Gdansk Old Town by night
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Discover Gdansk Old Town by night, sometimes referred to by its German name Danzig, a strategic and highly influential port for nearly a thousand years. What was once the stronghold of the Teutonic Knights and an influential city within the Hanseatic League during the Middle Ages has become northern Poland largest city and capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It gain notoriety in the 70s and 80's when it became the heart of political upheavals against communism and the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers on the Plac Solidarności visibly commemorate victims of the ancient regime.
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1. Gdansk Old Town by night
1. Gdansk prison tower and Torture Chamber: originally built in the 14th century as part of the city’s fortifications
2. Golden Gate: designed in a Dutch Mannerist style, located at one end of the Long Lane
3. Long Lane (Ulica Długa): Gdansk's most popular Medieval street with Dutch-inspired architecture
4. St. Mary's Church (Bazylika Mariacka): world's largest Gothic brick church fitting nearly 20,000 people
5. Main Town Hall (Ratusz Głównego Miasta): Gothic-Renaissance building dating back to the 14th century
6. Piwna Street: charming medieval street parallel to Long Lane
7. Baszta Jacek: Gdansk highest medieval towers built around 1400 and once part of the town's fortifications
The music soundtrack is Battle at the misty valley by zero-project and under Creative Commons (CC) licence Attribution and Share Alike and approved for commercial purposes.
HD travel documentary film created by Mat Siems with 5D Mark 3 and GlideGear Steadycam.
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Zdjęcia, montaż: Jacek Drofiak
Pilot drona: Artur Gajdziński
Muzyka: Joachim Horsley
Udźwiękowienie: Michał Baczuń
Ostrość bezprzewodowa: Maciej Tengli
Występują: ( )Edyta Zaboroś, Anita Zaboroś, Rafał Zaboroś, Ewelina Ciura, Anna Zielińska, Paulina Podleśna, Rafał Rybarczyk
POLAND/GERMANY: DISPUTE OVER PROPERTY DATING BACK TO WWII
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Bitter disputes over property dating back to World War II could become a major problem for the European Union's eastward expansion.
The German parliament has passed a resolution calling for Poland to admit the rights of German exiles to resettle in areas they inhabited before the war.
The resolution --which Germany wants to be a condition of Poland's entry into the E-U --has prompted fears in many Poles of losing their homes to a rush of returning Germans.
This is the German Club in the Polish city of Gdansk.
Some of the few ageing Germans who stayed behind after the Second World War meet to sing songs and read poetry in praise of the homeland they lost.
Gdansk was a free city between the wars, neither German or Polish.
But when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the city - then known as Danzig - was incorporated into Hitler's Third Reich.
After the war, the city became Polish and (m) millions of German residents were deported to Germany.
For decades, Poles in Gdansk have lived in houses owned by Germans during the war.
No one even considered the possibility of the original German owners returning.
But a resolution passed by the German parliament in May this year has changed matters.
The Bundestag demanded that ethnic Germans who lived in Poland before and during the war should be allowed to return.
The demand is particularly pressing as Germany wants to make this a condition of Poland's entry into the European Union.
However, many Germans want more than just the right to return - they also lay claim to the houses and land that they lost when they were expelled.
These Polish pensioners, like many in the old quarter of Gdansk, now fear they may lose their apartment.
The building where they live has already been claimed by a German citizen who owned it before the war.
But this couple believe that no German has any right to land in Poland.
SOUNDBITE: (Polish)
The Polish government should make it clear that no German should be able to come back and take back land. We Poles fought and died for this land. No German can come here and tell me that this belongs to him. A Pole will always live here.
SUPER CAPTION: Zdzislaw Popiel, Gdansk pensioner
The deed office at Gdansk's city hall is very busy these days.
Thousands of people have been rushing to secure new property rights in order to protect their homes from potential claimants.
Jacek Wojnarowski owns a house in a Gdansk neighbourhood built after the war.
Nevertheless, he is still afraid that a German citizen may try to claim the land on which his home is built.
He thinks that if the Polish government allows one land claim to go through, in would floods streams of requests.
