The research on the Jewish circus family Strassburger led project researcher Martin Holler to the State Archive of Hamburg (StAHH). The port city Hamburg – Germany’s “Gate to the World” – was a popular […]
Peter Bento winning over Irene’s heart with his clown charm, captured in the Staged Reading held at the 14th Street Y in NYC, April 2017. Stav Meishar is a writer and a stage artist, […]
Renee Marshall (born Scott) and Walter Marshall, were a couple whose marriage before the Second World War represented a rare union between a circus family and a fairground family in the UK. Renee Scott […]
The terrain of the former “Gypsy Family Camp”, Memorial of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photo: Frank Reuter. Lucie Adelsberger was a prominent paediatrician, internist, and allergist, who worked at the famous Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. Shortly after […]
Raluca Bianca Roman’s research part in the project ‘Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus people in Europe during National Socialism’ is supported by the Finnish Kone Foundation. Roman has conducted archival research in the UK during […]
Zoltán Hirsch was a Hungarian Jew and a person of short statue, who performed as clown and acrobat (stage-name Zoli Hirsch) in circus and vaudeville shows. In 1942, the world-renowned circus performer self-published an autobiography […]
Lulu and Albertino (n.d.). Image courtesy of: National Fairground and Circus Archives, University of Sheffield Lulu Adams (born Louise Cranston) was an English circus performer, and one of the first and few female clowns […]
Image courtesy of: Blackpool Council Historic Collections Nikolai Poliakov, known more widely as Coco the Clown, is perhaps Britain’s most famous August clown of the 20th century. He was born to a Jewish theatre family […]
Image courtesy of: Blackpool Council Historic Collections Charlie Cairoli was born in Affori, a district of Milan (Italy), on February 15th 1910, to a travelling circus family of French origins. Alongside his father […]
On May 3, 2017, the exhibition “Circus. Freiheit. Gleichschaltung” (Circus. Freedom. Forced Coordination) opened at Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin, which we organised in cooperation with the project group “Circus im Nationalsozialismus”. In a lecture […]
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