THREE PUBLICATIONS ON POLISH CULTURE

German-Polish relations are a many-faceted topic with great historical as well as current relevance. Scholars worldwide, interested in Poland, her history and culture cannot avoid this topic, just as they cannot avoid the topic of Poland and Russia. These neighbor countries have been interacting with each other for too long for us not to be cognizant of these relationships. The Deutsches Polen-Institut, founded by Karl Dedecius, has therefore assumed the role of focal point in the promotion of improved German-Polish knowledge of each other, realizing that defective knowledge has been the greatest impediment to good-neighborly relationships. It has done so with the support of German governmental institutions (the Cultural Affairs Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bonn) of which this present, very well prepared volume (Jahrbuch des Deutschen Polen-Instituts No. 6 in the annual series) gives testimony. These volumes, not previously reviewed in The Polish Review, are essentially a resume of events in the cultural field relating to Germany and Poland for the preceding year, here the year 1944, with the publication of the Annual [Jahrbuch ] being scheduled regularly for the following spring (1995). Deutsch-Polnische Ansichten zur Literatur und Kultur opens with a preface [ Vorwort ] making brief mention of the topics presented and the individual contributors. The main body of the work is divided into five sections: Essay,