On 25th February 1943, one day after the arrest of his fiancée Maria Rondo, Tadeusz Borowski was arrested by the Gestapo in the house of Maria and Czesław Mankiewicz in the ulica Puławska. For the aut...
Poetic Jazz was set up by the Polish double bass player and composer Lech Wieleba in 2002, since when the band has enriched the traditions of Polish Jazz.
In his role as a radio director, writer and poet, Zdzisław (Rudolf) Nardelli was a leading cultural personality in Poland after the end of the Second World War. He was born on 18. October 1913 into an...
Are we looking at feel-good Germany or the forests of Mazovia, with their smell of leaves, mushrooms and melancholy? Małgosia Jankowska, born in Sochaczew, comes from a Polish district full of lakes a...
When the Allied 21st army group crossed the Rhine at the end of March 1945, the ground forces were closely followed by a number of so-called “Military Government Detachments”. During the occupation of...
For Germans Sonja Ziemann was “the great film star” and Marek Hłasko was only “her Polish husband”. For Poles he was “the great rebel author” and she was only “his German wife”. The best-known German/...
“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...
Today Wilhelmsburg is a district in the middle of Hamburg. But in 1900 Wilhelmsburg was an independent parish where the proportion of Polish immigrants in the population rose to over 20% for a short t...
His ideas on composition influenced young composers at the Berlin Academy of Arts (until 2001, after that University of the Arts) for almost 20 years – Professor Witold Szalonek.
Artur Brauner, one of the most important figures in German and international film in the post-war period, was born in Łódź in 1918, the son of Polish Jews, Moshe and Brana Brauner. His father was a su...
In the early 1980s no less than seven aircraft belonging to the Polish airline PLL LOT were hijacked to Tempelhof airport in what was then West Berlin.
“Myśliwska” was officially opened on 1st December 1990. The initiator and manager was the Polish artist Witold “Witek” Marcinkiewicz, who had been living in Berlin for years and had realised his dream...
