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  • Władysław Kozakiewicz and the "Kozakiewicz Gesture", Moscow 1980

    Władysław Kozakiewicz - a pole vault away from Poland to Germany

    How must a person feel when he is bombarded with whistles of hatred – and that during the Olympic Games? The pole vault athlete Władysław Kozakiewicz can tell us from first-hand experience. He was in ...

  • Leszek Żądło, in concert 24.10.2012, Nuremberg, „Krakauer Turm”

    Leszek Żądło

    He was the first saxophone student in Poland at the Cracow music school. And in Germany he was the first saxophone professor at the Würzburg Academy of Music. Between the two dates lay a tumultuous Po...

  • Andrzej Szczypiorski

    Andrzej Szczypiorski

    In 2006, six years after his death, the former villa of the SS "inspector" Theodor Eicke in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now a young people's meeting place, was renamed the Andrzej Szczypiors...

  • Krzysztof Penderecki 2012. Alwernia. Krzysztof Penderecki podczas próby „Pasji według Świętego Łukasza” w reżyserii Grzegorza Jarzyny

    St. Pauls Cathedral, Münster / St. Luke’s Passion by Krzysztof Penderecki

    Krzysztof Penderecki was just 32 when his composition, the Passion of Saint Luke (»Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam« / The suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ accordin...