![]() The bride takes off her ornate head dress, and replaces it with a black shawl, to signify that she is now a married woman. The bride and groom are escorted to their home. The young girls seem to be taking dancing cues from a person out of the frame, adults watch the young girls, but the adults do not participate in the dancing. At the celebration young girls dance together, a band plays (accordion, stringed, and percussive instruments). After the ceremony in the church, a celebration ensues. VS, the wedding ceremony, many townspeople are present, the bride and groom and other members of the wedding party carry out a number of rituals, including pinning corsages on each other, exchanging rings, exchanging vows, etc. MS, two older women braid the hair of a young woman (the bride to be) and then outfit her in the traditional regional wedding costume. VS, young townswomen in tradtional costume, kneeding dough and preparing large trays of bread. CUof the announcement (in German), stamped by the town official. MCU in the village (of Schonwald), two peasant women read an announcement posted on the side of a building. VS, villagers carrying farm implements, heading off to fields. This short documentary depicts the town of Schonwald in Upper Silesia, and the various activities which occur in preparation for a wedding ceremony that takes place in the village. German educational film: marriage customs in Upper Silesia See RG-60.3650, Film ID 2591 and RG-60.3660, Film ID 2602 for other parts of this film. ![]() The expedition was completed by his brother, Kurt Wegener. In November 1930, Wegener and his Inuit companion, Rasmus Villumsen, died after trying to provide the central 'Eismitte' station with sufficient supplies for the winter. His main expedition in 1930/31 with fourteen German participants was to create an all-year meteorological and glaciological profile of Greenland's inland ice sheet with three stations. Wegener planned and led his last two expeditions to Greenland, which were subsequently named the 'Alfred Wegener German Expedition to Greenland.' He carried out a preliminary expedition in 1929 with Johannes Georgi, Fritz Loewe, and Ernst Sorge to explore the glacier for ascent. Later, Wegener said that this expedition was his most successful and happiest undertaking. Half-starved, they finally reached their destination on Jtheir horses did not survive the ordeal, and it was only by chance that they were rescued by an Inuit. After wintering in northeast Greenland, during which they performed glaciological and climatological measurements, they succeeded in traversing northern Greenland from east to west with two other team members. In 1912/13, Wegener and Danish glaciologist Johann Peter Koch returned to Greenland. He also gathered the basic experience of living and traveling in Greenland, writing in his diary, "I believe that the decision to participate in this expedition will be decisive for my whole life." He later used the results for his thesis. He applied the techniques for aerological research of the upper atmosphere and conducted the first ever meteorological studies to be performed in a polar climate, using kites and fixed balloons at heights of up to 3000 meters. He was the only German to participate in a Danish expedition led by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen - the so-called 'Denmark Expedition of 1906-08' - to explore and survey the as yet unknown regions of northeast Greenland. ![]() Note This story was filmed over a period of two years (1930/31).Īlfred Wegener took part in four expeditions to Greenland. In November 1930, he and his companion Rasmus Villumsen died while returning from camp in the middle of the Greenland ice to their base camp on the west coast, about 400 kilometers away. After expeditions to Greenland in 19, he returned in 19, as a professor at the University of Graz, aiming to measure the thickness of ice with the help of a new technique. Wegener also conducted research on thermodynamics and cloud physics. He was described by a contemporary as "quiet man with a charming smile." From 1909 to 1919 as a lecturer at the University of Marburg, he began to search for paleontological, climatological and geological evidence in support of his theory of continental drift, which he first presented to the scientific world in 1912. Alfred Wegener's first expedition from 1906 to 1908 was to set the course taken during the rest of his life, for Greenland became the place he carried out the bulk of his research work. After obtaining his doctorate in 1904, this geophysicist, meteorologist, and climatologist followed his brother Kurt to the Aerological Observatory in Lindenberg. 1930) studied in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Innsbruck. ![]()
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