In 2011, a slim volume was published that caused quite a stir in Germany. Sharp-eyed readers may already have raised an eyebrow: is the author’s name really Justyna Polanska?
Anna Tatarczyk’s works transport the observer into a world of colour, light, and form that at first sight look like a clear geometric structure. However, a closer look reveals the multi-layered dimens...
She inherited her love for discovering and portraying characters and stories from her family. Today she lives in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, and has long spoken German better than Polish.
On 26 November 2024, the footballer Jan Furtok died of Alzheimer’s disease in his birthplace of Katowice, aged just 62. In Poland, Furtok is a legend. In Germany, he is particularly well remembered in...
Son of a well-to-do-family, party functionary, sports reporter. Konrad Glücksmann-Gruda (1915–2012) was a colourful personality who wanted to make the best of difficult situations.
In order to gain access to information, Halina Kłąb-Szwarc (1923–2002) transformed herself into a thoroughly German woman. Her major achievements include the localisation of important military facilit...
With her “Offene Augen” (“Open Eyes”) puppet theatre in Bielefeld, Maria Końska-Chmielecki (1954–2022) masterfully combined her passion for art with her career as a psychologist.
The author Mariusz Hoffmann spent his childhood in Zalesie, a small village where even then it felt as though time had stood still. His parents then decided to move to Germany in search of a better li...
Kurz vor dem Weihnachtsfest des Kriegsjahres 1942 wurde im nordpfälzischen Kerzenheim bei Kirchheimbolanden der polnische Zwangsarbeiter Leon Dudas erhängt, sein „Vergehen“ hatte einzig darin bestande...
Marta Smolińska (*1975), passionate art historian and curator from Rypin, has already curated over 100 exhibitions in Poland and multiple exhibitions in Germany.
One of the few remaining religious artefacts bearing witness to the many Poles who settled in the Ruhr region during the early 20th century is a stained-glass window image of Stanislaus Kostas in Reck...
The German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) is one of the largest state-funded cultural institutions in Europe. Since 2023, the Foundation has been headed by a Pole: Katarzyna W...
On entering the church of St. Clemens Maria Hofbauer, you immediately notice a full devotional ensemble consisting of the merciful Jesus, a blood relic of the Polish pope John Paul II (1978–2005) and ...
Jacek Głaszcz, urodzony 1958 w Łodzi, od 1983 w Niemczech, polski aktor, lalkarz (teatr Pinokio, Łódź; Guliwer, Warszawa), promotor polskiej kultury w Niemczech.
Jacek Głaszcz, born in Łódź in 1958, ...
In 1831, many Poles had been forced to leave their country as a result of the failed November Uprising. This article explores the scholarships at the University of Heidelberg using the example of the ...
