Oscar Carré

Oscar Carré ( Halberstadt , December 22 1845 - Copenhagen , June 29 1911 ) was a son of Wilhelm Carré and the Dutch horsewoman Cornelia Adriana Guest (stage name: Kätchen Carré). Oscar was responsible for the construction of the famous Circus Theatre Carré .

Carré was a member of a German circus family . In 1863 the family came to Carré Netherlands . Oscar in 1869 took over from his father. He built the circus into a great success and had built many permanent circus theaters, first in Vienna (1873) and in Cologne (1878) and finally in Amsterdam. In addition to German, English and Russian, he also spoke fluent Dutch.

Carré initially made use of a wooden circus building, which in 1880 on the orders of the church had to be demolished because of fire hazard. Carré decided a stone circus building on it, but only after years of administrative wrangling, he received the required planning permission in 1886. Through bonds managed to get him gather the required construction cost of 300,000 dollars; began ramming in April 1887 and already eight months later, the building could be completed. On 2 December 1887 the Circus Carré theater in Amsterdam was opened by Oscar. In this theater were during the annual fair horse shows to give. Carré continued to occur abroad, which he carried his whole circus with its own train. The train arrived in 1891 in Germany collided with a freight train, with his wife Amalia was killed and two of his children as well as one of his riders were so badly injured that they could no longer occur. Only four days later joined Oscar forced again with his circus.

The career of Carré is described inter alia in the beautiful album "Pied dream Circus", which was published in 1956 in very large print run by Dutch Dairy Bureau and still is readily available antiquarian. These must include told Carré in 1897 in Scheveningen, after the death of his second wife, and in the sight of bankruptcy (including by increasing competition of variety) could not tolerate that his beloved Trakehner stallions would be in foreign hands and that he therefore led to the dunes and shot dead. To the truth of this story, however, doubted strongly, as in the documentary " Circus Heart aired "on December 24, 2012 and January 6, 2013 by the NTR is described.

Oscar Carré was growing health problems and died in 1911 at age 65. The circus experienced hard times, including the rise of the cinema. Ironically enough Oscar Carré, alongside ringmaster with a good sense of publicity and a phenomenal horsebreaker also film pioneer, which has some of the oldest Dutch footage (including the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898 ) has to his name. The circus still eventually went bankrupt, but the work of Oscar was continued by his descendants and his grandson and granddaughter still occur.