Théâtre des Funambules
The Théâtre des Funambules (French / Latin "Theater of the tightrope walkers") was a historic theater on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris , which existed from 1816 to 1862.
Location and schedule
The theater, built of wood, was one of the smallest in the series of boulevard theaters on Paris' Boulevard du Temple , with 500 seats . It stood on the east side and was directly connected to the Théâtre de la Gaîté . In the year it opened in 1816, the acrobat Philippe Deburau and his family were engaged in the theater. The theater had a crier in front of the house, but no language was allowed on the stage. So it had to be limited to the performance of tricks and pantomimes . The famous melodrama actor Frédérick Lemaître also performed in this theater in his early years.
Legends have been created since the 1830s
The critic Jules Janin discovered the theater in the 1830s, when, after the Battle of Hernani , the French Romanticism had triumphed and a reorientation of the Paris theater world took place in the rough and Folk was estimated as particularly poetic. Philippe Deburau's son Jean-Gaspard Deburau , who was not particularly talented as an acrobat, became a world-famous performer in pantomime with Janin's support as a melancholy, ethereal Pierrot .
demolition
Like the other theaters on the north side of the street, the building was demolished in 1862 when the boulevard and Place de la République were redesigned . For the film Children of Olympus (1943–45) by Marcel Carné , the Théâtre des Funambules - as well as the entire street - was reconstructed.
literature
- Louis Péricaud: Le Théatre des Funambules. Ses Mimes, ses Acteurs, et ses Pantomimes depuis sa Fondation, jusqu'a sa Démolition. L. Sapin, Paris 1897, ( digitized version ).
- Jörg von Brincken: Tours de force. The aesthetics of the grotesque in French pantomime of the 19th century (= Theatron. Studies on the history and theory of the dramatic arts. 51). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-66051-1 (also: Munich, University, dissertation, 2004).
