Die Autorin und Kulturjournalistin Agnieszka Lessmann (*1964) wuchs in Polen, Israel und Deutschland auf. Dabei wären ihre Eltern und sie gerne in Polen geblieben.
Under the National Socialist regime, there were forced labourers in nearly all German villages, towns and communities. Hirzenhain was no exception. On 26 March 1945, the SS shot 87 forced labourers he...
The exhibition was created in conjunction with the thesis by Maria Steffen in 1996 at the Ruhrakademie Schwerte, supervised by Professor Gerd Aretz (photography) and Jörg Meyer (typography).
Die hier präsentierten Aufnahmen aus den Jahren 1924–1965 verdanken wir Jean Chęciński. Sie sind Zeugnis des Alltagslebens der polnischen Diaspora im elsässischen Kalirevier (Bassin Potassique).
At a school in Haren, a stage version of the graphic novel brought the story back to the town in which it was once set, offering new insights into a difficult chapter in German-Polish history.
1,400 men from the city were taken to a satellite concentration camp that had been set up near the ‘Adlerwerke’ factories in Frankfurt/Main, where they were put to work as forced labourers.
Sabina Kaluza’s works are deeply influenced by German-Polish history and the many complex contextual elements that surrounded her as the daughter of a German mother and a Polish father.
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...
