Stanisław Sierakowski is a commendable, interesting personality who has unjustly fallen into oblivion today. He belonged to a renowned Polish aristocratic family and was the first chairman of the Leag...
The so-called Poland songs were written after the Polish uprising in Germany in November 1830. The authors were not so much concerned with casting an eye on Poland. Their main target was the political...
Selmar Cerini (real name Salomo Izich-ha-Kohen Steifmann) was born into an orthodox Jewish Polish family on 15th December 1860 in Wólka near Warschau, at the time part of the Russian partition sector....
“Ob blond, ob braun, ich liebe alle Frau'n!” (“Blondes, brunettes, I love all women”) When this hit song conquered the streets and courtyards of Germany in 1935 Jan Kiepura was at the peak of a worldw...
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.
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...
There are two moments in history when German enthusiasm for Poland was particularly manifest and these have left their mark until the present day: 1831 and 1981.
Stanisław Mikołajczyk is one of the most famous Poles to have come from the Ruhr area. He was born on 18th July 1901 in Holsterhausen (today Herne) and later became the Minister President of the Polis...
An jenem Donnerstag, dem 17. März 1796, konnten nur wenige von den geladenen Gästen der Hochzeitsgesellschaft ahnen, dass die große Liebe der jungen Eheleute, nicht nur zwei Menschen, sondern auch gle...
In 2011 the Polish Sejm secured the return from Germany of all the documents, writings and personal objects belonging to the writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. They had previously been lent to the eponym...
On 31st May 1919 a body was fished out of the Landwehrkanal in Berlin. It was quickly clear that it was the missing Rosa Luxemburg. It was also clear that she had been murdered: and that the motive wa...
The publication of Stanisław Przybyszewski’s “On the Psychology of the Individual” was a bombshell that unleashed a blazing fire for a modern version of the “Sturm und Drang” movement in Berlin. Stani...
In 1960 the town of Bochum opened the Kunstmuseum Bochum (as it is now known), in order to be a “foster town” for the pictorial arts alongside its support for music and drama. The town council had de...