SOUNDBITE: (Polish)
I think it would cause a tidal wave of compensation claims from Germans. They could always find an ancestor who had a deed to some property. And Germany is still a much, much more powerful country than Poland. It could dictate terms and conditions to Poland.
SUPER CAPTION: Jacek Wojnarowski, Gdansk homeowner
However, the group representing Germans expelled from territory given to Poland after the war is adamant that property must be returned.
Erika Steinbach, Chairwoman of the German Union of Expellees, sees clear precedents in international law for their demands.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
SUPER CAPTION: Erika Steinbach, Chairwoman of the German Union of Expellees)
Like those in this tour, most Germans returning to Gdansk just want to see where their parents and grandparents grew up.
But the thorny issue of compensation for expellees could become a major problem for the European Union's eastward expansion.
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US Secretary of State and Foreign Minister of Poland on the Middle East
Media Statement by Michael Pompeo, United States Secretary of State, and Jacek Czaputowicz, Foreign Minister of Poland on the challenges to peace and security in the Middle East.
Outside the Council Pompeo, joined by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Jacek Czaputowicz, who presided today’s session, spoke to the press.
Pompeo said, “the reason we don’t want that crude oil to go to Syria, I think is shared by the entire world. That crude oil will be offloaded, sold, used, by the Quds force, and organization that has killed countless Americans and people all across the world. And we want to deny them the resources to continue their horrific terror campaign all across the world. That’s the rationale for preventing a ship that’s loaded with crude oil arriving in Syria.”
Czaputowicz for his part, spoke about the “Warsaw Process” following the Ministerial meeting on the Middle East that took place in Warsaw, co-organized by Poland and the United States.
He said, “we believe that the Warsaw process will allow us to agree on further actions to improve security situation in the region. We need a positive approach in our opinion to restore peace and economic growth in the Middle East. Promoting entrepreneurship, strengthening good governance, combatting corruption, and ensuring access to education, are key to address social issues and to unlock economic potential of the region.”
Warszawski smog
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Poland: Judges from across EU join thousands to protest Polish court reforms
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Judges from across the European Union joined thousands of protesters as they marched through central Warsaw on Saturday to protest the Polish governments proposed reforms of the judiciary system, feared by protesters of undermining judicial independence.
Judges can be seen wearing traditional black dress and marching through the streets, where many Polish and European Union flags can be seen.
We stand with the Polish judges because they are seeking and making sure that there will be independence, but most of all we are here to make sure and to protect the rule of law because that is what judges pursue, said Irish judge John MacMenamin, who participated in the event.
The EU has accused the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party of politicising the judiciary ever since it came to power in 2015. PiS argues that the reforms are necessary to make Poland's courts more efficient.
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US-Poland Business Council's Stewart on Key Strategic Relationship
Eric Stewart, the president of the US-Poland Business Council, discusses the key strategic and industrial relationship between Washington and Warsaw with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
Poland: Protesters rally against military support for Ukrainian government
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M/S Small demonstration
M/S Jacek Mędrzycki speaking through a megaphone
C/U Boy holding a flag
M/S Boys holding flags
M/S Small demonstration
SOT, Jacek Mędrzycki, Protest organiser (Polish): The whole Ukrainian conflict is caused by external factors, just like it was in Yugoslavia, I do not see any reason for why our soldiers should fight there in the name of America's, or Western, interests. For me it is unacceptable.
M/S Small demonstrationll
C/U Man with beanie and dark glasses
M/S Small demonstration, man holding Belarussian flag
M/S Small demonstration seen from outside
M/S Banner of the 'Great Polish Camp' movement
M/S Mędrzycki addressing the demonstration via megaphone
M/S People watching
C/U Woman with dark glasses
M/S Banners, Sejim building in background
M/S Small demonstration
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A small group of demonstrators gathered in front of the Polish Sejim in Warsaw at 16:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday. The protesters oppose the Polish involvement in the crisis in Ukraine, in particular they spoke out against aid which was granted by Polish authorities to the Ukrainian government. The Polish military recently confirmed delivery of bulletproof vests and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine.
It was the latest in a series of similar demonstrations, which are often staged outside the Ukrainian embassy. Some demonstrators argued that the Ukrainian national movement is a threat to Poland.
