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Project Description
February 22, 2017 0This two-year project (1.1.2017 – 31.12.2018) made up of an international team of five researchers (project leader Dr. Malte Gasche, Co-project leader Dr. Ethel Brooks, Dr. Ilsen About, MA Martin Holler, MA Raluca Bianca Roman) [...]
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The Brothers Arthur (1882-1942) and Rudolf Lorch (1893-1944) – Letters from Internment Camps in Southern France
January 20, 2019 0The brothers Arthur and Rudolf Lorch came from a traditional German-Jewish circus family, which resided in the Southern Hessian town Eschollbrücken. Together with their eldest brother Julius, they formed the core of the world-famous Risley [...]
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Historical Context
February 22, 2017 0During the Second World War, the German Reichskulturkammer considered circus performances to be important instruments of entertainment, both for German soldiers on the front and for the general civilian population, which was increasingly affected [...]
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Working with the website in the classroom
January 29, 2019 0Our project ‘Diverging Fates: Travelling Circus People in Europe under National Socialism’ wants not only to foster new scholarship and commemorational approaches, and a new identification of the circus as a cosmopolitan environment in Europe [...] -
At the Intersection of Circus, History and Education
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Personal Stories in Teaching National Socialist Persecution
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