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Stan Lauryssens (Antwerp, 1946) is a Flemish master forger and author. In the early 1970s, Stan Lauryssens worked as city editor of De Nieuwe Gazet / Het Laatste Nieuws. He then traveled the world as a freelance journalist and interviewed many famous people: the writers Harold Robbins, Konsalik, Jack Higgins and Catherine Cookson. He met world traveler Thor Heyerdahl who won an Oscar for his documentary film about Kon-Tiki, visual artists such as Christo, Andy Warhol, Karel Appel and Salvador Dalí. In Germany he had long conversations with the survivors from the Berlin bunker of Adolf Hitler: SS bodyguard Otto Günsche who burned the body of the Führer in a bomb crater, Leni Riefenstahl who was the favorite director of Hitler and of the Third Reich, Karl Dönitz who for 22 days succeeded Hitler as Führer of Germany.
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