1088 heiratet der polnische Herzog Władysław I. Herman die Witwe des ungarischen Königs Salomon, Judith von Schwaben, eine Tochter von Kaiser Heinrich III. aus dem Geschlecht der Salier.
Bodo Hombach recalls the period when the now legendary portfolio of Solidarność posters was published during the political turmoil in Poland from 1980 to 1982.
On the morning of 7 November 1938, a 17-year-old Jewish boy with German-Polish roots, Herschel Grynszpan (Grünspan) carried out an assassination attempt at the German Embassy in Paris and became – as ...
Jan Polack (um 1450-1519) gilt als führender Maler der Spätgotik in München. Seine Herkunft aus einer polnischen Familie ist wahrscheinlich, aber nicht gesichert.
The simple gravesite gives no hint of the life story, successes and defeats of one of the greatest campaigners for farmers’ rights in the Second Polish Republic. Neither do we learn of the tragedy tha...
2014, the Ambassador for the Republic of Poland in Germany, Jerzy Margański, presented Wojciech Drozdek with the Officer’s Cross and Barbara Nowakowska-Drozdek with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of ...
Since 2008 the culture of the Ruhr area has staged the “Kosmopolen” initiative and brought it to exhibition spaces in Bochum and the surrounding areas.
The understanding of transnational spaces and the identities is critical to the characterisation of employees with cross-border Polish-German roots at Opel Bochum.
At the age of two, the journalist Jurek Skrobala came to Germany from Wrocław with his parents. He grew up on the edge of the Ruhr area, with Poland a place within him that he longed for.
What and how, who and why are the questions Urszula Usakowska-Wolff, who was born in the Polish capital in 1954, uses to attempt to describe her world.
