Bronisław Huberman (1882-1947), who in his day was the most famous Polish violinist in the world, lived and gave concerts in Germany during the First World War and the 1920s.
Bis heute fühlt sich der Autor weder als Pole noch als Deutscher – und weil seine Identität nicht eindeutig festgelegt ist, hat Dziuk schon früh seine Position in der Gesellschaft hinterfragt.
The author was born in Mainz, but he was conceived in Poland – his family’s country of origin. That is why he called himself, in his typically deprecating tone, “a little present from the old country”...
Bei den „Polenprozessen" wurde der Ludwik Mierosławski zum Tode verurteilt. Im Zuge der Märzrevolution von 1848 wurde er zunächst zu lebenslanger Gefängnishaft begnadigt und schließlich befreit.
Professor Jan von Mikulicz-Radecki is a remarkable person. As a brilliant surgeon, he founded the German and the Polish school of surgery, he invented medical instruments, he introduced new surgical t...
In ihrem 2015 erschienenen Comic überprüft die Illustratorin, Comic-Zeichnerin und Trickfilmerin die Erzählungen über Polen, mit denen sie in Deutschland aufgewachsen ist, in Krakau an der Realität.
It was the first and hitherto last time that the three-country, German-language TV broadcasting station “3Sat” recorded and broadcast a complete triptych directed by a Polish theatre director.
It is no coincidence that Brygida Helbig is classed as a German-Polish author. Hardly anyone in contemporary literature can describe the realities of both countries so accurately as the author who was...
Much more important than all titles and medals of the Polish athlete Maria Kwaśniewska, was a picture taken with Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the Olympic Games.
Where does the need for mergers in emigration come from? What problems do we have to contend with and what helps us to find ourselves and act together? How do social networks emerge in the real and vi...
Seit den 1970er Jahren setzte sich Jacek Kowalski, der damals in Poznań (Posen) und Halle (DDR) Germanistik studierte und später viele Abenteuer in der BRD erleben sollte, für die Unabhängigkeit Polen...
Caustic language, intransigence and a thirst for knowledge in the search for answers to questions about individual freedom and gender equality – that's the best way to describe the character of Margar...
"The concentration camps did not exist" - Zbigniew Muszyński heard this claim made by a German father and son at the party in Australian Perth. The son asked him "What did you do during the WWII?", Zb...
The theatrical and cultural scholar Andrzej Wirth, who died on 10th March 2019 in Berlin shortly before his 92nd birthday, was a professor in Stanford, New York, Oxford and Berlin, among other places....