Numerous churches in the Ruhr area reflect industrial history in the cultural, social and also national regard. Only some individual sacred items commemorate the “Ruhr Poles”.
The photos shown are part of a larger series by Brigitte Kraemer (*1954) from the project titled “Endlich so wie überall?” (“Finally just like everywhere?”) from 1985.
Brygida Wróbel-Kulik, born in 1952 in Chorzów, is a visual artist, painter, graphic artist, cartographer and creator of spatial installations, living in Düsseldorf.
The author and cultural journalist Agnieszka Lessmann (*1964) grew up in Poland, Israel and Germany. However, she and her parents would have preferred to remain in Poland.
Under the National Socialist regime, there were forced labourers in nearly all German villages, towns and communities. Hirzenhain was no exception. On 26 March 1945, the SS shot 87 forced labourers he...
The exhibition was created in conjunction with the thesis by Maria Steffen in 1996 at the Ruhrakademie Schwerte, supervised by Professor Gerd Aretz (photography) and Jörg Meyer (typography).
The photographs (1924–1965) shown here were gathered courtesy of Jean Chęciński and bear witness to the everyday life of the Polish diaspora in the Alsatian Bassin Potassique.
At a school in Haren, a stage version of the graphic novel brought the story back to the town in which it was once set, offering new insights into a difficult chapter in German-Polish history.
1,400 men from the city were taken to a satellite concentration camp that had been set up near the ‘Adlerwerke’ factories in Frankfurt/Main, where they were put to work as forced labourers.
Sabina Kaluza’s works are deeply influenced by German-Polish history and the many complex contextual elements that surrounded her as the daughter of a German mother and a Polish father.
What is little known is that Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941), legendary Polish pianist, composer and statesman, spent many years in Germany, especially in Berlin.
Her perfect technique and artistic sensitivity have made her an international name. In an interview with Porta Polonica, she talks about her musical passion and everything that Berlin has to offer.
Sometimes, it takes just one work to make an artist immortal. Jurek Becker ([1937]–1997) did just that with his novel “Jakob der Lügner” (“Jacob the Liar”).
Bascha Mika (*1954) is one of the Polish voices that command respect in the German media. Over the course of her career, she has held numerous management positions and has become a role model for an e...
