Theater freedom
Theater freedom is a term that played a major role in the late 18th and 19th centuries, when the theater was the primary, and often only, place where public gatherings were allowed. So it has to do with freedom of assembly and freedom of trade in entertainment and education. - In the broadest sense, theater freedom is also understood as the freedom of public expression in the theater, which is discussed on the occasion of theater scandals.
The establishment of new theaters was subject to strict conditions for fear of political agitation and to protect the privileges of court and city theaters. A censorship kept a close eye on what was going on on stage. The demand for freedom of theater is related to bourgeois emancipation and urbanization in the 19th century, which brought with it an increased need for entertainment.
In a narrower sense, the expression refers to the Parisian theater freedom ( liberté des théâtres ) of 1791 in the wake of the French Revolution , when the establishment of new theaters was no longer subject to restrictions and 35 new theaters were opened in a short time. This freedom was again restricted by the Napoleonic theater decree of 1807. It was reintroduced by an imperial decree of January 6, 1864, which led to a large number of new foundations.
literature
- Rupert Moser , Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Freedom - Desire or Reality? Lang, Bern 1995, ISBN 3-906753-43-3 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Albert Delpit, La liberté des théâtres , in: Revue des Deux Mondes , 25: 1878, p. 602.