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...
Polish voices can be heard in one particular corner of Cologne Cathedral. Here people gather in front of the painted stone table of a mediaeval tomb and a classical wall tomb in the cathedral chapel o...
The famous picture of the “Hambach Festival” by Hans Mocznay depicts Hambach castle shining against the horizon. In the middle of the picture thousands of people are marching joyfully towards the cast...
The three Polish players Jakub Błaszczykowski, Łukasz Piszczek and Robert Lewandowski played a major role in this success of Borussia Dortmund (BVB) in the 2011/12 season.
For Polish immigrants it must have seemed like a Christmas miracle when the Polish priest Józef Szotowski was appointed to the post of chaplain at the parish of St. Peter in Bochum shortly before Chri...
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 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...
In a letter dated 24th of December 1537 to Bishop Paul Speratus, Duke Albrecht of Prussia expressed his dissatisfaction with the new archpriest of Lyck in the Duchy of Prussia near the border of the k...
The opera was Penderecki’s second commission in Germany. On the 20th June 1969, three years after the premiere of his "St Luke's Passion" in Münster Cathedral, Krzysztof Penderecki’s first opera "The ...
On 2nd November 1932 Jan Baczewski received to the foundation certificate for the first "Polish grammar school" in Germany, ten years after he had set up the League of Poles in Germany.
The name “Polish Pharmacy” existed until 1933 when the Nazis changed its name to "Dorothea Town Pharmacy". It was only after the building was redeveloped in 1998 that the words "Polish Pharmacy" and t...
