Hate theater
The Viennese Hetztheater unter den Weißgerbern (today 3rd district Landstrasse ) existed from 1755 to 1796 as a place for animal fighting plays . Similar systems existed in the Baroque period in Berlin ( Hetzgarten ), Nuremberg ( Fechthaus ) and Königsberg.
history
The first Viennese theater for animal baiting existed in the eastern suburb of Leopoldstadt from 1708 . From 1738 to 1743 there was another one on the Heumarkt, which was closed due to a lack of financial success. The French Carl Defraine built a large wooden amphitheater with three tiers in 1755, which could hold about 3,000 people and which flourished for several decades despite high admission prices. The Viennese dialect expression "Hetz", meaning "fun", still reminds us of the events.
On September 1, 1796, the Hetztheater burned down, killing two lions, a panther and several bears. As a result, Emperor Franz II. No longer issued a permit to conduct animal baiting. The street in which the theater stood still bears the name Hetzgasse to this day .
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Vienna 1992–1997. Vol. 3; P. 175
- City Chronicle Vienna . Vienna 1986, p. 166f
- Helmut Kretschmer: Theater fires in Vienna . Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1981, ( Wiener Geschichtsblätter supplement 7, 1981), (exhibition catalog: 154th small exhibition of the Vienna City and State Archives, City Hall, 6th staircase, 1st floor, December 1981 to February 1982), p 4-5.
Web links
- The kk privileged hate theater among the white tanners
- The hate theater. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 3, 2018 .
- Austria Forum - Hetztheater
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 34.7 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 14.2" E