This article examines the production and promotion of popular entertainments by the German Sarrasani Circus during the interwar period and how they were used to establish specific national narratives in Germany and Latin America. Focusing particularly on its engagement of Lakota performers, it argues that the Circus acted as an active negotiator of national concerns within and beyond Germany’s borders, and presented the group as ‘familiar natives’ in order to appeal to local and national ideas of Germanness. At the same time, it shows that the performers pursued their own interests in becoming international and cosmopolitan performers, thereby challenging the assimilation forced upon their traditions and culture by institutions in the United States. Finally, it demonstrates how foreign propaganda built on the Circus’s national image in Latin America to restore Germany’s international relations after the First World War. Sabine Hanke is a lecturer in Modern History at the University of Duisberg-Essen. Her research examines the German and British interwar circus. She was recently awarded her PhD in cultural history, from which this article has evolved, at the University of Sheffield. A chapter based on her research is scheduled for publication in Circus Histories and Theories, ed. Nisha P.R. and Melon Dilip (Oxford University Press).

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在两次世界大战期间表演民族认同：德国和拉丁美洲的萨拉萨尼马戏团

本文考察了德国萨拉萨尼马戏团在两次世界大战期间制作和推广流行娱乐节目，以及它们如何被用来在德国和拉丁美洲建立特定的民族叙事。它特别关注拉科塔表演者的参与，它认为马戏团在德国境内和境外扮演了民族问题的积极谈判者，并将该团体描述为“熟悉的当地人”，以吸引当地和民族的德国观念。同时，这表明表演者追求自己的利益，成为国际化和世界性的表演者，从而挑战美国机构强加于他们的传统和文化的同化。最后，它展示了外国宣传如何建立马戏团在拉丁美洲的国家形象，以恢复第一次世界大战后德国的国际关系。Sabine Hanke 是杜伊斯堡-埃森大学现代史讲师。她的研究考察了德国和英国两次世界大战期间的马戏团。她最近在谢菲尔德大学获得了文化史博士学位，本文由此演变而来。基于她的研究的一章计划在马戏团的历史和理论，编。Nisha PR 和 Melon Dilip（牛津大学出版社）。