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WARSAW - POLAND 8K
Warsaw Capital Of Poland in Stunning 8K UHD Quality(7680x4320). City Video Tour Around Old Town, City Center, Palace Of Culture And Science And More...
Lecture at the Land Force Military Academy, Wrocław, Poland
Dr Bartosiak’s lecture at the Land Force Military Academy, Wrocław, Poland, 12 June 2019.
„On War, Modern Battlefield and Force Projection”
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Poland: Warsaw expels 4 Russian diplomats over Skirpal case - FM
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Today, the Polish government made a decision to consider four Russian diplomats as a persona non grata in Poland, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz said in a presser from Warsaw on Monday.
The decision came as a show of solidarity with the UK over the attempted assassination of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a Novichok nerve agent.
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code::dive 2016 conference – Jacek Bochenek – Agility at scale with LeSS
Lecture was held on code::dive conference on November 15-16, 2016, Wrocław, Poland
Poland: German FM Maas confirms Berlin won't participate in US-led Hormuz patrols
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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas confirmed that Berlin would not participate in any US-led marine missions in the Strait of Hormuz, during a meeting with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw on Wednesday.
We consider the strategy of maximum pressure to be wrong. We do not want military escalation. We will continue to rely on diplomacy, Maas said with regards to Iran, during a joint press conference with Czaputowicz.
Maas is in Poland in occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a 63-day insurgent uprising against Nazi Germany back in 1944.
The bloody rebellion which took place in Warsaw, resulted to the death of around 18,000 fighters and over 180,000 civilians.
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Gdańsk Business Week 2017
Polish Fishing Port 'leba' (1947)
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Polish fishing village of Leba recovers from war damage and establishes sea training centre. Poland.
Various good shots waves breaking onto a stretch of sand. L/S a line of fishing boats drawn up to wooden jetties. M/S a fisherman drawing in a rope. C/U as a small child watches. L/S cadets rowing their boats out to sea. C/U the bearded instructor, Mr. Wladyslaw Niedzielko. M/S the boys rowing one of the boats. L/S a ship, in silhouette, being rowed against the sunset.
Various shots of a march through the streets, people hold up banners. M/S roadblock. It looks like people are voting for something (not sure if this part is connected to the rest of the item)
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CLOSE STRANGER. Polish-Lithuanian-Russian cooperation and cultural exchanges in years 2013/2015
The project was run by the Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad, Russia), the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk, Poland) and Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre (Klaipeda, Lithuania). By using a meaningful clash between the notions of “our” and “alien” we the partner institutions tried to explore and interpret the natural or imposed prejudices, stereotypes and contradictions that inhabit our territorial neighborhood, as well as attempted to find the “common” that makes us truly close and interesting, bound by amity and sympathy. Russian, Polish and Lithuanian curators, artists, art critics, writers, journalists and experts had to go to the core of this mythic duality that both unites and tears apart the three countries. “Are we close or are we strangers?” and how can we answer a question “What do we really know about each other?”. The film presents both the documentation of the activities carried out as well as reflections of people involved in this project.
Jacek Kuroń - Imprisonment once again (128/150)
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Polish activist Jacek Kuroń (1934-2004) helped to transform the political landscape of Poland. He was expelled from the communist party, arrested and incarcerated. He was also instrumental in setting up Workers' Defence Committee (KOR) and became a Minister of Labour and Social Policy. [Listeners: Jacek Petrycki, Marcel Łoziński; date recorded: 1987]
TRANSCRIPT: I tried to escape with the American TV crew who took me in their car back to their hotel, the Novotel. But soon after that, it turned out that the Novotel was surrounded and within a short time, two gentlemen came looking for me, in fact there were more than two, but of these two, one was from Gdańsk and the other one was my colonel, Lesiak, later he was a colonel, at that point he was still a captain, and then later still he became Major Lesiak, and he was constantly detaining me. Later, we were driving alone in a police van, going through the snow-covered streets of Gdańsk full of armoured vehicles, tanks, and the man from Gdańsk says to me, 'Well, Mr Kuroń, was it worth doing all those things that you did?' To which I replied, 'Do you remember how two years ago when you would come to get me, you would come in three maybe four cars, but today, look how many tanks you had to use to get me'. Lesiak leaned over to me and said, 'This time, it's very serious.' They set me down and his face was pale and frightened, tense not frightened, tense. They set me down outside some building and they led me downstairs, taking nothing from me, just going lower and lower and lower to some cellar. I entered this huge, enormous cellar the opposite wall of which was riddled with bullet holes, and there were lads wearing army fatigues standing against the wall holding machine guns, and they said, 'Up against the wall.' I quickly walked up to the opposite wall so that I could turn around and face death without really knowing why, as if facing it would be more comfortable because I wasn't going to start shouting. I wouldn't have yelled anything out. After a while, I saw they were just standing there and weren't shooting so I took a packet of cigarettes out of my bag, and then one said to the other, 'I could do with a smoke.' So I took out another packet and threw it to him saying, 'Here, take it.' He caught it, and I thought to myself, well there's not going to be any shooting because I thought if he takes the cigarettes, he won't shoot. I put my bag down, put it under my head and fell asleep. So prison started all over again, another three years, more than three years. But it was completely different from all the prison terms because soon after that, Gajka died. That just ended my life. Later I was released, I tried to do all kinds of things, I even tried to be very active, but none of it was as it had been, so I can't even talk about it.
ECS i UG zapraszają: Gdańskie Wykłady Solidarności – Wykład 12 Jacek Dominiczak
Architekci często definiują architekturę jako sztukę kształtowania przestrzeni. Architektura miejska wpływa na jakość życia oraz kształtowanie relacji międzyludzkich. Dominiczak nawiązując do filozofii Emmanuela Levinasa postrzega architekturę w perspektywie dialogicznej. Podstawowym poglądem tej metody projektowania jest pochwała różnorodności świata i architektonicznych różnic jego przestrzeni wnętrz. Projektowanie dialogiczne Dominiczak pokazał na przykładzie rozwiązań urbanistycznych Lizbony, Rzymu, Sztokholmu, Sopotu oraz wybranych dzielnic Gdańska – Przymorza, Chełmu, Głównego Miasta i Stoczni. Obecna kondycja miast jest, w jego przekonaniu, rezultatem sztuki egzystencjalnej samotności, a nie dialogicznego spotkania. Będąca jej rezultatem przestrzeń publiczna pełna różnych indywidualnych auto-ekspresji jest daleka od rozumienia jakości w kontekście perspektywy dialogicznej. Istotą przestrzeni publicznej nie jest wyposażenie jej w różnorodne elementy, ale istotą jest zbudowanie przyjaznej, niekiedy trudnej przestrzeni do tego, by ludzie lubili w niej być. Dominiczak zarzuca funkcjonalizmowi, że utożsamił funkcjonalność z łatwością.
Jacek Dominiczak jest architektem i profesorem Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku, na której prowadzi Pracownię Projektowania Wnętrz Miejskich. Zajmuje się teorią i metodologią projektowania dialogicznego. Jest autorem koncepcji Przestrzeni Dialogicznej (Miasto Dialogiczne, Architektura Dialogiczna) oraz Kodu Tożsamości Lokalnej – narzędzia projektowania miejskiej przestrzeni kulturowej. W 2004 roku reprezentował Polskę na 9. Międzynarodowej Wystawie Architektury organizowanej przez Biennale w Wenecji, podczas której prezentował pracę Delay(er)ing Facade, zbudowaną wspólnie z malarzem video-fresków Dominikiem Lejmanem.
