The gods (theatrical)

The gallery is the highest (usually second to fourth ) rank of a theater, which is the highest loft, on which seats and standing places are. There were 18-19. Century, the cheapest seats, so that young people, soldiers, servants and intellectuals mixed. There was in most theater buildings a separate staircase to the gallery, so that the gallery audience could not take on the rest of the audience. On the gallery usually foods were sold.

Feared were the reactions of the gallery audience, who did not hesitate to comment on the performances or to hiss loudly when unpopular performers. The popular, somewhat coarser work of the board was called gallery piece. The gallery was ironically also called Mount Olympus, because the lowest social class was the highest placed. The gallery audience was considered politically sensitive. Filmed during World War II French film Children of Paradise is dedicated to the public gallery.

Friedrich Kaiser writes about the Theater an der Wien in the mid- 19th century: " The second and third galleries were occupied by Mind heritage nots, was what but the pleasure to attend a week at least once, the theater made ​​possible by the cheap admission prices. At the top of Mount Olympus saw people, which of course anthaten little forced, and made ​​himself comfortable in sweltering heat in his shirt sleeves; between the acts were heard in the heights of the calls: , Fresh Beer - smoked meat sausages ' "