Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 (German: Schlesischer Weberaufstand) was a revolt against contractors who supplied the weavers of Silesia with raw...
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the Vormärz movement. It is about the misery of the Silesian weavers, who in 1844 ventured an uprising against exploitation and wage decreases, and thereby...
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most important drama, sympathetically portrays a group of Silesian weavers who staged an uprising in 1844 due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution...
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by Gerhart Hauptmann, Die Weber (The Weavers 1892), a powerful work depicting the uprising of the Silesian weavers in 1844 which contains the lines, "I'll...
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History of Silesia (redirect from Silesian history)
costing many linen weavers their profession. As social conditions worsened, growing unrest culminated in the Silesian cotton weavers' uprising (German: Schlesischer...
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direction was by Andrej Andrejew. During the 1840s a group of Silesian weavers stage an uprising due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution's impact...
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proletariat." Gerhart Hauptmann's play Die Weber (The Weavers) is based on Wolff's essay about the weavers' uprising in Silesia in 1844 and its suppression, Das...
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1844, he created his best known work: The Silesian Weavers [de], inspired by an uprising staged by the weavers of Silesia earlier that same year; an event...
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Käthe Kollwitz (section The Weavers)
saw a performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers, which dramatized the oppression of the Silesian weavers in Langenbielau and their failed revolt in...
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Świdnica (category Articles containing Silesian-language text)
Schweidnitz; Czech: Svídnice; Silesian: Świdńica) is a city on the Bystrzyca River in south-western Poland in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. As of 2021, it...
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Bielawa (category Articles containing Silesian-language text)
the village was occupied by France. In 1844 it was the site of the Weavers' Uprising, brutally crushed by the Prussians. From 1871 to 1945 it was part...
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Oława (category Articles containing Silesian-language text)
[ˈoːlaʊ] , Silesian: Oława) is a historic town in south-western Poland with 33,029 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in Lower Silesian Voivodeship,...
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the small German princely states. This led to the 1844 revolt of the Silesian Weavers, who saw their livelihood destroyed by the flood of new manufactures...
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Egypt on January 28. After 18 days, the uprising forced President Hosni Mubarak to resign. In a Bahraini uprising that started on February 14, 2011, Facebook...
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Silesia. From the beginning of the Weimar Republic, he was a member of the Silesian Provincial Parliament. He also represented the SPD as a deputy in the Prussian...
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Scottish clan; like other materials, tartan designs were produced by local weavers for local tastes, using the most available natural dyes. The Dress Act...
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his least typical, Die schlesischen Weber ("The Silesian Weavers"), based on the uprising of weavers in Peterswaldau in 1844. In October 1843, Heine's...
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strong competition. During the Vormärz, tailors, cobblers, carpenters and weavers were the main over-subscribed trades. The rise in the lower classes in...
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van Nierop, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (d. 1682) Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (d. 1664) Li Yu, Chinese writer (d. 1680) François Eudes de...
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theologian, translator (d. 1705) December 2 – Karolina of Legnica-Brieg, Silesian noblewoman (d. 1707) December 9 Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician...
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proclamation urging Croatians to rebel against the Habsburg rulers. The uprising fails and Zrinski and his brother-in-law, Krsto Frankopan, are quickly...
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HarperCollins Entertainment. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-00-721510-2. "Army Ready For Silesian Plebiscite Today", The New York Times, March 20, 1921, p1 "Germany Faces...
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