Boulevard theatre (aesthetic)

The Boulevard Theatre is a created in Paris in the late 18th century private sector theatrical form and can equally refer to a type of venues such as a theater genre. In German, the term boulevard theater is now used for farces in the area of the small theater. However, its scope originally all private forms of theater with genres like the crime and adventure pieces, which are now mostly gone to the cinema.

History

The expression Boulevard theater called the 18th/19th. Century rather venues or institutions as a specific theater genre. He is related to the urbanization and the emancipation of the bourgeois forms of entertainment: In contrast to the wooden booths at the fairs the boulevard theater had solid, stone-built, prestigious, but mostly privately run homes. In the narrow sense were the "Boulevard theaters " originally the four directly juxtaposed buildings Cirque Olympique, Théâtre des Folies- Dramatiques, Théâtre de la Gaîté and the Théâtre des Funambules on Paris's Boulevard du Temple meant.

The Boulevard du Temple was until the second half of the 19th century, the entertainment district of the largest continental European city of Paris. There, large private economic spaces such as the Théâtre de l' Ambigu -Comique (1769 ), which were often dedicated to the melodrama and pantomime in mixed forms with concert or circus performances, emerged. They replaced the venues of the Parisian fair theater. The Napoleonic theater decree of 1807 designated the Boulevard Theatre of secondary importance, and required them to specialize in certain genres. - Other European cities such as Vienna ( with the Vienna suburban theaters ) and Berlin ( with the royal theater ) concurred on this development.

Today's meaning

The "typical" genre of boulevard theater is now called Boulevard piece. The "serious" side of the boulevard theater, so the adventure and detective stories, is now often no longer present because it has been almost completely taken over from film and television. The expression Boulevard piece in today's parlance usually understood as a rough comedy, as a burlesque or farce.

In recent times the term boulevard theater is often associated with a later stage of theater history, no longer with the wide boulevard theaters and their elaborate, circus -like productions, but with the smaller music halls or music halls, which originated in the second half of the 19th century and the vaudeville and Farces, who came there since the Second Empire to the performance. In Paris they were the smaller entertainment theater that survived the redevelopment of the boulevards by Georges- Eugène Haussmann as the Folies Concert Antes ( 1851) or were built there again.

In French, has " boulevard theater " not the negative painting that it has in English, and may refer to actual time in theater a respectable frame.