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Mihai Eminescu National Theatre, Timișoara
The Mihai Eminescu National Theatre (; abbreviated TNTm) is a theatre company in Timișoara, Romania, subordinated to the Ministry of Culture. It shares the same building with the Romanian National Opera, the Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre and the German State Theatre. It was founded in 1945 after decades of concerted efforts to establish a Romanian-language theatre in the city. History The relatively late establishment of the Romanian theatre in Banat is the result of the precarious social and political conditions of the Romanians within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the absence of the right and the possibilities to establish artistic institutions, during this period a rich amateur activity of Romanian "dilettante" troupes flourished. The ''Society of Dilettantes from Timișoara'', made up of 13 members, started its activity in the old districts of the city ( Maiere and Fabric). Using the stages of some public places, especially cafes, the performances of Timișoara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timișoara
Timișoara (, , ; , also or ; ; ; see #Etymology, other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in Western Romania. Located on the Bega (Tisza), Bega River, Timișoara is considered the informal capital city of the historical Banat region. From 1848 to 1860 it was the capital of the Serbian Vojvodina and the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar. With 250,849 inhabitants at the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, Timișoara is the country's List of cities and towns in Romania, fifth most populous city. It is home to around 400,000 inhabitants in its Timișoara metropolitan area, metropolitan area, while the Timișoara–Arad metropolis concentrates more than 70% of the population of Timiș and Arad County, Arad counties. Timișoara is a multicultural city, home to 21 ethnic groups and 18 religious denominations. Historically, the most numerous were the Banat Swabians, Swabian Germans, Jews and Hungarians, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucian Blaga
Lucian Blaga (; 9 May 1895 – 6 May 1961) was a Romanians, Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist. He is considered one of the greatest philosophers and poets of Romania, and a prominent philosopher of the twentieth century who due to the unfortunate circumstances surrounding his career is barely known to the outside world. Biography Lucian Blaga was born on 9 May 1895 in Lancrăm (then Lámkerék), near Alba Iulia (then Gyulafehérvár). He was the ninth child of Isidor Blaga, an Orthodox priest, and Ana Moga. Both his parents' families had deep ties with the church: Isidor's father, Simion Blaga, was also a priest and Ana's family tree had a long line of priests and a bishop. His father studied at Bruckenthal Highschool in Sibiu and according to Lucian Blaga his way of being was inline with "German cultural tradition": opened to technological progress and free thinking, sometimes in contrast with his profession which he did "without the impetus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Transylvania
Northern Transylvania (, ) was the region of the Kingdom of Romania that during World War II, as a consequence of the August 1940 territorial agreement known as the Second Vienna Award, became part of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1946), Kingdom of Hungary. With an area of , the population was largely composed of both ethnic Romanians and Hungarians. In October 1944, Soviet Union, Soviet and Romanian Land Forces, Romanian forces gained control of the territory, and by March 1945 Northern Transylvania returned to Romanian administration. After the war, this was confirmed by the Paris Peace Treaties, 1947, Paris Peace Treaties of 1947. Background Transylvania has a varied history. Once part Kingdom of Kingdom of Dacia (82 BC–106 AD), in 106 AD, the Roman Empire conquered the territory, after the Roman legions withdrew in 271 AD, it was overrun by a succession of various tribes such as Carpi (people), Carpi, Visigoths, Huns, Gepids, Pannonian Avars, Avars, and Slavs, in the 9t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade (). Located in the Someșul Mic river valley, the city is considered the unofficial capital of the Historical regions of Romania, historical province of Transylvania. For some decades prior to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, it was the official capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania. , 286,598 inhabitants live in the city. The Cluj-Napoca metropolitan area had a population of 411,379 people, while the population of the peri-urbanisation, peri-urban area is approximately 420,000. According to a 2007 estimate, the city hosted an average population of over 20,000 students and other non-residents each year from 2004 to 2007. The city spreads out from St. Michael's Church, Cluj-Napoca, St. Michael's Church in Unirii Square, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art And Design University Of Cluj-Napoca
The Art and Design University (;) is an art university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded on November 15, 1925, as the ''Fine Arts School of Cluj''. It was formerly known as Academy of Visual Arts "Ioan Andreescu" until 30 June 2000. Faculties The university has two faculties: * Faculty of Graphic Arts * Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design Undergraduate school The undergraduate school includes the following departments: *Department of Painting * Department of Sculpture *Department of Graphic Arts - Drawing - Painting - Printmaking - Illustration - Graphic design *Department of Fine arts, Photography and Video processing *Department of Conservation and Restoration *Department of Art education and Decorative arts *Department of Ceramics - Glass *Department of Textile arts and Textile design *Department of Wardrobe stylist and Fashion design *Department of Design and Industrial design *Department of Art history and Theory of art Graduate school The graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Democratic Front (Romania)
The People's Democratic Front (, FDP, ) was an electoral alliance in Romania from 1944 to 1968, dominated by the Romanian Communist Party (PCR). It formed the government of Romania from 1946 to 1968, and from 1948 onward was effectively the only legal political organization in the country. History The alliance was created as the National Democratic Front (''Frontul Național Democrat, FND'') in October 1944, and was an alliance of the PCR, the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), the Ploughmen's Front (FP) and other Communist-affiliated organisations. In the fraudulent 1946 elections the front formed the core of the Bloc of Democratic Parties, which officially won 69.8 percent of the vote and 347 of the 414 seats in Parliament, "confirming" the government of pro-Communist Prime Minister Petru Groza in power. After the collapse of Communism, some authors argued that the opposition National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) would have won a comprehensive victory had the Groza government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera House
