A group of Swedish high school students stand by the old ramp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The students are attentively listening to excerpts from the memoirs of Zioma Zubicky, a former circus artist and […]
This 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) […]
During 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 […]
First project meeting of Diverging Fates, including a visit to International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, 24 Jan 2017
Literature Overview The research on the circus history in Nazi Germany has ,thus far, focused primarily on the enforced alignment (Gleichschaltung) and its negative consequences for the cultural life in Germany (among others Kuznezow 1970; […]
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