Amadeos Theater

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Amadeos Theater (Croatian: Amadéovo kazalište ) was founded in Zagreb , Croatia in 1797 and existed until 1834. It was named after its founder Anton Amade de Varkony , a Hungarian count and great prefect of Zagreb. Amadeos Theater was located on the former Blatna and Kazalisna streets, later renamed Demetrova. The building in which it was located is now the Croatian Museum of Natural History and, since 2000, the home of the Amadeo - Theater and Music Society . Amadeos Theater was a public theater that was rented by its owner to a contractor - the leader of the theater company with the highest supply. Posters, cards, announcements and advertisements were printed for theater performances and other events. That is why Amadeos Theater is considered the first public theater in Zagreb.

Language of the performances

At first, pieces were mainly performed in German , and to a lesser extent in Latin . In 1832 and 1833, German actors performed the first public and professional performance in the Kajkavian dialect of Croatian in the Amadeos Theater . Dragutin Rakovac (1813–1854) translated two comedies by August von Kotzebue into Kajkavian. Josef Schweigert, director and actor of a German group that appeared at the Theater an der Zeit, performed the following plays:

  • October 2, 1832: Ztari mladosenja i kosharice (from Kotzebue)
  • January 28, 1833: Vkanjeni Vkanitel (from Florijan)
  • July 23, 1833: Ztari zaszebni kuchish Petra III (von Kotzebue)

repertoire

The Amadeos Theater offered the usual German repertoire in the Austrian provinces at the time : dramas , operas , ballets and a special kind of simple pieces with singing sections that later developed into an operetta called Singspiel . At the beginning of the 19th century, the appearance of writers from the Vienna Circle became more frequent, who marked the beginning of the Viennese folk theater with their works , without which it would be impossible to imagine the origins of the Croatian folk theater .

Amadeos Theater has primarily played an educational role in Croatian theater history.

literature

  • Nikola Batušić, Povijest hrvatskog kazališta (History of Croatian Theater), 1978
  • Amadéovo kazalište , in Hrvatska Enciklopedija , Volume 1, 1999, p. 181

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