English Translation

THEATER RRR Jahzgang 1y40 . November issue, based on 1909 price per issue 1.— RM. DEUTSCHESTIEATER IN PRAG VON GENERALİNTEXDANT OSKAR WALLECR "Should we Bohemian alone make a feast it was consecrated to seehaff and fastened, how and less German blood feel in our veins? the beautiful foundation of the art-wise count Nostitz, to avoid this accusation, the national- above all important moments of the stage spectacle of our mother tongue my main eye-- was given a special consecration. Already in the merk be." Name of the stand theatre we recognize the This Ausschnett from the ideologically diverse political and economic evolutions, tische introduction, with which the noble donor of the Na- of which also this house law remained. Aus tionaltheaters am Obstmarkt, Graf Nostiz, the stage which became the Nationaltheater, according to the Über- Deutschen Böhmens with the performance of Lessings took through the Bohemian stalls, a stand theatre. "Emilia Galotti" at this was later - 21 April 1783 passed over to Kgl. Bohemian, denotes a . Landestheater (1861), turning point in the until then in Kgl, then. The house is to be renamed. In addition to the large text to the Italian edition, the operatic arts, the German theatres in which the court used to stand, in 1939 after and to the posses, have been taken over by those who had the rightful hands of the suburbs. The "Stände- erbildete deutsche Theater" (Ständes- ehre deutsche theater) was once again a citizen - and it was on the sign. mals was the whole now and in the future the citizenry of Prague is the state theatre German — for the first time a popular stage in Prague was given to the German show theatre. Here, too, above which the proud motto of Wor is to be read: te Graf Nostitz' rich- "Patriae et musis" and giving: "I over which in imperviousness the consecration of the shared and suffering-name Mozart shines. In fact, only the community, starting from the highest pre-eminence of this nobleman, gave the house up to the last that temporary pre-craftman- OSKAR WALLECKung, which he subordinated to it. I love and rightly ascribed to REICHSKULTURSENATOR fear it." DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF THE GERMAN THEATER becomes and their breath The Prague Theatre- IN THE PROTECTORATE BELIEVE AND MAY everyone feels the history (which is fortunate enough not to work in this unfortunately yet the unwritten home. Prague and Mozart — an uncontaminated layer of the Stabentheater) has always been seen in Prague's history as a magazine of fame, in which artistic and political moments dominate. No particular position of the city of Prague in the German world was Mozart so revered and loved as in his, with its contrasts of political nature, always Prague. Here he was cared for by admirers and friends- only for a short time, surrounded under the surface; here he continued to enjoy the happiness of a loved one, he also received the artistic performance from the audience, yes, on the part of the whole German and later the Czech city. When he was able to give here "Figaro's wedding" an atmosphere of suspense that Prague offered, this opera was played almost without a theatre in any other culture before-interruption the whole winter and found with it. It is important to us to show how in an enthusiasm without example from the Pragues run the times of the spirit of the German theatre, which received. Figaro's songs echoed on the I