“In the end, we will all become philosophers.”

Memories of the years spent at the Kautz Gyula College

Abstract

I often think of my mother's definition of a city: “A city is a settlement that has a permanent theater company and a stone theater.” As a university student and then as a researcher, I encountered many different definitions, and I increasingly understand and feel the truth of this personal
approach. In order to maintain a theater, you need a population that has both the financial means and the desire to have culture within reach in the city and to provide a living space where artists can and want to live. We can call it whatever we want, but if we can't find 80-100 people every evening who want to have a theater experience, I don't think it will ever be a city in the cultural
sense.