Benjamin Monferat

Operating under the pseudonym Benjamin Monferat, this German author is also a historian, dedicating himself to history in all its facets. His formative years spent near a small train station on the inner German border, with the chugging of historic steam locomotives as his earliest memories, deeply inform his work. The life story of his grandfather, who was involved in constructing luxurious parlor cars during the Third Reich while simultaneously engaging in active resistance against the regime, served as a significant impetus for his writing, particularly for "Welt in Flammen."