«We can’t say that politics doesn’t interest us — we’ve been through that already». How St. Petersburg’s Upsala-Circus is reinventing itself in exile
Upsala-Circus is a social circus project for children and teenagers in difficult life circumstances. It was founded in 2000 in St. Petersburg by director Larisa Afanasyeva together with her German colleague Astrid Schorn. After the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Larisa, together with part of the team, left Russia and moved to Germany. For four years now, Upsala-Circus has been working in Zeitz, a small town in Saxony-Anhalt. It is here that the far-right party «Alternative for Germany» (AfD), which is gaining popularity thanks to anti-migrant slogans, is currently leading in the regional elections.
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