Title: Die Weber
Subtitle: Schauspiel aus den vierziger Jahren
First published: 1899
Description: 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.

The play was translated into Yiddish by Pinchas Goldhar in the 1920s, after which it became a favorite of the Yiddish stage. In 1927 it was adapted into a German silent film The Weavers directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Paul Wegener. A Broadway version of The Weavers was staged in 1915–1916.[1]
Subjects: German drama, German language books, Criticism and interpretation, Deutschunterricht, Weber (Hauptmann, Gerhart), Weber, Translations into English, Plays, Play, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), German drama, translations into english
LC classification: PT'2616'Z38'M6'1915