Born around 1891 in Morocco, Houssein ben Ibrik died nearly a century later in France. What is known about him sounds straight from a romance novel: a fighter of desert pirates, lion tamer, and acrobat […]
Hugo Strassburger came from the most important Jewish circus family in Germany. He worked as stable master, animal trainer, and buffoon horseman “Hugoletty” in the circus of his older brothers Adolf and Leopold, which was […]
The project “Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus People in Europe under National Socialism”(www.divergingfates.eu) in cooperation with its follow-up project “Forgotten Cosmopolitans: Europe’s Circus People in the Wake of WWII” will arrange a cooperative research workshop with […]
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