Gnugo (Giacomo in seinem amtlichen Ausweis, weil Gnugo ein Sinti-Name war) war der Enkel von Giovanni (Jean) De Barre, einem französischen Sinto; und Ida Truzzi, eine Zirkusartistin aus einer altitalienischen Zirkusfamilie. Der Name seines Vaters […]
Alfons, Alex, and Arthur Blumenfeld (Zirkusarchiv Winkler, Berlin) The Blumenfeld Brothers Alex [real name Emanuel] (1885-1942), Alfons (1887-1942), and Arthur (1889-1951), as well as their eight further siblings came from a widespread German-Jewish travelling […]
Edit Sandor Kleinbarth was born in Budapest in 1931. Her parents were Sandor and Elise Kleinbarth. Her father came from a “private” Hungarian family. He had learned the art of school riding in the Czech […]
Irene Bento, née Danner, was born in 1923. A versatile and talented circus artist, she hailed from the Lorch family, a Jewish circus family whose roots date back to the 18th century. They occasionally ran […]
The author dedicates the present life portrait to the memory of his Russian colleague Nikolai Bessonov, who suddenly and untimely passed away in November 2017 Ivanova in Uniform (Private Archive Nikolai Bessonov) Margarita Ivanova […]
With this play we want to illuminate the synergies between research and stage storytelling. The play portrays the Finnish circus community, a realm open to foreign workers, national minorities and other marginal groups in a […]
Molnar, who grew up in Vienna’s working-class area, left the Evangelical Church at the age of eighteen to join the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) in 1923. From 1927 to 1929, he was the […]
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