An opera house is a theater building used for performances of opera. Like many theaters, it usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, backstage facilities for costumes and building sets, as well as offices for the institution's administration. While some venues are constructed specifically for operas, other opera houses are part of larger performing arts centers. Indeed, the term ''opera house'' is often used as a term of prestige for any large performing arts center. History Greco-Roman antiquity Based on Aristoxenus's musical system, and paying homage to the architects of ancient Greek theater, Vitruvius described, in the 1st century BC, in his treatise ''De architectura'', the ideal acoustics of theaters. He explained the use of brazen vases that Mummius had brought to Rome after having had the theater of Corinth demolished, and as they were probably used in the Theater of Pompey. As wooden theaters were naturally sonorous, these vases, placed betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politehnica University Of Timișoara
Politehnica University of Timișoara (; abbreviated UPT) is a public university in Timișoara. Founded in 1920, it is one of the largest institute of technology, technical universities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 10 faculties of the university provide educational program, study programs for about 13,000 students. In 2011, Politehnica University of Timișoara was classified as an ''advanced research and education university'' by the Ministry of National Education (Romania), Ministry of Education. The university is a founding member of the Romanian Alliance of Technical Universities (ARUT). History 1920–1948: Polytechnic School The idea of establishing a polytechnic school in Timișoara appeared since the beginning of the 20th century, the Austro-Hungarian Empire wanting both the industrial development of Banat and offering a reason for satisfaction to the majority Romanian population. Following the proposal of the City Council meeting of 26 November 1906, in 1907 mayo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Căile Ferate Române
Căile Ferate Române (; abbreviated as the CFR) was the state railway carrier of Romania. The company was dissolved on 1 October 1998 by splitting into several successor companies. CFR as an entity existed from 1880, even though the first railway on current Romanian territory was opened in 1854. CFR was divided into four autonomous companies: * ''CFR Călători'', responsible for passenger services; * ''CFR Marfă'', responsible for freight transport; * ''Compania Națională de Căi Ferate CFR'', manages the infrastructure on the Romanian railway network; and * ''Societatea Feroviară de Turism'', or SFT, which manages Heritage railway, scenic and tourist railways. CFR was headquartered in Bucharest and had regional divisions centered in Bucharest, Brașov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanța, Craiova, Galați, Iași, and Timișoara. Its International Union of Railways code is 53-CFR. History Railways in the nineteenth century The first railway line on Romania's present-day territory w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ionel Teodoreanu
Ionel Teodoreanu (, born Ioan Hipolit Teodoreanu; 6 January 1897 – 3 February 1954) was a Romanian novelist and lawyer. He is mostly remembered for his books on the themes of childhood and adolescence. Biography Born in January 1897 in Iași into a family of intellectuals, Teodoreanu followed his father Osvald and older brother Păstorel in becoming a lawyer. From 1904 to 1906 he attended the German primary school of Pitar-Moș in Bucharest, until his parents moved back to Iași. Between 1908 and 1912 he attended the Boarding High School in Iași. He later transferred to the National College, which he attended until he graduated in 1916. Teodoreanu obtained his law degree from the University of Iași in 1919, and began to work as a lawyer, although he was more attracted to literature. In late 1918, Teodoreanu he was introduced to his future wife, Maria Ștefana Lupașcu, by Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea's daughters. The two young people became close due to their mutual pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iași National Theatre
The Iași National Theatre (or Vasile Alecsandri National Theater; in Romanian: Teatrul Național Vasile Alecsandri) in Iași, Romania, is the oldest national theatre and one of the most prestigious theatrical institutions in Romania. In 1956, it was given the name of the renowned Romanian playwright and poet Vasile Alecsandri. The building also hosts the Iași Romanian National Opera. History The first dramatic play presented in the Romanian language (and one of the first theatrical performance in Romanian) was ''Mirtil and Hloe'', adapted and staged by Gheorghe Asachi, and held in the capital (Jassy/Iași) of Moldavia, on 27 December 1816. In 1834, a Romanian production took place in Iași on the stage of the Théâtre de varieté, built in 1832 for the French Fouraux troupe. The National Theatre was founded on 15 May 1840, as the ''Great Theatre of Moldavia'', when the Romanian language troupe, led by Costache Caragiali, was united with the French troupe, under a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Theatre Bucharest
The National Theatre Bucharest () is one of the national theatres of Romania, located in the capital city of Bucharest. Founding It was founded as the ''Teatrul cel Mare din București'' ("Grand Theatre of Bucharest") in 1852, its first director being Costache Caragiale. It became a national institution in 1864 by a decree of List of Prime Ministers of Romania, Prime Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu, and was officially named as the National Theatre in 1875; it is now administered by the Ministry of Culture (Romania), Romanian Ministry of Culture. In April 1836, the ''Societatea Filarmonica'' — a cultural society founded by Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Ion Câmpineanu — bought the Câmpinencii Inn to build a National Theatre on the site, and began to collect money and materials for this purpose. In 1840, Sfatul boieresc, Obşteasca Adunare (the legislative branch established under the terms of the Imperial Russian-approved ''Regulamentul Organic, Organic Statute'') proposed to Alexa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
