Silesian dialect literature

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De Waber (dialect edition)

Silesian dialect literature in the broader regional sense includes all literature written in a Silesian dialect. This includes works by authors from Silesia , Lower Silesia , Upper Silesia , Grafschaft Glatz , Upper Lusatia and Sudetenland through to the Silesian language islands in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Dialect authors

Below is a list of the most famous Silesian-speaking dialect authors, sorted by era and dialect region:

Baroque

Karl von Holtei, 1798–1880

Paul Keller, 1873–1932

Gerhart Hauptmann, 1862–1946

• playwright
  • Andreas Gryphius (1616–1664), Glogau
• Dialect poet
  • Daniel Stoppe (1697-1747), Hirschberg

enlightenment

• Dialect researcher

romance

• Dialect poet
  • Robert Rößler (1838–1883), Großburg

• playwright
  • Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), Breslau

Late 19th century

• playwright
  • Moritz Jursitzky (1861–1936), Engelsberg

• poet
  • Max Heinzel (1833–1898), Ossig (Neumarkt district)
  • Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), Ober Salzbrunn

• writer
  • Johannes Reinelt (1858–1906), Kreuzendorf, pseudonym: Thilo vom Walde
  • Paul Keller (1873–1932), Arnsdorf

Early 20th century

• Folklorist
  • Will-Erich Peuckert (1895–1969), Töppendorf

post war period

• Dialect poet
  • Ernst Schenke (1896–1982), Nimptsch

• Folklorist
  • Wilhelm Menzel (1898–1980), Obersteinkirch

• Dialect researcher
  • Barbara Suchner (1922-2010), Breslau