Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is a historian, writer, and scientific advisor to the management of the German Democratic Republic Museum in Berlin. He is considered one of Germany's most prominent experts on the history of the German Democratic and Communist Republic. One of his most recent publications is with C Publishing House. H. Beck wrote his two-volume biography of Walter Ulbricht, and his best-selling books Freedom Shock (Freiheitsschock) and (co-authored with Bodo Ramelow) The New Wall (Die neue Mauer).