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"The Silesian Weavers" (also: Weaver-song) is a poem by Heinrich Heine written in 1844. It is exemplary of the political poetry of 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 drew attention to the grievances originated in the context of industrialization. Friedrich Engels was the first to translate the poem into English.

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The Silesian Weavers

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"The Silesian Weavers" (also: Weaver-song) is a poem by Heinrich Heine written in 1844. It is exemplary of the political poetry of the Vormärz movement...

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The Weavers

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suggestion, the group took its name from a play by Gerhart Hauptmann, Die Weber (The Weavers 1892), a powerful work depicting the uprising of the Silesian weavers...

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History of Silesia

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costing many linen weavers their profession. As social conditions worsened, growing unrest culminated in the Silesian cotton weavers' uprising (German:...

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Deaf to Our Prayers

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is the fourth full-length album by the German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn. The title was inspired by the famous poem "The Silesian Weavers" by...

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Industrialization in Germany

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became unemployed. The best known in this context are the Silesian weavers. Since most of the new industries initially provided work for the local lower classes...

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German Confederation

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the era of guilds in the small German princely states. This led to the 1844 revolt of the Silesian Weavers, who saw their livelihood destroyed by the...

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Heinrich Heine

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was 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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Wolfgang Steinitz

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work was the collection of German folk songs that were directed against war, oppression, and misery, from the songs of the Silesian weavers to soldier...

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Gerhart Hauptmann

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followed by The Reconciliation (1890), Lonely People (1891) and The Weavers (1892), a powerful drama depicting the rising of the Silesian weavers in 1844...

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Wilhelm Wolff

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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...

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Frederick the Great

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Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Silesian wars, his reorganisation...

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Bielawa

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Langenbielau; Silesian: Bielawa) is a town in southwestern Poland. Since 1999, it has been situated in Dzierżoniów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship....

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Moritz Jursitzky

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Vienna) was an Austrian-Silesian writer. Born as a son of a weaver master craftsman, Moritz Jursitzky worked as well as a weaver for a long time. Only late...

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Pieszyce

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Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) Gmina Pieszyce. It is situated in the historic...

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Technology in Silesia

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metallurgy under the direction of the Count Frederic Wilhelm von Reden. Upper Silesian heavy industry, for two centuries, occupied the leading position...

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Tartan

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were produced by local weavers for local tastes, using the most available natural dyes. The Dress Act of 1746 attempted to bring the warrior clans there...

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Kowary

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Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge) is a town in Jelenia Góra County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, with a population of around 11,000...

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