Theater director
Theater director (out of date also principal ) is called the independent director of a stage, who is often at the same time its leaseholder or owner. The theater director differs from chief officials and employees of theaters with public sponsorship such as the artistic director , the artistic director , the theater director, game director, etc.
A theater director is often an independent entrepreneur or is (as is usually the case today) directly responsible to his grantor and sponsors. He may be the leader of an outdoor stage, a private theater with regular play mode, a guest performance theater without its own ensemble, one for ensemble grown amateur theater , a cinema or cinema operation or a doll or puppet theater to be. The theater is often named after the theater director, as in the 19th century the Fürst Theater in Vienna or the Wallner Theater in Berlin.
In practice, there is often no distinction made between theater directors and employed directors in order to emphasize the artistic independence of the latter. The leading employees and chief officials at today's city and state theaters come from the court officials of the court theaters , who often came from the nobility and did not see themselves as "ordinary" officials.
The principals of the traveling theaters were at the same time a kind of head of the family for their troupe, had the license for theater performances and were tenants of the performance venues. On the court stages, too, they mostly played on their own account.
