German Unity Day, or Tag der Deutschen Einheit, is celebrated on October 3 and commemorates the country’s reunification in 1990. On this occasion, the German Consul General, Marc Eichhorn, along with his wife Susanne Eichhorn, invited everyone to join in celebrating this important event in Kraków as well. The International Cultural Center also joined in the festive celebrations of this holiday.
The International Cultural Centre has been collaborating with German institutions for years. In recent years, the ICC Gallery has presented a series of exhibitions introducing German culture and art to the Polish public. These included “Unwanted Capital: Architecture and Urban Planning in Kraków During the German Occupation, 1939–1945” (2022), “More than Bauhaus. German photography between the wars and Polish parallels” (2021), “Max Ernst: An Ornithologist’s Dreams” (2016), and “GDR. Stories from a vanished country” (2012). Together with the German Consulate General, we also organized a lecture by Nora Ebneth: “Chopin in the Third Reich – Idealized, Appropriated,
Photo courtesy of the German Consulate General in Kraków / Z. Pilawski