The article is about the nationwide ‘the most beautiful German word’ contest in Poland. The contest was organised in summer 2015 by the author of this article, in her role as the Lektor of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the German Department of the University of Wrocław, in collaboration with the cultural manager of the DSKG. All speakers of German as a foreign language in Poland were invited to participate in this contest by sending a word they personally considered the most beautiful, along with a short explanation of their choice. More than 200 wonderful texts were sent. This article gives an overview over the organisation of the contest and the corpus of all the texts which have been compiled in a book.