It's the most easterly in Germany and the first German - Polish Schalke fanclub. For the 'Royalblues home games in Gelsenkirchen, we have to travel 600 kilometres. There's plenty of time for German and Polish neighbours to get to know each other and overcome their fears and prejudices - if they want to. Not all Poles are thieves or cigarette smugglers and not all Germans are arrogant or neo-Nazis. Football is more than 90 minutes on the pitch or in front of the box.
Football is a feeling, maybe even a movement.
And it's that which his barrier breaking work exemplifies. Schalke is a cult, a religion Wengerek is the spiritual father of this unusual and idiosyncratic project. I believe in a Utopian Europe and I'm an anti-racist. He's a fully fledged Germanist and has been a voting Frankfurter since 1995. Witnessing events such as the awful violence between Polish hooligans and German skinheads during a Poland - Germany game in September 1996, served to strengthen Wengerek's belief.