The understanding of transnational spaces and the identities is critical to the characterisation of employees with cross-border Polish-German roots at Opel Bochum.
At the age of two, the journalist Jurek Skrobala came to Germany from Wrocław with his parents. He grew up on the edge of the Ruhr area, with Poland a place within him that he longed for.
What and how, who and why are the questions Urszula Usakowska-Wolff, who was born in the Polish capital in 1954, uses to attempt to describe her world.
Die 3. Sinfonie von Górecki wurde 1976 vom Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden in Auftrag gegeben und uraufgeführt. Erst in den 1990er-Jahren wurde sie international bekannt.
Alicja Kwade, born in Katowice, Poland in 1979, has lived in Germany since 1986. She is one of the best known and sought-after artists of her generation.
He is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century: Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lwów, a town caught between cultures, and died as a poet between cultures.
On 29 November 1942, a young man, just 19 years old, fell on the Eastern front as a solider in the Wehrmacht. He is one of many Ruhr Poles in the German Wehrmacht whose story has not yet been told.
Her suspense-packed novels captivate thousands of Poles, have won prizes and been translated into a number of languages. In Germany, however, only a few know the work of the Berlin-based author.
Polish workers have played a central role in the history of Bochum as a city, particularly in the period defined by mining and the iron and heavy industries.
Marek Radke was born in Olsztyn on 11 February 1952. He has lived in Germany since 1983. His artistic endeavour mainly encompasses painting, sculpture and installation. Marek Radke lives and works in ...
In the “Polish period” of the city from 1945 to 1948, the Polish Catholic church in Maczków (Haren an der Ems) kept classic church records meticulously according to church law.
The extraordinary story of his survival only became known worldwide through the film “The Pianist”, by the Polish director Roman Polański, which won three Oscars.
