The life of the outstanding artist, Janina Kłopocka, the creator of the graphic emblem of the Union of Poles in Germany, the so-called “Rodło“ sign, is a typical example of the knotty fate of Poles in...
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....
The Polish artist and theatre maker, Józef Szajna, was imprisoned in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He spent almost two years in Maczków (Haren) on the Ems.
When a young person has to change not only the place where they live, but also their country, their language, their surroundings and their familiar environment, things are somewhat shaky at the start.
Die Ausstellung „Frömmigkeit und Nachtgesichte. Naive Kunst aus Polen im Spiegel der Moderne“ fand vom 21. Februar bis 10. April 2016 in der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen statt.
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...
