Ernst Renz

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Ernst Renz and his most obedient pupil Danielo. in The Gazebo 1866
German special postage stamp from 1992 on the 100th anniversary of Ernst Jakob Renz's death

Ernst Jakob Renz (born May 18, 1815 in Böckingen near Heilbronn , † April 3, 1892 in Berlin ) was a German circus director and artist .

Life

Renz was born the son of a tightrope walker and trained as a tightrope walker himself, but later turned to horse training . He was a member of the Vienna Circus de Bach and traveled through Germany for several years with the Brilloff Circus .

In 1842 he went into business for himself with his Circus Olympic . In 1846 he came to Berlin with his circus on a guest tour. In 1850 he renamed his company Circus Renz and introduced the Parforcereiterei . His circus used a temporary building on Charlottenstrasse in Berlin's Friedrichstadt district until a new theater was built there in 1852. In the same year, Renz prevailed against his competitor Dejean in the "circus war"; his company became the most famous circus in Europe at the time. He owned permanent circus buildings in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Breslau . Renz also toured other cities on guest tours up to the 1880s.

Since he had to give up his former Berlin location in 1879 because of the construction of the Friedrichstrasse train station , on April 20 he took over the nearby former market hall in Friedrichs-Wilhelm-Stadt (Markthallenstrasse, since 1891 Am Zirkus 1) , which had been used as a circus since 1873 whose auditorium he had expanded to 5,600 seats in 1888. The Renz circus existed at this location until 1897.

In addition to horse training, art and school riding, he performed circus pantomimes and huge pieces of equipment with up to several hundred participants in the arena . Among other things, the clown Carl Godlewski was one of the stars of the Renz circus.

Renz grave site

Ernst Renz was appointed to the royal commission council. He lived in Berlin in the house at Markgrafenstrasse 11. His grave is in the Protestant Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof II on Liesenstrasse in field M, G4; it is an honor grave of the state of Berlin.

In 1993, Ernst-Renz-Gasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after the circus director, and in 1862, Zirkusgasse was named after his company.

Ernst Renz Prize

Since 1955, the Society of Circus Friends in Germany has been awarding the Ernst Renz Plaque (1955: Ernst Renz Memorial Plaque ) at irregular intervals , and since 2010 the Ernst Renz Prize .

So far, the following have been honored:

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Renz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Query of the honorary graves. (No longer available online.) In: Berlin.de. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, archived from the original on May 6, 2014 ; Retrieved April 17, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Renz, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Renz, Ernst Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German circus director and artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Böckingen , Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1892
Place of death Berlin