Cultural festival of the German minority in Poland
The cultural festival of the German minority in Poland is a cultural event of the German minority in Poland that takes place regularly in Wroclaw .
At the cultural festival of the German minority, dance and music groups, choirs and orchestras from the German minority from all over Poland present themselves with a musical program on a main stage and other stages in the corridors and outside. Exhibitions are also a permanent feature. So far the festival has taken place every three years. The first cultural festival took place on 4 October 2003 in the Jahrhunderthalle in Breslau instead. There were 6,000 spectators at the first festival. On September 9, 2006, the second festival took place in Kandrzin-Cosel ( Kędzierzyn-Koźle ), the program also included the appearance of pop singer Michelle .
With the festival, the German minority not only wants to preserve German traditions and culture and bring them closer to members of the minority, but also to introduce them to the Polish population.
The third festival took place on September 12th, 2009 in the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw. The festival started with a solemn mass in the Wroclaw Cathedral at 10 a.m. With around 8,000 visitors, this was the largest cultural festival to date. The motif of the posters for the third festival, a wind turbine with the colors of the German and Polish flags, was then even adopted as the logo of the German Social-Cultural Society in Wroclaw .
The fourth festival took place on September 29, 2012 in the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw. The musical highlight of the cultural festival was the appearance of German pop singer Heino . In a sense, his appearance was a late satisfaction for the Silesians . In 1997 the German media reported that the men's choir in Falkensee, Brandenburg, refused to perform with Heino at a concert if he insisted on the Schlesierlied. Due to good relations with Polish partner choirs, they did not want to sing this hymn, because the Polish friends might think that the male choir Falkensee wanted Silesia back for Germany. A feature section at that time was concerned with a. thus under the title "The freedom of censorship". In 2012, Heino sang the Silesian song free of censorship in front of numerous Polish friends in Silesia. On the occasion of the cultural festival, members of the DSKG Breslau as part of the "Angestrickt" project decorated the station near the Centennial Hall and nearby trees with knitting.
Andy Borg was invited as the star guest to the fifth festival on September 26, 2015, also in the Wroclaw Centennial Hall , and Stefanie Hertel on September 23, 2018 .