The traveling show belonged to Alexander Philadelphia. It was a very small affair composed of a couple of young lions and some hyenas, but it was enough to excite the imagination of farmers who had never been exposed to such exotic marvels. Heinrich, who was active in the 1820s as a fruit farmer, was the father of Carl Krone, also born in Questenberg on SeptemCarl (whose name was sometimes spelled Karl) is the founder of the Krone circus dynasty.Ĭarl & Friederike Krone's Famil圜arl’s true calling came when a traveling menagerie visited Questenberg. The first registered Krone ancestor to settle in the area was Johann Anton Heinrich Krone (b.1794), who married Johanna Dorothea Wilhelmina Hempel, a resident of Questenberg, where he settled and had a son, Heinrich Wilhelm Krone. The first traces of the Krone lineage appeared in the early nineteenth century in Questenberg, a small village in the Harz mountains in the German state of Saxony (in what is today the Mansfeld-Südharz district of Saxony-Anhalt). Krone has proudly remained during all that time Größter Circus Europas ("Europe’s Largest Circus"). in 1943, Circus Krone became, remarkably, a woman affair: It has been first led magnificently by Frieda Krone Sembach (1915-1995), Carl’s daughter, then by her daughter, Christel Krone Sembach (1956-2017), and today by Jana Mandana Krone, Christel’s adoptive daughter-the three of them having excelled in equestrian and animal presentations as much as in circus management.
They developed international tour strategies that followed the ever-changing European economic cycles, which were strongly sustained by their successful activities in their home-based circus building, Munich’s Kronebau, established in 1919.Īfter WWII and the death of Carl Krone Jr. Yet, unlike other enterprises that followed the same model, Circus Krone’s discreet owners remained financially conservative, avoiding the dangerous ostentation of some of their colleagues in doing so, they averted the crises and failures that had often plagued their competition. (1870-1943), the Krone organization typically grew from a fairground menagerie to a giant circus, according to a pattern quite common at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe, triggered by the European tour of the giant American circus Barnum & Bailey, which introduced European audiences to their first three-ring circus traveling with a full-fledged menagerie. In addition, under various incarnations, its permanent circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.įounded by Carl Krone (1833-1900), then developed by his son, Carl Krone, Jr. Its tours in many European countries, especially between the two world wars, have established its fame beyond the confines of Germany, its homeland. 1.11 Winter Strategies and The New KronebauĬircus Krone is the world's oldest circus company: It has been owned and operated continuously by the same family for more than a century and has maintained troughout the years the standards of quality initiated by its founder, Carl Krone, as well as its original menagerie’s heritage.1.4 Circus Charles: An International Vocation.
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