Poetic Jazz was set up by the Polish double bass player and composer Lech Wieleba in 2002, since when the band has enriched the traditions of Polish Jazz.
Are we looking at feel-good Germany or the forests of Mazovia, with their smell of leaves, mushrooms and melancholy? Małgosia Jankowska, born in Sochaczew, comes from a Polish district full of lakes a...
When the Allied 21st army group crossed the Rhine at the end of March 1945, the ground forces were closely followed by a number of so-called “Military Government Detachments”. During the occupation of...
For Germans Sonja Ziemann was “the great film star” and Marek Hłasko was only “her Polish husband”. For Poles he was “the great rebel author” and she was only “his German wife”. The best-known German/...
“Ob blond, ob braun, ich liebe alle Frau'n!” (“Blondes, brunettes, I love all women”) When this hit song conquered the streets and courtyards of Germany in 1935 Jan Kiepura was at the peak of a worldw...
Today Wilhelmsburg is a district in the middle of Hamburg. But in 1900 Wilhelmsburg was an independent parish where the proportion of Polish immigrants in the population rose to over 20% for a short t...
Artur Brauner was born in 1918 in Łódź. His parents were Moshe und Brana Brauner. His father was a successful timber merchant. Artur’s original name was Abraham, but as early as his time in primary sc...
In the early 1980s no less than seven aircraft belonging to the Polish airline PLL LOT were hijacked to Tempelhof airport in what was then West Berlin.
“Myśliwska” was officially opened on 1st December 1990. The initiator and manager was the Polish artist Witold “Witek” Marcinkiewicz, who had been living in Berlin for years and had realised his dream...
Wanda Landowska is generally regarded as the person who revived classical harpsichord music. She is one of the most important pianists of the twentieth century.
A few months after the Kraków painter Wojciech Kossak arrived in Berlin in 1895 he wrote to his wife: “I have to make a fortune“. Within a year he managed to find a patron in the form of the German Ka...
Krzysztof Meyer was born in 1943 in Krakow, where he lived until he moved permanently to Germany in 1987. For more than half a century he has been composing vocal and instrumental music for orchestra,...
In the decades following the end of the Second World War the relations between the GDR and the People’s Republic of Poland were no more than a “forced friendship”.
Katarzyna Myćka’s solo performances on the marimba have been celebrated all around the world. Between the 17th and 26th July 2015 she led the 7th International Katarzyna Myćka Marimba Academy, this ti...
Hermann Scheipers, a Catholic priest, honorary Canon of the Bishopric of Dresden-Meißen, and honorary Papal Prelate, was born on 24th July 1913 in Ochtrup in the region of Westphalia. Following his in...
Roland Schefferski was born in Kattowitz/Katowice in 1956. From 1971 to 1976 he attended the artistic grammar school in Breslau/Wrocław. Following this, from 1976 to 1981, he continued his studies in ...
