Written on the Walls: The Hungarian-Romanian Transfer of the National Theatre Building from Kolozsvár/Cluj

Authors

  • Delia ENYEDI Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. delia.enyedi@ubbcluj.ro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2018.1.05

Keywords:

theatre, national identity, Transylvania, Jenő Janovics, Ștefan Mărcuș, Cluj, Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca.

Abstract

The 1918 Great Union of Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania had direct consequences on the theatrical landscape of the province. The present paper reconstructs the controversial transfer of the building that at the time hosted the Hungarian National Theatre from Kolozsvár/Cluj (currently Cluj-Napoca ) to the newly formed Romanian state, as recounted by its manager, Hungarian theatre and film director Jenő Janovics, and by Ștefan Mărcuș, Romanian opera singer and arts historian.

Author Biography

Delia ENYEDI, Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. delia.enyedi@ubbcluj.ro

DELIA ENYEDI is Lecturer in the Cinematography and Media Department of the Faculty of Theatre and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania. Her main research interests include silent cinema, narrative theory, film technology and aesthetics. She co-edited the proceedings volume Regards sur le mauvais spectateur/ Looking at the Bad Spectator (Cluj University Press, 2012) and is currently revising for publication her doctoral dissertation on Hungarian silent film and theatre artist Jenő Janovics.

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STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 63 (LXIII), No. 1, March 2018

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2018-03-30

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ENYEDI, D. (2018). Written on the Walls: The Hungarian-Romanian Transfer of the National Theatre Building from Kolozsvár/Cluj. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 63(1), 107–120. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2018.1.05

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Volume 63, No. 1, March 2018

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