It is a paradox: Depending on how you count, people from Poland are the second largest migrant group in contemporary Germany, yet hardly anyone talks about them.
Bei den „Polenprozessen" wurde der Ludwik Mierosławski zum Tode verurteilt. Im Zuge der Märzrevolution von 1848 wurde er zunächst zu lebenslanger Gefängnishaft begnadigt und schließlich befreit.
The first Polish bookshop in the Federal Republic of Germany was set up in Berlin Charlottenburg in 1979. What it offered went far beyond just selling publications that were censored in Poland at that...
Professor Jan von Mikulicz-Radecki is a remarkable person. As a brilliant surgeon, he founded the German and the Polish school of surgery, he invented medical instruments, he introduced new surgical t...
In ihrem 2015 erschienenen Comic überprüft die Illustratorin, Comic-Zeichnerin und Trickfilmerin die Erzählungen über Polen, mit denen sie in Deutschland aufgewachsen ist, in Krakau an der Realität.
The “Narodowiec” was a Polish language newspaper in the Ruhrgebiet, which, shortly before the beginning of the First World War and in the years following, had a similar circulation to that of the “Wia...
The commemorative structure in Lendringsen cemetery is dedicated to the forced labourers from different countries who lost their lives working underground for the National Socialist regime.
Towards the end of the Second World War, three satellites of the Neuengamme concentration camp were built on a site that is now part of the town of Porta Westfalica in East Westphalia. The camps held ...
It was the first and hitherto last time that the three-country, German-language TV broadcasting station “3Sat” recorded and broadcast a complete triptych directed by a Polish theatre director.
Can there be art after Auschwitz? This question was pursued on a recent study trip involving twelve participants from the International Association for Education and Exchange (IBB for short) and the D...
In the town of Witten, in the south-east of the Ruhr region, up to 25,000 people from different countries, including several hundred Poles, were forced to work for the National Socialist regime during...
It is no coincidence that Brygida Helbig is classed as a German-Polish author. Hardly anyone in contemporary literature can describe the realities of both countries so accurately as the author who was...
Within the framework of the fifth group exhibition to mark the 100-year anniversary of Bauhaus, Roland Schefferski is showing works in the Galerie Bernau that are not just there to be looked at.