Venue (theater)
With venue are halls , rooms or buildings, made up, for theater performances are suitable and can be used for it. It can also be an open-air theater . If the events are not theatrical performances in the narrower sense, one speaks more of a location .
Venue and house
The term is mainly used when a theater company (as an organization) cannot be identified with a building, i.e. when the theater company operates changing venues or several parallel venues, or rents additional venues or rents out its own venues. The term "theater" is used because the term "house", which is common in German usage, often leads to confusion because it does not mean a building. - Some stages also have a second smaller venue in the building of their main venue. Since the end of the 20th century, buildings that previously had a different function or still fulfill it have also been used as theater venues, for example factory buildings, cinemas, train stations, discos.
Examples
The Paris Opera (as a company) now has two venues (as a building): the Opéra Bastille and the Opéra Garnier . In the course of its history it has had a large number of venues, including the Palais Royal and the Théâtre Louvois . The Frankfurt Opera was at the end of the 19th century their venue in today's Alte Oper , and since the 1950s in the Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt) . The Vienna Burgtheater has the Akademietheater (Vienna) as the second larger permanent venue. The Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Schauspielhauskeller have two venues in the main building and three more in the shipbuilding . The theaters on New York's Broadway are merely venues without a production infrastructure, so they have to be used by theater companies.
literature
- Rainer Harjes: Handbook for the practice of independent theater. Living space through lifelong dream (= DuMont pocket books 136). DuMont, Ostfildern 1983, ISBN 3-770-11469-8 .
- Nina Caroline Glimski: The organizer ancillary copyright . An analysis of the property right anchored in the German Copyright Act including comparative considerations of the Austrian and Swiss legal situation (= intellectual property and competition law 43). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-161-50503-4 , pp. 57-59 (also: Hannover, Univ., Diss., 2010).
