Bodo Hombach recalls the period when the now legendary portfolio of Solidarność posters was published during the political turmoil in Poland from 1980 to 1982.
On the morning of 7 November 1938, a 17-year-old Jewish boy with German-Polish roots, Herschel Grynszpan (Grünspan) carried out an assassination attempt at the German Embassy in Paris and became – as ...
Jan Polack (ca. 1450–1519) is considered one of the most important painters of the late Gothic period in Munich. It is likely, though not certain, that he came from a Polish family.
The simple gravesite gives no hint of the life story, successes and defeats of one of the greatest campaigners for farmers’ rights in the Second Polish Republic. Neither do we learn of the tragedy tha...
2014, the Ambassador for the Republic of Poland in Germany, Jerzy Margański, presented Wojciech Drozdek with the Officer’s Cross and Barbara Nowakowska-Drozdek with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of ...
Since 2008 the culture of the Ruhr area has staged the “Kosmopolen” initiative and brought it to exhibition spaces in Bochum and the surrounding areas.
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.
Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 was commissioned in 1976 by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra and premièred in the same year. It only became internationally known in the 1990s.
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.
