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{{Infobox person
| name = Gisela Brož
| image =Gisela Brosch.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Gisela Brož from a photo in the Circus Archive in Stockholm.
| other_names =
| occupation =
| birth_date = {{start-date|1865-04-04|mf=yes}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=y|1944|01|28|1865|04|04}}
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
| death_place = New York, USA
}}Gisela Antonia Brož (Brosch) (also sometimes referred to as Gisela Madigan), (4 April 1865[1] - 28 January 1944[2]) was an Austrian-American circus performer, tight rope dancer, and clown. Her parents were shoemaker Joseph Brož and his wife Maria.[3] She went to convent school in Siebenbürgen and at the age of 15 she got to know the circus family Madigans with John and Laura who at that time toured with circus Krembser in Vienna. Gisela became their foster child and got to learn tight rope dancing, this along with the couple's two year younger daughter Elvira Madigan on the slack wire.[4]

The girls performed a unique routine where they danced at the same time on separate ropes each just above one another. The routine became a sensation, and the following years the girls performed as the duo "Daughters of the air" at circus and varieties all over Europe. After a performance at Tivoli in Copenhagen in 1886 in front of the Danish royal family, the girls both were awarded one golden cross each by the King of Denmark. In Copenhagen Gisela got to know the German circus performer Alexander Braatz (1864-1914), with whom she got engaged.[5] In the year after she left the Madigan family and married Alexander in London in the summer of 1888.[6]

The couple immigrated to the US, where the couple along with Alexanders brother and another relative founded a group of musical clowns called Barra Troupe, in the following years the group toured USA and Europe.[7][8]

Gisela and her husband became U.S citizens in 1894. Alexander died around 1914, Gisela then lived as a widow in New York City until her death in 1944.[9] The couple had two children together, Alice (n. 1888) and Walther (b. 1891).[10]

References

1. ^ Birth register, Maria Treu parish, Vienna
2. ^ New York Death Index 1852-1956, here as "Gisilla Braatz"
3. ^Grönqvist, Klas (2013). En droppe föll – En bok om Elvira Madigan. Norsborg: Recito. {{ISBN|978-91-7517-506-5}}
4. ^Jansen, Henrik M. (1989). Elvira Madigan & Sixten Sparre. Som samtiden opfattede dem - og 100 år senere. Skrifter fra Svendborg og Omegns museum, 0106-2220 ; 21. Svendborg: Svendborg og Omegns museum. {{ISBN|87-87769-09-3}}
5. ^Jansen, Henrik M. (1989). Elvira Madigan & Sixten Sparre. Som samtiden opfattede dem - og 100 år senere. Skrifter fra Svendborg og Omegns museum, 0106-2220 ; 21. Svendborg: Svendborg og Omegns museum. {{ISBN|87-87769-09-3}}
6. ^Grönqvist, Klas (2013). En droppe föll – En bok om Elvira Madigan. Norsborg: Recito. {{ISBN|978-91-7517-506-5}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.jonnyochannchristine.se/turistinformation/lund/sevardheter/klosterkyrkan/kyrkogard/madigan/|title=Familjen Madigan|publisher=|accessdate=17 July 2016}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gavledraget.se/A3/Folke_Lofgren_Dar_minnena_talar_Del2.htm|title=Folke Löfgren, Stig Henricson - rundvandring Gävle gamla kyrkogård, Del 2.|publisher=|accessdate=17 July 2016}}
9. ^Slout, William L (1998). Olympians of the sawdust circle : a biographical dictionary of the nineteenth century American circus. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8095-1310-9}}
10. ^Grönqvist, Klas (2013). En droppe föll – En bok om Elvira Madigan. Norsborg: Recito. {{ISBN|978-91-7517-506-5}}
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