A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historica 6. (Szeged, 2003)

FÁRI Irén – NAGY Ádám: Dokumentumok a Szegedi Szabadtéri Játékok első korszakából (1931-1939)

1995 A magyar Göttinga. Klebeisberg és a Szegedi egyetem. In. Gróf Klebelsberg Kunó emlékezete. Szerk. Zombori I. Szeged, 102-136. SÁNDOR János 1995 Thália örök jegyese. Koszorúzás Lugosi Döme sírjánál. Szeged, 1995/7. Seregélyi György szerk. 1988 Magyar festők és grafikusok adattára. Szeged. Sz. SIMON István 1983 A Játékok krónikája. Szeged. Dr. SZABÓ Ákos András 2002 Magyar festők és grafikusok életrajzi lexikona. Nyíregyháza SZABÓ Ákos - KÁLLAI Tibor 1997 Magyar festők és grafikusok életrajzi lexikona. Budapest. SZÉKELY György főszerk. 1994 Magyar színháztörténeti lexikon. Budapest. TANDI Lajos 1995 Varga Mátyás. Egy életmű díszletei. Budapest. IRÉN FÁRI - ÁDÁM NAGY DOCUMENTS ON THE FIRST DECADE OF THE SZEGED OPEN AIR FESTIVAL (1931-1939) The Dome of Szeged with its two high towers has already become a symbol of the city. The Dome was consecrated in 1930. When the building of the church was accomplished and following examples from Western Europe the intimate space was formulated in front of it, the idea of organizing open air festivals during summers was brought up. With the spiritual leadership of the young director of the theatre, Ferenc Hont, together with the significant support of cultural minister Kunó Klebelsberg the first performance was seen on 13 June 1931 as an attempt. In the following year further preparations were made and between 1933 and 1939 the Szeged Open Air Festival was organized yearly. In most cases plays by Hungarian authors were performed on stage. Imre Madách's classical drama entitled The Tragedy of Man was on stage every year. Besides some popular operas by foreign composers, such as Mascagni, Puccini and Verdi, mainly pieces of Hungarian composers, like Ferenc Liszt, Pongrác Kacsóh, Zoltán Kodály, were played as musical performances. In the first three years the performances were organized by the society of the publishing companies in Szeged. Then from 1936 to 1938 the city of Szeged took on the task, while in 1939 a temporary society of theatre men organized the festival. In year 2001 the Szeged Open Air Festival celebrated its 70th anniversary. In our paper we intend to collect and introduce the propaganda material used in the first phase of organization. Not only the actors, singers and directors of the performances were outstanding artists, but also those drawing and planning the posters, leaflets and booklets of the festival. An enthusiastic collector of the documents concerning the festival, Döme Lugosi displayed his collection on an exhibition as well. Unfortunately, the collection was destroyed during the war. In publications and memorials of recent years only the already well known photos and stories have been presented. However, reality is much ampler than this! Therefore we made an attempt to collect all the documents found in public collections. We hope that by briefly introducing these valuable documents one by one, they could become known for a wider audience as well.