Pernitza Koschke

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Pernitza Koschke
Profession	circus director
Personal details
Born


Spouse(s)	1885 - 1935 Heinrich Koschke

Residence
Address	Schloss Herminenhof
Place	Wels
State	Oberösterreich
Country	Austria

Locations
Title	assistant director 1888-1914
Location	at Circus Henry (Heinrich Koschke) in Germany

Biography details

Pernitza , circus director in Austria

was born *

Married 1885 to Heinrich Koschke born 1862 Berlin in Germany .

1885: Heinrich Koschke married Pernitza, a dressage-star.
1888: Koschke started his own circus Henry, together with his wife Pernitza, and toured Austria and Hungary.
1901: Toured for the first time in Germany.
1910: A program says he showed elephants.
1914: Koschke sold his circus to Sarrasani and bought a candle factory. His two daughters, Henriette and Hortense were both very fine riders.
1914: Ida Welena Hortense Koschke married Willy Pantzer on the 8th March 1914. (divorced in 1937) They had one child Alfred Pantzer who became Freddie Harrison - acrobat and pianist. Fred only had one son, Rod Harrison.

Pernitza Koschke is mentioned on 1 other person pagesHeinrich Koschke,

Pernitza Koschke is mentioned on 1 location pagesCircus Henry (Heinrich Koschke),

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Pernitza in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 8 December 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=909. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Heino Seitler, Der frühere Bäckermeister, Deutsche Circus-Zeitung vi (3) 1960, page 3
John de Vries, Paul Litter, Rod Harrison et al. https://classic.circushistory.org/Query/Query06i.htm

Selected publications

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