THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2426, sig. 109-12/71

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5w Five-and-a-half years of urban theatre lede Grenzlandbühne has to fulfill its special cultural-political mission. As a hort of German culture, it is for the compatriots the focal point of all intellectual and artistic movements, and the more intensely it fulfils its task, the more fruitful it has on the public sphere. Thus, in the life of a border town for the preservation and dissemination of art-owned culture, it is a tremendously important organ and its history also always shows a faithful image of the people's and urban destiny, such a close connection between the development of the theatre and the eutrophication of the city is also evident here in Moravia.-Ostrava, Considering that Ostrava had only 688 inhabitants in 1870 and grew in the course of almost 7 cents to a big city of over 200.00o inhabitants, one gets an approximate forerunner from the rapid flowering of the cine community from the unhindered spot to the most important industrial center in Moravian-Silesian space. The theatre tradition of such a young city is, of course, different from that of the imperial cities, whose economic importance was established centuries ago. The city is still at the stage of becoming. Larger, more powerful tasks are still in the bosom of the future and will be mastered according to the archive: Museum Siege under the energetic promotion of the Great German Empire. Architect Alexander Graf If we can celebrate the jubilee of the 33th anniversary of the Stadttheater today - even before a city-historical developmental departure - after which we can already celebrate this anniversary, this is the Staditheater was built ). Proof of the greed and the artistic sense of the Ostrava people. Were it at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century. In 1895, thanks to the willingness of the German population to sacrifice, the first permanent Rülue was built in the festival hall of the "Deutsche Haus" (German House). Here partly by guest performances of neighbouring stages, partly by theatre and couzer entrepreneurs organized performances had good artistic successes. But over the time different, due to the premises, different evils became noticeable, which the audience's desire for a cigenen Theater Der Antonyplatz before the construction of the Stadttheafer Archive: Museum