2007 he was visiting professor for Polish regional and cultural studies at the Technical University of Dresden . Since January 2010 he has been a scientific consultant and head of the documentation and research department at the Federal Foundation for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation (SFVV) in Berlin. The Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , the Prussian Historical Commission and the Commission for the History of Germans in Poland count Kossert among its members.

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Kossert's main research interests are ethnic, denominational and national minorities in East Central Europe , German-Polish relations, the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1950 , the history of Poland , East Prussia and Masuria as well as displaced persons in Germany after 1945. He publishes in German, Polish and English language.

With East Prussia - History and Myth he wrote an overall history of this province. It leads the reader through the history of the former easternmost part of Germany and traces the path from the settlement by the Teutonic Order with different ethnic groups to the present day. Kossert acted for the ARD - Documentary Back in East Prussia as a consultant and wrote the accompanying book.

With Kalte Heimat - the story of the German expellees after 1945 "Andreas Kossert shakes the myth of the all-round successful integration of the expellees after 1945". The title indicates that displaced persons were not welcome. They experienced exclusion and discrimination . The locals showed little solidarity and viewed the refugees as intruders. Most Germans didn't want to see, hear, or know anything about it. The author described the concern of the work as follows: "It is time to finally understand German displaced persons as victims who not only suffered from flight and displacement, but also from the hard-heartedness of their compatriots."

Works

Monographs

Anthologies

  • with Christophe Duhamelle, Bernhard Struck (Ed.): Grenzregionen. A European comparison from the 18th to the 20th century . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38448-1 .
  • with Uwe Neumärker (Ed.): "That was once our homeland ...": Jewish history in the Prussian East . Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942240-11-6 .

Documentaries

  • Back then in East Prussia . Consultant and companion book. Documentary (ARD 2008) by the director Dr. Florian Huber
  • Platform 1 - Return to Flatow - Director: Thomas Grimm , with Andreas Kossert, Zeitzeugen –TV, 87 min, 2012. Documentary film award 10th Neisse Film Festival 2013

Others

  • Successful integration? The displaced and the reality of the Federal Republic of Germany . Evang. Akad. Baden, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-89674-558-3 .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Andreas Kossert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Prussia, Germans or Poles? The Masurians in the field of tension of ethnic nationalism 1870–1956 .
  2. ↑ Successful integration? In: Herrenalber Forum 57, Evangelische Akademie Baden, Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-89674-558-3 , accessed on September 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kossert, Andreas. In: German National Library, accessed on August 31, 2015.
  4. ↑ Flight and expulsion 1945. ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kulturkreis Bad Lauterberg, March 13, 2015, accessed on September 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ Members ( Memento from January 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Commission for the History of Germans in Poland V., accessed on September 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Bohemia, Pomerania, Syria . Die Zeit , January 29, 2015, p. 16.
  7. ↑ a b Annette Großbongardt, Norbert F. Pötzl: Outskirts with a bulwark function. In: Der Spiegel , January 25, 2011, accessed on September 18, 2015.
  8. ^ Armin Fuhrer: Literature "Back then in East Prussia". In: Focus , accessed on August 31, 2015.
  9. ↑ a b c Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun, Reinhold Weber: Immigration and integration state Baden-Württemberg about Andreas Kossert: Kalte Heimat. The history of the German expellees after 1945. In: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, accessed on September 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ Documentary Film Award . In: 10th Neisse Film Festival, NNF10 2013, accessed October 8, 2015.
  11. ↑ Georg Dehio Book Prize 2008 awarded. In: German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, accessed on December 17, 2015.
  12. ^ Badische Akademie honors historian Andreas Kossert. In: EKD: Evangelical Church in Germany, October 6, 2008, accessed on August 31, 2015.
  13. ^ Archive 2009 - Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. In: preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse.de. March 12, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Documentary Film Award . In: 12th Neisse Film Festival, NNF10 2013, accessed October 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kossert, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Münden