Julius Seeth

Julius Seeth (born February 9, 1863 in Kollmoor , Holstein ; † January 20, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lion tamer .

Life

Seeth grew up as the son of an innkeeper and ferryman on the Lower Elbe . At the age of 17 Seeth began his training as a predator tamer in Wilhelm Hagenbeck's (1850–1910) predator show in Hamburg in 1880 . In the following years he worked with his own lion groups in various circuses in Europe. Its largest group included 25 lions. Until 1884 he used the pseudonym Julius Batty , based on the famous English trainer Thomas Batty (around 1832-1903), who toured Europe with six lions in the 1860s.

In 1905 he took over the management of the Schumann Theater , which was newly built by his brother-in-law, horse dresser Albert Schumann (1858–1939), at Frankfurt Central Station , which had almost 4,000 seats. Seeth was also, together with Schumann and another brother-in-law, the British juggler and horse dresser Joe Hodgini (actually Joseph Henry Hodges ; 1865-1950), a shareholder in the corporation for circus and theater construction , which ran the Schumann Theater. Under Seeth's direction, in addition to the classic circus repertoire, variety events with the most famous contemporary artists were increasingly taking place in this theater.

literature

• Authors: Taschenbuch der Arts: Entertainment art A-Z . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1977 ² .
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .