The Texas Wends or Wends of Texas are a group of people descended from a congregation of approximately 558 Sorbian/Wendish people under the leadership and pastoral care of John Kilian (Sorbian languages: Jan Kilian, German: Johann Killian) who emigrated from Lusatia (part of modern-day Germany) to Texas in 1854.[1] The term also refers to the other emigrations (and all descendants) occurring before and after this group. However none came close to the size or importance of the Wendish culture in Texas.
^"Remember the Wends? Hardly Anyone Does". The Paris News. December 8, 1982. p. 35. Retrieved March 22, 2014 – via Newspapers.com.
United States (such as the TexasWends), and Australia. In German-speaking Europe during the Middle Ages, the term "Wends" was interpreted as synonymous...
Americans of Sorb/Wend descent. The largest community of Sorbs in the United States is in Texas, with a population of around 588 Sorbs/Wends. Arthur Fehr...
Lutheran pastor and leader of the colony known as the WendsofTexas. John Kilian was born in Doehlen, in the Kingdom of Saxony. After school in Rachlau...
Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984)...
John Kilian (1811–1884), a Lutheran pastor and leader of the colony known as the WendsofTexas Michael Kilian (1939–2005), author and journalist primarily...
which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the WendsofTexas. At least another eight vessels have carried the name since then. A...
Harry Stanton. His breakthrough part came with the lead role in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. Playwright Sam Shepard, who wrote the film's script, had spotted...
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Serbs and Wends) are an indigenous West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and...
Wim Wenders from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film follows the routine life of Hirayama...
colony Kulturkampf Persecution of Christians WendsofTexas Christopher Clark. Iron Kingdom: Of the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. (2006) pp...
Collider. Retrieved July 12, 2016. Jones, Stan (2005). "Wenders' Paris, Texas and the 'European Way of Seeing'". European Identity in Cinema. Bristol and Portland...
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (1974) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), and Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) found international...
called Wends) also brought their own languages, sometimes establishing separate towns where their native tongues became the dominant language. Texas German...
(Cannes Film Festival): Paris, Texas, directed by Wim Wenders, France / West Germany Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): A Year of the Quiet Sun (Rok spokojnego...
save perhaps the Wends, went for religious freedom. The German settlements in Texas reflected their diversity. Even in the confined area of the Hill Country...
Historically, the languages have also been known as Wendish (named after the Wends, the earliest Slavic people in modern Poland and Germany) or Lusatian. Their...
film sales and they also invested in foreign films including Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas (1984) and Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1988). In 1985 FilmFour International...
hazy memories. The film's theme has been said to foreshadow Wenders' later film Paris, Texas (1984). West German writer Philip Winter has missed his publisher's...
Japanese Texans are Japanese Americans living in Texas. In 1902, the Houston Chamber of Commerce requested help from Japanese Consul General Sadatsuchi...
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