Circus Sarrasani in Germany


Circus Sarrasani


Typecircus
Owner
Founded1902
First elephant arrived1902
Last elephant left1944
Closed down1945
Place Dresden
Country Germany
Website Website
Directors
Key People 1926: Cliff Aeros (artist)
Veterinarians
Elephant department
Head keepers
of elephants		 1921-1921: Wilhelm Philadelphia
(chief elephant trainer)
-1944: Fritz Oehme
(elephant trainer)
Elephant keepers
Relevant literature
Description

Circus Sarrasani, in Dresden, Germany , was founded in 1902 and the first elephant arrived in 1902. The last elephant left in 1944. Circus Sarrasani closed down in 1945 in Dresden, .


Comments / pictures1902: Circus founded by Hans Stosch (artist name Giovanni Sarrasani) in Dresden.
1902: In the same year he bought his first elephant, an Asian elephant trained to ride on bicycle, from Hagenbecks.Sarrasani later bought 7 elephants from director Pinkert in Leipzig Zoo (Source: Rudolf Kludsky).
Circus Sarrasani in Germany Germany
1910: 9 elephants swim in river Elbe at Dresden.
1914: Sarrasani bought Circus Henry
1917: An elephant was shot on the circus, and served at restaurant Bärenschenke, Webergasse 27-29 in Dresden.
1921-04-28: Rosa, the cow elephant, crushed the trainer Wilhelm Philadelphia to death on the wall of her box at the Sarrasani Circus in 1921
Circus Sarrasani in Germany Germany
Hans Stosch-Sarrasani

1926: Sarrasani had 22 elephants.
1930: Fritz Oehme was a famous elephant trainer of the circus Sarrasani during the thirties.
1934-09-21: Hans Stosch-Sarrasani died on tour in Sao Paolo.
1934-09-21: Hans Stosch-Sarrasani jun. (1897 – 1941) took over the circus.
1941: Trude Stosch-Sarrasani (1913 – 2009) took over the circus, after her husband died in Southamerica.
1944: 11 elephants, 1 hippo and 1 school horse went to National Circus Gebr. Knie from the Sarrasani together with Fritz Oehme trainer. Names: The 11 elephant bought by Knie from Sarrasani were: Menta, Tony, Rani, Herta, Punchy, Claudia, Maundy, Contess, Mary, Tarka and Frieda.
1956: Fritz Mey (1904 – 1993) and Hedwig Stosch-Brandt restarted Circus Sarrasani in Mannheim.
1980 - 2000: Ingrid Stosch-Sarrasani had the leadership.
2000: André Sarrasani (*1972), son of Fritz Mey and Ingrid Wimmer, and adopted by Ingrid Stosch-Sarrasani, took over the circus.

Sarrasani sent all of their elephants (13 or 14) to Circus Knie during the Second World War for fear of losing them to enemy bombing. They, of course, were right as their permanent building and winter quarters in Dresden was raised to the ground. Gerd Siemonite told me he saw the show in the building as a small boy and went back in the morning and the building was completely destroyed. They laid the dead human bodies out on the elephant boards because the elephants weren’t there. The only animal that survived was the hippo, which was in its tank underneath the building. Rolf Knie Snr. wrote a very good book about the Knie elephants and it talks about their origins.
Jim Clubb, UK.






References for records about Circus Sarrasani

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2021). Circus Sarrasani, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=68. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:



Search more with Google for Circus SarrasaniThe link will automatically include Circus Sarrasani and open a new browser window.


Search more on the Internet Web for Circus SarrasaniThe link will automatically include Circus Sarrasani and open a new browser window

Categories circus in Germany | Germany Portal | europe Portal


About this documentThis document was updated: 2021-11-02 17:07:37 with valid HTML5 Valid CSS


Elephant Encyclopedia and database
ELEPHANT
ENCYCLOPEDIA
Established 1995
ELEPHANT
DATABASE
Established 2006
Your ip: 54.80.173.217