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 […]
Rosa Bouglione, who still lives in Paris, was born Rosalie van Been in 1910 in Ixelles, Belgium. Her parents owned a small circus and menagerie, which toured in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. In the […]
Raymond Gurême was born in 1925 in a Manouches family, the name used for Sinti living in France. He spent his entire childhood in his father’s small circus, travelling mostly in the Western and Central […]
Josef Freiwald was born in the Canton of Wallis, his mother was a Sintezza, his father a Yenish. The authorities registered him as Swiss citizen. Later on, Freiwald worked as an acrobat and musician at […]
Sioma Zubicky was born in the German Circus Busch, as the son of Russian-Jewish parents. While father Boris performed as an acrobat and circus rider, his son showed an extraordinary talent for playing musical instruments. […]
Lia Schwartz, a German-born and a person of short stature, performed as the midget Lya Graf in the famous US circus, Ringling and Barnum & Bailey. Graf became famous in June 1933 when, during a […]
Research team: Project coordinator Dr. Malte Gasche is a researcher and project manager at the Centre for Nordic Societies at the University of Helsinki. He has managed several international summer schools on various topics (‘Introduction […]
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