ABSTRACT

A carnival float in the 1914 Cologne Rose Monday parade was designed under the slogan ‘Theatre Then and Now’. The float depicted a cinema under the headline ‘The Theatre of Today’, pointing out that the film industry was encroaching on actors, authors and topics of the classical legitimate theatre. While the cinema sector was booming in the city, the Cologne Schauspielhaus (Cologne Theatre) was suffering a severe decline in audience attendance. The painted draft of the carnival float illustrates in detail the discrepancy between cinema and legitimate theatre and what they offered its audiences: long feature films for high entrance fees versus free car rides and free buffet to lure audiences into classical Greek tragedies. The Cologne carnival float commented in a caricaturing way on how the cinema attained sold-out houses with its propositions, while the legitimate theatre remained empty.

摘要

1914 年科隆玫瑰星期一游行中的嘉年华花车是在“Theatre Then and Now”的口号下设计的。花车以“今日剧院”为标题描绘了一家电影院，指出电影业正在蚕食演员、作家和古典合法剧院的主题。在该市电影业蓬勃发展的同时，科隆剧院（科隆剧院）的观众人数严重下降。嘉年华花车的彩绘草稿详细说明了电影院和合法剧院之间的差异以及它们为观众提供的东西：高昂的入场费的长片与免费乘车和免费自助餐以吸引观众进入古典希腊悲剧。科隆嘉年华花车以讽刺的方式评论了电影院如何凭借其主张获得售罄的房屋，