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- Title
TIMIȘOARA ÎN PERIOADA BELLE ÉPOQUE: BALURI ȘI DIVERTISMENT ÎN SFERA PUBLICĂ.
- Authors
Stanciu-Păscăriţa, Daniela
- Abstract
The present study dwells with the daily life in Timișoara by the beginning of the 20th century. It is a radiography of balls and dance parties aiming to analyze the daily life of "the unnamed", fallowing the entertainment progress in Timișoara during the Belle Époque, on the basis of press data and memoirs. The functions of balls before and after the Great War are presented in different stages: organizing, press advertizing, clothes, dances, and the ball calenderer. Timișoara offered a cosmopolite space of entertainment and the different ethnic groups used to take part into such events. More than this, the code of manners played an important part as long as the social actors tried to follow the urban model through their clothes and etiquette. The basic question of the study is: How World War I changed the entertainment progress in Timișoara? Temesvárer Zeitung, the German newspaper was the main source with balls advertorials and chronicles it regularly published and allows so the researchers of today to inquiring into the social life in Timișoara in the beginning of the 20th century.
- Subjects
TIMISOARA (Romania); WORLD War I; BALLS (Parties); TWENTIETH century; EVERYDAY life
- Publication
Banatica, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 2, p335
- ISSN
1222-0612
- Publication type
Article