Sarrasani’s Theatre of the World: Monumental Circus Entertainment in Dresden, from Kaiserreich to Third Reich

Otte, Marline

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“…Consequently, regardless of the intentions of its directors, the circus was inscribed into the intricacies of political and social transformations. The European circus did not manage to establish itself as an apolitical phenomenon (see Otte 1999).…”

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Staged Otherness

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This book is the result of long years of cooperation between many people, as well as the culmination of a series of enterprises (conferences, exhibitions, special issues, and several individual articles in academic periodicals) centered around the international research project Staged Otherness: Human Oddities in Central Europe, 1850Europe, -1939 Each stage of the project involved the active cooperation of many individuals, whose goodwill and assistance ultimately made the enterprise successful.

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“…Hans Stosch-Sarrasani managed to create a successful enterprise (Danowicz 1984:15). Despite its modest beginnings, by 1912 his circus became lucrative enough to merit the establishment of a permanent headquarters in Dresden, as other similar entertainment companies had done (Otte 1999). The building was destroyed by bombs in 1945.…”

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“…Native Americans were scheduled to appear alongside members of other cultures, such as the Chinese, the Japanese and Arabs, yet the Wild West Show was advertised and described separately. This points to a continuous and unwavering interest in Indian culture (Otte 1999). The Oppelner Zeitung (1913 no 208) informed that the Wild West show performers would include eighty real Indians and cowboys.…”

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The Sarrasani Circus in Opole. On Entertainment in the City in the First Decades of the 20th Century1

Baraniecka-Olszewska

2019

Acta Ethnographica Hungarica

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The article presents outcomes of the transformation of ethnographic shows into circus acts at the example of Sarrasani Circus performances in Opole (German: Oppeln) in the beginning of the 20 th century. The author examines how circus performances created experience of the extraordinary on stage by presenting faraway, distant, exotic cultures. Thus ethnographic shows in the Sarrasani Circus were an element of magic world of wonders performed at arena. The circus visited Opole thrice: in 1913, 1928 and 1933 becoming one of the main attractions in the city. Each time the shows were preceded by a huge advertising campaign in the local German-and Polish-language press. Press articles, notes and advertisements along with scarce archival data constitute the main source for the analysis, though they offer a very specific image of the past. Taking this into account, the author focuses on the manner of conceptualizing exotic cultures to make them attractive to the city audience. Such an approach enables research on the process of presenting exotic ethnic groups within a framework of city entertainment in the first decades of the 20 th century. Therefore what the author describes is a way in which distant cultures become a stage attraction, a circus trick and an element co-creating a fantastic reality on arena.

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2014

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Sarrasani’s Theatre of the World: Monumental Circus Entertainment in Dresden, from Kaiserreich to Third Reich

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The Sarrasani Circus in Opole. On Entertainment in the City in the First Decades of the 20th Century1

Open Debate in the British Parliament and Beyond

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