Bürgersohn, Soldat, Funktionär, Sportreporter. Konrad Glücksmann-Gruda (1915–2012) war eine schillernde Persönlichkeit, die in allen Phasen ihres langen Lebens aus schwierigen Situationen das Beste fü...
Um an Informationen heranzukommen, verwandelte sich Halina Kłąb-Szwarc (1923–2002) in eine „waschechte Deutsche“. Zu ihren größten Errungenschaften zählt die Lokalisierung wichtiger Militäreinrichtung...
Mit ihrem Puppentheater „Offene Augen“ in Bielefeld hinterließ sie einen bleibenden Eindruck und verstand es meisterhaft, ihre Leidenschaft für die Kunst mit ihrem Beruf als Psychologin zu verbinden.
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, 1958 in Łódź geboren, seit 1983 in Deutschland wohnhaft, polnischer Schauspieler, Puppenschauspieler (Pinokio, Łódź; Guliwer, Warschau), Förderer der polnischen Kultur in Deutschland.
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 ...
In 1833, liberals and students attempted a coup in Frankfurt by storming the police stations Hauptwache and Konstablerwache, in which Poles also actively participated.
The artist Angelika J. Trojnarski (born in Mrągowo, Poland, in 1979) often takes up conflicting elements in her work, contradictions that cannot be easily resolved.
Arka (Arkadiusz) Bożek (1899–1954) – activist of the Polish minority in the Oppeln (Opole) region in the interwar period, member of the leadership of the Union of Poles in Germany (ZPwN), well-known s...
