Film ("They built our house") and reading and discussion with Karolina Kuszyk.

The evening will open with a film by Małgorzata Frymus and Łukasz Nyks about lapidaries in and around Goleniów.

For 80 years, West Pomerania has been home to many Poles whose grandparents and parents came here after the Second World War. Today, many of them wonder who "built their home". Traces of the former inhabitants can be found today in lapidaries that have been set up in recent years in the villages around Goleniów and in Goleniów itself. Lapidaries were created for various reasons: out of shame to show descendants the destroyed cemeteries, which were overgrown with greenery or covered with rubbish; because someone had dug up fragments of gravestones from their own garden where they had been knocked over by a bulldozer years ago; because cast-iron, buried crosses were sticking out of the ground ...
Documentary / PL 2025 / Director: Małgorzata Frymus / Cinematographer: Łukasz Nyks / Original language / FSK12

After the film screening, Karolina Kuszyk will read from her book "In den Häusern der anderen: Traces of the German Past in Western Poland".

Poniemieckie is the name given in Poland to what was once German: places, buildings and objects that were left behind by millions of Germans when they fled westwards at the end of the Second World War. The new owners were Poles, often displaced or resettled themselves. What was a loss of home for some was a new beginning in a foreign land for others. Two ends of a story that shows how biographies and things are interwoven across time, national borders and generations to this day.
This book will help anyone who wants to understand the relationship between Poles and Germans in recent history: thoroughly researched, sensitive and intelligent.
Author: Karolina Kuszyk / Translator: Bernhard Hartmann / Publisher: Ch. Links Verlag

Venue: STRAZEsaal
Admission: from 7.30 pm
Start: 8 pm
Admission: free

An event organised by STRAZEkultur as part of the Greifswald Literature Festival.