The wonderful text, "The South Seas in carnival and circus" in "The Principle of Hope" by Ernst Bloch was one of the essential impetus for further study of the shindig at the fairs of the past. A quote from this is the first published since the initial version of www.schaubuden.de. ". Mannheim friendly reminder"
Also in his article of 1931 Bloch knows the unique magic of the carnival show positions in all their diversity to portray in a particular way - although he is not the clear signs of her fading overlooked: "(...)
Bude six rows are situated on the long course, they show how big the world is. Here is a booth as a ship's hull and howl, the horrors of the Orinoco, in itself, the shell rattle to juke and mermaids with their chains. There are `rare` people and their art: a cowboy throws his lady from head to sing at the feet with knives, hermaphrodites, Egyptian gold women glow, live aquarium frogs swallow and spit them wriggling out again. At the conclusion of the stage flailing themselves of people from which a magician has made hypnosis, he also says, as the ancient Egyptians and Brahmans in their temples and `extra 'warehouses. Africa and Asia have driven at anchor, but as we are the savages, which is Europe. A somewhat vulgar picture sheet spreads out there, sure, but wealth alone distinguishes him from his southern German unimaginative Prussian fairground, the very reason early mechanization. Instead, the Mannheim was still a piece of Baroque carnival of the little man, `` Curiöses congregating, together with the fortune-telling bear the magician Salandrini and never geheuren wax figure. Gave her a lot more trash for the Mannheim fair, God preserve him on the substantive time.
(...)" (Vol. 9 of total output, Frankfurt / M. 1965, S.405f)
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