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.
Halfway through her painting course Karina Smigla-Bobinski gave up the two-dimensional media in order to experiment with light and video installations. From then on space has been her favourite place ...
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 ...
Danuta Karsten, maiden name Chroboczek, was born in 1963 in the village of Mała Słońca, forty kilometres south of Danzig/Gdańsk. From 1978 to 1983 she attended the Artistic Lyceum in Gdynia. She subse...
When the Danzig journalist, writer and opposition activist Ewa Maria Slaska fled to West Berlin in 1985 she had no idea that just six months later she would be writing German-Polish television history...
