Roman Witold Ingarden, the greatest Polish phenomenologist, can be placed in the ranks of classic philosophers. His Opus Magnum “Controversy on the Existence of the World” can be compared with Aristop...
The first congress of Poles in Germany took place in Berlin on 6th March 1938. It was the largest manifestation of Poles in Germany. Around 5000 people from different parts of Germany took part in the...
The “Kulturwehr” was the organ of the “Union of National Minorities“, which united the leading organisations of the Polish, Danish, Sorb, Friesland and Lithuanian minorities in Germany.
His football career would have put all the Klos’ and Podolskis in the shade. The way he played would have made him a superstar today like Messi, Ronaldo and Lewandowski. For he was the leading goalsco...
The Polish football team has never won a match against Germany, and on the day of the semi-final match in the 1974 World Cup they were never so close. But instead of going down in history as the first...
According to the Berlin tourist guide Tomek, “the Reichstag stands on Polish ground”. This proud remark arouses particular interest in tourists from Poland.
After losing the battle of Maciejowice 1794 the Polish supreme commander Tadeusz Kościuszko is supposed to have spoken these words “Finis Poloniae” (The end of Poland).
How must a person feel when he is bombarded with whistles of hatred – and that during the Olympic Games? The pole vault athlete Władysław Kozakiewicz can tell us from first-hand experience. He was in ...
He was the first saxophone student in Poland at the Cracow music school. And in Germany he was the first saxophone professor at the Würzburg Academy of Music. Between the two dates lay a tumultuous Po...
Polish voices can be heard in one particular corner of Cologne Cathedral. Here people gather in front of the painted stone table of a mediaeval tomb and a classical wall tomb in the cathedral chapel o...
The famous picture of the “Hambach Festival” by Hans Mocznay depicts Hambach castle shining against the horizon. In the middle of the picture thousands of people are marching joyfully towards the cast...
The three Polish players Jakub Błaszczykowski, Łukasz Piszczek and Robert Lewandowski played a major role in this success of Borussia Dortmund (BVB) in the 2011/12 season.
For Polish immigrants it must have seemed like a Christmas miracle when the Polish priest Józef Szotowski was appointed to the post of chaplain at the parish of St. Peter in Bochum shortly before Chri...
In 2006, six years after his death, the former villa of the SS “inspector” Theodor Eicke in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now a young people’s meeting place, was renamed the Andrzej Szczypiors...
Krzysztof Penderecki was just 32 when his composition, the Passion of Saint Luke (“Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam” / The suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ accordin...
In a letter dated 24th of December 1537 to Bishop Paul Speratus, Duke Albrecht of Prussia expressed his dissatisfaction with the new archpriest of Lyck in the Duchy of Prussia near the border of the k...
The opera was Penderecki’s second commission in Germany. On the 20th June 1969, three years after the premiere of his "St Luke's Passion" in Münster Cathedral, Krzysztof Penderecki’s first opera "The ...
