Â That play was written while this author was facing legal troubles over the performance of his most famous work.
Mr. and Mrs. Fielitz have an argument in Mr. Fielitz's shoemaking workshop at the beginning of one of his works. Mrs. Wolff is a washerwoman who manages to avoid being caught for her theft of the title object partly through his determination to ferret out socialist tendencies in the victim of the theft. Â That play was written while this author was facing legal troubles over the performance of his most famous work. Pfeifer used to count himself among the titular(*) group of that work by this author of The Conflagration, but now oversees them as the right-hand man to the factory owner Dreisseger. The play sees Moritz Jaeger, who was recently discharged from the army, lead a riot along with Becker. For 10 points, name this German playwright of The Beaver Coat and The Weavers. 
Mr. and Mrs. Fielitz have an argument in Mr. Fielitz's shoemaking workshop at the beginning of one of his works.
Gerhart Hauptmann