Fritz Mey
Fritz Mey (born July 5, 1904 in Crawinkel , † December 3, 1993 in Mörlenbach ) was a German circus director.
Life and work
As the son of a crawler carpenter, Fritz Mey was commissioned at the age of 15 to install new wooden benches in the big top of the Sarrasani circus . Despite the fascination for the circus, which probably arose during this commission, Fritz Mey initially became a civil engineer.
He later went back to the Sarrasani Circus. There he worked, among other things, as a stable boy, advertising glue, works inspector and was later considered the right hand man of the senior . In the 1930s, Fritz Mey and the wife of the founder's son Trude Stosch-Sarrasani traveled through Argentina with a second Sarrasani company.
After the Dresden circus building was destroyed by bombs in 1945 and Trude Stosch-Sarrasani emigrated to South America in 1948, Fritz Mey founded a new Sarrasani in Mannheim in 1956 with the support of Sarrasani daughter Hedwig Stosch-Brandt.
In 1968 Fritz Mey was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the revival of German circus art .
In 1972 his son André Sarrasani was born , who later succeeded him as circus director.
On December 3, 1993, Fritz Mey died in the long winter quarter in Mörlenbach in the Odenwald .
Web links
- History of the Sarrasanis on sarrasani.de
- Obituary for Fritz Mey from SPIEGEL
- History of Circus Sarrasani on Circopedia.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mey, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German circus director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crawinkel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1993 |
| Place of death | Moerlenbach |