Circus photographer Piet-Hein Out visited and captured the European Youth Circus Festival of the city of Wiesbaden. Images of the festival can be found on his Facebook Timeline as well as in the November issue of Circusmagazine De Piste from The Netherlands.
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The history of the current rehearsal ring begins in the heart of Berlin when Harry Barlay opens his circus building in the Friedrichstrasse on the 25th of December 1948. After Barlay escapes from East-Germany with his circus the building is left behind and becomes State owned. It is renamed to Circus Busch and the last
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In June 1962 the Circus Krone Building in Munich is demolished. It was the second building on this site, the Marsstrasse, and quickly erected after the original Krone building was destroyed during a WWII bombardment in December 1944. Architect Ludwig Galitz already aided the Circus Krone for several construction project in Munich from around the
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In August 1889, the up-and-coming circus operator Paul Busch applies to the city of Altona, which did not yet belong to Hamburg, to build a “circus with stable buildings and a restoration/café-bar”. Permission is granted and the result is a dodecagonal gyro made of steel and corrugated iron. The main building measures thirty meters in
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