Polish Street Guitarist Entertaining CracowTourists
The main square (Polish: Rynek Główny of the Old Town of Kraków, Lesser Poland, is the principal urban space located at the center of the city. It dates back to the 13th century, and at 3.79 ha (9.4 acres) is one of the largest medieval town squares in Europe. The Project for Public Spaces (PPS) lists the square as the best public space in Europe due to its lively street life,[3] and it was a major factor in the inclusion of Kraków as one of the top off-the-beaten-path destinations in the world in 2016.[4]
The main square is a square space surrounded by historic townhouses (kamienice) and churches. The center of the square is dominated by the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice), rebuilt in 1555 in the Renaissance style, topped by a beautiful attic or Polish parapet decorated with carved masks. On one side of the cloth hall is the Town Hall Tower (Wieża ratuszowa), on the other the 10th century Church of St. Adalbert and 1898 Adam Mickiewicz Monument. Rising above the square are the Gothic towers of St. Mary's Basilica (Kościół Mariacki). Kraków Main Square does not have a town hall, because it has not survived to the present day. - Wiki
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DAS MOON - CITY WILL
Track no. 4 from the official full playlist for 'DEAD' a 2017 album by DAS MOON (OUT now)
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WEEKEND IN PARADISE album (2014 CD & 2016 vinyl)
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DEAD Tour 2017:
4 V 2017 – Łódź | New York
5 V 2017 – Ostrów Wielkopolski | Fanaberia
6 V 2017 – Poznań | U Bazyla
20 V 2017 – Warszawa | Power of Modern Art | Jaga Hupało Studio (Noc Muzeów)
1 VI 2017 – Gdańsk | B 90m(support to Psychic TV)
2 VI 2017 – Bydgoszcz | Estrada Stage Bar
17 VI 2017 – Międzyrzecz | III Elektro-Industrialna Noc na Zamku w Międzyrzeczu
29 VII 2017 – Warszawa | Pogłos
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LYRICS:
CITY WILL
the city will
always be you
your hand will be
on my neck
and dirt that I
wanted to take
will be my sweetest
and the last
the city will
always be you
your hand will be
still on my neck
and dirt that I
wanted to have
will be my sweetest
sweetest and last
the camera will always catch
me and you the smell of your hair
sparks in my eyes when we lay
looking at stars on crystal meth
If only now I could sleep well
and only you wouldn't cry for help
If only now we could be friends
could have been love sweetest and last
looking at stars on crystal meth
could have been love sweetest and last
looking at stars on crystal meth
could have been love on crystal meth
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DAS MOON is a dark electro and alternative pop band from Warsaw, Poland. It is a musical travel from the past into the future of electronic music. Huge dose of synths is combined with industrial sounds of guitars, powerful drum beats and charismatic voice of Daisy K., the band’s vocalist and poet.
DAS MOON credits Einstürzende Neubaten, Laibach, The Prodigy, Kraftwerk, Sonic Youth, Detroit techno, Deadmau5 and Gus Gus among its main inspirations.
DAS MOON are: Daisy Kowalsky – vocalist and lyricist and DJ Hiro Szyma and Musiol – electronic musicians and producers.
Band's latest album „Dead” was released in April 2017 from Requiem Records. The album was produced by Paul Gavlic, mixed and mastered by a 2014 Grammy winner Jacek Gawłowski at JG Master Lab.
The bands 2nd album „Weekend in Paradise” (CD) version was released in Poland by Requiem Records and distributed by Sonic Records, with worldwide digital distribution on iTunes and elsewhere by Believe Digital. The album was produced by Paweł Gawlik at Sound Factory and mastered by a 2014 Grammy winner Jacek Gawłowski at JG Master Lab. Album's vinyl version was released in 2016 from Requiem Records.
DAS MOON’s first studio album „Electrocution” was released 2011. It was produced in Warsaw by Paweł Gawlik, mastered in New York at The Lodge by Emily Lazar and Joe LaPorta (Depeche Mode, The Prodigy, Björk), first released in Poland by Polskie Radio / Warner (CD) and digitally on iTunes.
Since 2011 Das Moon has been touring extensively, including major festivals: opened Electronic Beats Festival in Gdańsk before Jazzanova, Squarepusher and James Blake (2012), played at Wave Gotik Treffen (WGT) in Lepizig (Germany), the world’s biggest electro-industrial festival (2013), at Castle Party in Bolków, Poland, a biggest Central European festival of gothic, industrial and electronic music (2013, 2016), Mayday in Katowice Spodek (2015, 15th Anniversary Polish edition). The band has been sharing the stage with the genre’s legendary artists: Camouflage, Front Line Assembly, De/Vision and others.
In the years before creation of DAS MOON its members worked as Rh+ [a joint of audiovisual performers], an experimental electronic music and art collective, and presented their multimedia shows at music and theater festivals in Poland, Germany, Austria and Italy among others.