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The Silesian weavers by Karl Hübner. Silesian weavers' uprising of 1844 (German: Schlesischer Weberaufstand) was a revolt against contractors who supplied the weavers of Silesia with raw material and gave them orders for finished textiles but drastically reduced their payments. Silesia's industry was in bad condition in the decades after 1815.
As social conditions worsened, growing unrest culminated in the Silesian cotton weavers' uprising (German: Schlesischer Weberaufstand) of 1844. This uprising, on the eve of the revolution of 1848 , was closely observed by German society and treated by several artists, among them Gerhart Hauptmann (with his 1892 play The Weavers ) and Heinrich ...
"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.
In 1844, he created his best known work: The Silesian Weavers , inspired by an uprising staged by the weavers of Silesia earlier that same year; an event which would also inspire Heinrich Heine to write his poem of the same name ("The Silesian Weavers"). It was shown throughout Germany.
The Second Silesian Uprising (Polish: Drugie powstanie śląskie) was the second of the three uprisings. In February 1920, an Allied Plebiscite Commission was sent to Upper Silesia. It was composed of representatives of the Allied forces, mostly from France, with smaller contingents from United Kingdom and Italy. [ 2 ]
The Weavers (German: Die Weber, Silesian German: De Waber) is a play in five acts written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann in 1892. The play, probably Hauptmann's most important drama, sympathetically portrays a group of Silesian weavers who staged an uprising in 1844 due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution.
Uprising, Netflix’s new Korean action-war epic, spans decades as it follows the fraught friendship between Cheon-yeong (Broker’s Gang Dong-won), a nobi slave with a knack for swordsmanship ...
June 4 – Start of the Silesian weavers' uprising. It is crushed by Prussian military on June 6, with 11 weavers killed and numerous arrested. June 6 – George Williams sets up (in London) what is often cited as the first youth organisation in the world [6] – "The Young Men's Christian Association", commonly known as YMCA. It will grow to a ...