Die Weber von Gerhart Hauptmann: Lektüreschlüssel mit Inhaltsangabe, Interpretation

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A spark is enough: When a starving boy collapses, protests erupt from the exploited weavers in front of the manufacturer Dreissiger's villa. The situation escalates. Hauptmann's drama about the Silesian Weaver Uprising of 1844 was a political issue – the first public performance in Berlin in 1894 was preceded by a lengthy censorship process, Kaiser Wilhelm II. announced his withdrawal from the German Theater, and Social Democrats cheered. However, it also ventured into aesthetic new territory: no longer is an individual the hero of the drama, but a group of uniform figures of misery – the weavers.