Mr Grunwald: Seems fair really, it's worse with the Sweeds ;)
Fair???
What's fair about keeping german culture hostage? It won't become polish heritage, no matter what they do or how long they are keeping it...Where is the sense in that?
http://www.cracowonline.com/193,Controversy_over_Germanys_cultural_her itage.htm
... The collection is gigantic, with tens of thousands of documents. They include original manuscripts - some autographed - from such world-famous writers and composers as Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Johannes Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Goethe is one of the giants of German literature and a key figure in the Weimar Classicist Movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Bach's religious and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments were the zenith of Baroque music. Beethoven, a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, was one of the greatest composers ever. Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He is still one of the most popular European composers, his works part of the standard concert repertoire.
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Along with manuscripts of Goethe, Mozart, Beethoven and Bach, the collection contained manuscripts of Friedrich Schiller, the German poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist, and of the composer Robert Schumann archives. The public still does not know the scope of the entire collection because a list of all the documents has yet to be published, according to a library official who asked to remain anonymous.
PS: The handwritten original of our anthem by Fallersleben is also part of the Berlinka!
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