Mass-media in the Life and Work o f the Polish parish in Hamburg 1976-1985

Abstract

The author, who is the parish-priest of the Polish parish in Hamburg, shows various forms of using mass-media in the pastoral work and in the cultural life of the parish.

They include:

– publishing three Polish periodicals;
– printing of over ten publications, mainly of pastoral character, which is financed by the Parish Fund of Religious Publications "Buchdrück";
– developing reading habits which is based on the parish library;
– printing Christmas and Easter cards and posters with Polish religious motives;
– showing films /religious and other/;
– organizing concerts of famous choirs from Poland, etc.

Some of the above mentioned activities were realised - in cooperation with the local Catholic Church and the German community. It served popularizing Polish culture and the problems connected with Poland in Germany.