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.
Halfway through her painting course Karina Smigla-Bobinski gave up the two-dimensional media in order to experiment with light and video installations. From then on space has been her favourite place ...
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...
Krzysztof Meyer was born in 1943 in Krakow, where he lived until he moved permanently to Germany in 1987. For more than half a century he has been composing vocal and instrumental music for orchestra,...
In the decades following the end of the Second World War the relations between the GDR and the People’s Republic of Poland were no more than a “forced friendship”.
Katarzyna Myćka’s solo performances on the marimba have been celebrated all around the world. Between the 17th and 26th July 2015 she led the 7th International Katarzyna Myćka Marimba Academy, this ti...
Hermann Scheipers, a Catholic priest, honorary Canon of the Bishopric of Dresden-Meißen, and honorary Papal Prelate, was born on 24th July 1913 in Ochtrup in the region of Westphalia. Following his in...
Roland Schefferski was born in Kattowitz/Katowice in 1956. From 1971 to 1976 he attended the artistic grammar school in Breslau/Wrocław. Following this, from 1976 to 1981, he continued his studies in ...
Danuta Karsten, maiden name Chroboczek, was born in 1963 in the village of Mała Słońca, forty kilometres south of Danzig/Gdańsk. From 1978 to 1983 she attended the Artistic Lyceum in Gdynia. She subse...
When the Danzig journalist, writer and opposition activist Ewa Maria Slaska fled to West Berlin in 1985 she had no idea that just six months later she would be writing German-Polish television history...
When Tadeusz Kantor climbed into the plane to travel from Warsaw to Nuremberg on 29th April 1985 he was accompanied by the members of his famous theatre “Teatr Cricot 2“ who had already made a name fo...
The Bochum Art Museum (Kunstmuseum Bochum) probably contains the most comprehensive and important public collection of Polish 20th century art in Germany. In 2015 it comprised around 100 works from th...
When, in 1969, “Polskie Radio“ (Polish Radio) broadcast a jazz concert with Oscar Peterson on the piano and Ray Brown on the double bass a 14-year-old boy by the name of Vitold Rek was listening to hi...
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...
Jan Łukasiewicz was one of the most influential logicians of his time: a philosopher, mathematician and one-time Polish Education Minister. In December 1938, in the midst of increasing political tensi...
During the Second World War around 2,800,000 Polish forced labourers in Germany wore the letter ‘P’ on their clothing. The slave workers were forced to toil in factories and on farms for the German “f...
