Allright, university takes up all my time
lately, so I need to report to you on two events before this year's
Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig starts on Friday, I hope I can do that.
The week after Easter the
Jahrmarkt Anno Dazumal took place at the Openair Museum Kommern. It’s
a historical funfair with attractions from the Wilhelminian era/Victorian
Age until the 70ies.
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| ALL the sweets |
The organization of the
funfair had opened an application for people dressed in historical
clothing from the Victorian/Wilhelminian era to get free entry so me and parts of
the family de Loryva decided to take the chance and dress up.
Maybe you remember the video
I posted about our first Jahrmarkt Anno Dazumal, two years ago. If
not: you can find it here:
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| Outtake^^ |
Since we missed the one last
year, I went twice this year xD: The first time on Easter Monday
together with mum. It was freezing cold then and I was so glad I took
Rüdiger (my fox fur) with me.
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| Easter Monday |
The second time was together with the
lolita clique the Sunday after Easter. Luching celebrated her
birthday on Saturday so we slept over and went altogether the next
day. Fortunately it was the first day this year with really good
weather and warmer temperatures.
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| From right to left: Kitty, Baku, Luching, Harcole and me |
Since I had just finished
two Victorian bustles (some might have seen the brown one on my
tumblr and/or dA) so I borrowed her the blue one.
Fortunately we all got the
free entry
and not only that: we also got food and drinks for one Euro less! I
really like that event
and I have to thank Dr. Faber once again for this opportunity!
I believe we were quite an
impressive group and the other visitors took quite some pictures of
us. Plus the museum is a perfect background.
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| Bob going "Manta Manta" |
Now onto the funfair itself:
As I already told you they had attractions dating back to the
Victorian Era as well as a program filled with acrobats, magicians
and even a beheading!
Here are some impressions:
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| Dr Faber showing the head after the beheading |
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| Duo Unwucht |
You can see their show here:
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| M. Gilbert and his flea Madame Fifine, who just jumped in the water ;) |
I think my favourite was “Doktor Marrax und Pavel Söhne”, because they had that odd Victorian feeling to their show. Doktor Marrax is a magician who works with a special “magic powder” called Marrax-o-fax.
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| Doctor Marrax advertising Marrax-O-Fax |
The only thing I kind of
missed was the walking act of a guy trying to sell “pictures” to
the guests and was caught because of indecent behaviour by the
Gendarmes and hanged shortly afterward. Not only because I really
liked that idea of bringing life to the market, no this year we
brought our own “pictures” to swap with him :D just to see his
surprised face. Too bad he wasn’t there.
But nonetheless it was an
awesome event, we had a lot of fun and I really look forward to next year’s edition.
That was the first event I
wanted to give a report on. The next one will be on the Aethercircus,
the first German Steampunk Convention in Stade the weekend before
last week. The Steampunk Expedition Camp set up tents there and I
spend the last few weeks preparing stuff for it (like building a sun
sail with my dad^^) beside visiting the Hexentanz festival the
weekend before the Aethercircus*cough*
It’s the first “real”
time we did the Expedition Camp after the test at Luxemburg SteampunkConvention Anno 1900. So stay tuned!
To get into the right
Expedition mode: a short film Thomas, Vala and I made at Elf Fantasy
Fair 2012 in Arcen ;)
