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  • ...ope. It was emblematic of an era when German circuses were trying to match the gigantism of their American counterparts—a chimera that led several o ...had been in the United States at a young age, where he had been exposed to the American giant three-ring circuses, and then returned to Europe, purchased
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  • ...reeding ground for three of the best animal trainers of the second half of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Ge ...tte (1915-1987), of whom Carola was the eldest. Dominik Athoff had founded the circus that bore his name in 1905, and was a respected director and equestr
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  • ...-Württemberg, on July 14, 1847. Before the turn of the twentieth century, the brothers worked in partnership, and their ''Circus Gebrüder Lorch'' travel ...aintained winter quarters in Eschollbrücken (today part of Pfungstadt, in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg) in southern Hessen, where Hirsch Lorch and h
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  • ...tion, under various incarnations, its permanent circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919. ...turn of the twentieth century in Europe, triggered by the European tour of the giant American circus [[Barnum & Bailey Circus|Barnum & Bailey]], which int
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  • ...lin in 1899—which remained active under Schumann’s ownership until the end of World War I. ...r’s sons Albert and Max, steadfastly preserved their family’s place in the equestrian circus’s firmament with exceptional brio.
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