In this paper, the author presents a brief description of the place and role Poland’s in the memoires of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. Although, at the first view, it can be assumed that Poland and the Polish politicians don’t appear too often in Kohl’s report, it could be shown after a closer analysis that Kohl refers many times to both of them. Poland aroused a special interest, but also irritation, of the chancellor around 1990 as Germany was re-united and the negotiations regarding the common border between Poland and Germany were carried out, which is depicted in this paper

The article deals with various forms of teaching text composition for both native and non-native language speakers. A closer look at these forms includes an analysis of methods of evaluating writing ability, as well as the ability to recognize and to produce different text types.

The relation between meaning and intention is considered, reflecting the theoretical approaches of J.R. Searle in comparison with early phenomenological authors like A. Marty and the polish philosopher K. Twardowski. The latter is seen as a founder of important distinctions in the philosophy of language and semiotics, as for example the one between the content and the object of presentations. The Twardowskian concept of meaning is genuinely oriented towards the hearer, and in this respect it is different from that of J.R.Searle, who claims – in his intentionalist writings – that meaning consists only in representation, not in communication. Insofar Twardowski’s approach can be considered as constituting an influential – even though presently underestimated – impetus in direction of a communication-based conception of meaning within intentionalist semantics.

The aim of this article is to show the synchronic section of the maritime phraseology of the 18^th century on example of the multilingual dictionary Allgemeines Wörterbuch der Marine by Johann Hinrich Röding. This dictionary contains approximately 5000 lexicographic entries of the seamen’s language. Among them about 100 phrasemes from subject areas such as weather and tides, navigation, shipbuilding, parts of the ship, ship uptake and maintenance, seamen’s everyday life, orders and calls on ships.

The author presents the nature and objectives of a teaching subject, which is offered for several years on German Studies Institute at the University of Warsaw by employees of the Department of German-speaking courtiers as a part of Intercultural Communication specialization. Comparative studies in culture are a term, which differs from philological comparative studies. It means a sub-discipline, which concerned with aspects of culture outside of literature and linguistics, in this case with comparisons of German and Polish culture.

The Author analyses the situation of Slavic Studies at universities in Germany and describes the role of so-called Polonistik (Polish studies),  explaining that  the underlying ideas for Polish studies there radically differ from its equivalent as we know it in Poland. From this perspective, some of the judgments may appear  partisan. Since he refers mostly to the state of affairs in the 80’s and the 90’s,  the text may be seen as focused predominantly on history.

Auf Einladung des Verlags für Wissenschaften Peter Lang GmbH (Frankfurt
am Main) gemeinsam mit dem Ehrenpräsidenten der Internationalen
Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) und dem Verband Polnischer Germanisten
(VPG) fand am 24. März 2014 in der „neuen“ Universitätsbibliothek
der Universität Warschau die feierliche Präsentation der zu dem Zeitpunkt
in Gänze erschienenen 19 bändigen und rund 6 800 Seiten umfassenden
Edition der Akten des XII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses statt.
Der XII. Internationale IVG-Kongress tagte in der Zeit vom 30. Juli bis
7. August 2010 auf dem historischen Gelände der Warschauer Universität.