The first Romanian-language theatre performance in Braşov

The Brașov County Library invites you on Thursday 19 November 2026 at 16:00 to the lecture „Primul spectacol de teatru în limba română prezentat la Brașov” (The first Romanian-language theatre performance presented in Brașov), given by Wolfgang Wittstock, cultural journalist. The event takes place in the Mediatheque, at the library's main building, on the 1st floor, with free admission. The guest will speak about the collection of old theatre tickets, about the note by the Saxon scholar Joseph Franz Trausch and about the German-Romanian intercultural dialogue of the early 19th century, that is, about Brașov's multicultural past.

Wittstock has studied the history of German theatre in Transylvania and corrected errors in the bibliography. He discovered that in the early 19th century a German troupe wanted to perform a play in Romanian for the Romanians of Brașov, as a test before its tour of Wallachia.

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