Circus Probst
The Probst circus was founded in September 1945 by Rudolf Probst in Großkühnau , a district of Dessau , and was one of the leading circus companies in Germany. Its headquarters are in Staßfurt in Saxony-Anhalt .
It is not to be confused with the Circus Probst , which appears in the western federal states and which is another independent company and is run by Reinhard Probst , a cousin of Rudolf Probst.
In 1953 and 1972 Rudolf Probst was expropriated in the GDR . He built the company over and over again. In order to escape the harassment of the GDR regime, which wanted to force nationalization by all means, Probst avoided from 1965 to 1972 in the " socialist brother countries ". After his expropriation in 1972, Probst was even imprisoned for two years. After his release, he went to work with his family in Poland until a license was granted again in 1982.
A special external feature was the imposing fleet of two- to three-axle clapboard cars . The program changed completely every two years and was contested by family members and committed employees. Are best known for Rüdiger Probst with its Siberian tigers , his sister Mercedes Probst with several horse shows and Maike and Joerg Probst with her in Monte Carlo award-winning Pet Revue . The crowd pullers were also the large artist groups of up to eight people , which are rarely seen in Western Europe . Probst has often made guest appearances in Hungary , Poland , Romania and Czechoslovakia . Until 2014, the company traveled every two years, on the one hand its northern tour (Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg), and on the other its southern tour through Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. The Probst circus traveled with a four-mast tent 36 meters in diameter from the Italian manufacturer Canobbio.
The coat of arms of the Probst circus consists of a globe on which a tiger and a lion sit.
Current situation
Via mdr -Sachsen-Anhalt and the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung it was informed on November 3, 2014 that employees of the circus would be fired. The tour was canceled for 2015.
As the MDR reported on March 12, 2015, circus founder Rudolf Probst died on March 11, 2015 at the age of 92.
The Probst family has decided not to go on tour with the circus anymore.
literature
- Martin Wein: Circus between art and cadre: private circuses in the SBZ / GDR. Duncker & Humblot, 2001, 92-105, ISBN 3-428-10487-0 .
- Reinhard Krug, Gisela Winkler, Dietmar Winkler: Circus posters: Circuses in Central Germany as reflected in their posters from 1946 to 1990. Books on Demand, 2005, 121-30, ISBN 3-833-42863-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Circus Probst - About Us ( Memento from April 28, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Circus founder Rudolf Probst is dead ( Memento from March 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )