Afișe teatrale timișorene din colecția Muzeului Național al Banatului (sfârșitul sec. al XVIII-lea – începutul sec. al XX-lea) / Theatrical posters from Timișoara in the collection of the National Museum of Banat (the end of the 18th century – the beginning of the 20th century)
Jan. 1, 2022
Keywords:
poster
theatre
18th-20th centuries
Timişoara
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Abstract
The theater posters provide valuable information about the theater and the actors who worked in it, but also about the norms of behavior, characteristic of the society at that time. Unfortunately, the collections of the National Museum of Banat do not contain compact collections of posters from the pre-war period, concerning theatrical performances in Timișoara. The relatively few and heterogeneous posters preserved, in terms of chronology and language (German, Romanian, and Hungarian) in which they were written, provide interesting information about the theatrical activity in Timișoara. The oldest pre-war theater poster preserved in the museum's collections, dates from 1788 and the newest from 1911. In addition to the information about the poster and the play it presented, I have also tried to capture aspects of the history of Timisoara’s theater during the period in which these posters were produced.
