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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Diverging Fates home page is now officially live, on the World Circus Day! The home page is a living document and will be updated continuously during the whole project.
04.05.2017 to 21.05.2017 Museum Europäischer Kulturen (MEK) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. “Circus. Freedom. Gleichschaltung” (policy of enforced coordination) is a special presentation by: “Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus […]
Researcher Martin Holler began his work at the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archives) in Berlin Lichterfelde, 27 March 2017. The historical collections of the German Reich are of central important for the project ‘Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus […]
First project meeting of Diverging Fates, including a visit to International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, 24 Jan 2017
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