People's Theater
Theater of the People is the translation of the term théâtre du peuple , which Romain Rolland coined in a programmatic work in the Revue dramatique around 1900: He distanced himself from the popular nature of popular theater and strived for a (sophisticated) theater for the people owned by the people to: "The stages, the pieces should belong entirely to the people [...]", as Stefan Zweig put it.
As a theater name, the term was common in National Socialism , which made this program its own, and denoted:
- Theater des Volkes (Berlin) (1934–1945), formerly Max Reinhardt's Großes Schauspielhaus, then until the Friedrichstadtpalast was closed
- Theater des Volkes (Dresden) (1936–1945), formerly and now the Albert Theater
- Theater des Volkes (Munich) (1933–1945), formerly and now the Prinzregententheater
literature
- Romain Rolland: The People's Theater: Aesthetic Treatise on the Redesign of the Theater . Rotapfel, Zurich 1926.
- Joseph Gregor: The People's Theater in the Ostmark . Youth and People, Vienna 1943.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Zweig: Romain Rolland . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921, p. 73.