Sabina Kaluzas Werk ist geprägt von der deutsch-polnischen Geschichte und vielen verzwickten Konstellationen, die das Heranwachsen als Tochter einer Deutschen und eines Polen mit sich brachte.
What is little known is that Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), legendary Polish pianist, composer and statesman, spent many years in Germany, especially in Berlin.
Her perfect technique and artistic sensitivity have made her an international name. In an interview with Porta Polonica, she talks about her musical passion and everything that Berlin has to offer.
Sometimes, it takes just one work to make an artist immortal. Jurek Becker ([1937]–1997) did just that with his novel “Jakob der Lügner” (“Jacob the Liar”).
Bascha Mika (*1954) is one of the Polish voices that command respect in the German media. Over the course of her career, she has held numerous management positions and has become a role model for an e...
Artificial intelligence will impact all areas of our lives in the future, including language. One company that is leading this field is DeepL. The brains behind DeepL belong to a Pole, Jaroslaw Kutylo...
There is no way of glossing over the statistics: there are over half a million homeless people living in Germany, thousands of whom are from Poland. There could be up to 5,000 homeless Poles in Berlin...
The song has a place of its own in the history of the “Schlager” pop genre in Germany, but also has its dark sides. Several artists have sung the tragic song as part of their repertoire.
Around 3,100 forced labourers worked at Elektro- und Feinmechanische Industrie GmbH (ELFI), a hidden factory in the Hildesheim forest owned by Bosch. Later, the company was re-named Trillke-Werke GmbH...
In 2011, a slim volume was published that caused quite a stir in Germany. Sharp-eyed readers may already have raised an eyebrow: is the author’s name really Justyna Polanska?
Anna Tatarczyk’s works transport the observer into a world of colour, light, and form that at first sight look like a clear geometric structure. However, a closer look reveals the multi-layered dimens...
She inherited her love for discovering and portraying characters and stories from her family. Today she lives in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, and has long spoken German better than Polish.
On 26 November 2024, the footballer Jan Furtok died of Alzheimer’s disease in his birthplace of Katowice, aged just 62. In Poland, Furtok is a legend. In Germany, he is particularly well remembered in...
Son of a well-to-do-family, party functionary, sports reporter. Konrad Glücksmann-Gruda (1915–2012) was a colourful personality who wanted to make the best of difficult situations.
In order to gain access to information, Halina Kłąb-Szwarc (1923–2002) transformed herself into a thoroughly German woman. Her major achievements include the localisation of important military facilit...
With her “Offene Augen” (“Open Eyes”) puppet theatre in Bielefeld, Maria Końska-Chmielecki (1954–2022) masterfully combined her passion for art with her career as a psychologist.
