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Sep 4, 2018 · After 2009, state production of the fair was discontinued, and the fair became a privately sponsored event. (This year's Michigan State Fair is at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich ...
Mar 4, 2020 · The Captain of Köpenick was the center of drama to the last—and well beyond. As the funeral procession was on its way to reinter Voigt’s remains at his new resting place in the Notre-Dame cemetery, it passed a platoon of French soldiers, and a member of the funeral cortège informed its commanding officer that the famous Captain of Köpenick was going on his last journey.
The Captain of Köpenick (German: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a satirical play by the German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer.First produced in 1931, the play tells the story, based on a true event that happened in 1906, of a down-on-his-luck ex-convict shoemaker (Wilhelm Voigt) who impersonates a Prussian Guards officer, holds the mayor of a small town to ransom, and successfully "confiscates ...
- John Clifford Mortimer, Carl Zuckmayer
- 1971
- Wilhelm Voight – Early Years
- Moving to Berlin
- The Coup
- How ID Ended
- Aftermath
Wilhelm Voigt was born in Tilsit on 13 February 1849 as the son of a shoemaker. Already at the age of 14, Voigt was arrested for stealing, and after this he became a shoemaker who traveled around Germany. However, in the following years, he was arrested several times for various crimes. Between 1864 and 1891 he was convicted four times for theft an...
Thereupon he moved to Rixdorf near Berlin, where he lived with his older sister Bertha and her husband, the bookbinder Menz, and found work in a shoe factory. On 24 August 1906 Wilhelm Voigt was also banned from living in the greater Berlin area, although he did not adhere to it. Instead he stayed as a “Schlafbursche” in an unannounced accommodatio...
Voigt started making plans for a coup. He purchased used parts of a captain uniform of the first regiment and gave orders to several soldiers he found on the streets. Those did not recognize his costume and together they took off for Köpenickand made a short stop for a couple of beers. On their way, he explained that he is going to have the mayor a...
After the end of his action the captain of Köpenick gave his troops the order to keep the town hall occupied for half an hour. He himself went back to the station under the eyes of a curious crowd. According to newspaper reports, he was served a glass of light in the station restaurant, which he emptied in one go, and disappeared on the next train ...
All over Germany, people laughed about this act of desperation and even the court saw that not having any perspective in life after prison caused this kind of behavior. Every newspaper in the country started writing about the false captain, poems, stories and even theater plays were created and kept the political and cultural scene Germany’s busy f...
The first Michigan State Fair was held in Ann Arbor in 1839, however it drew very few attendants. The event was revived a decade later in Detroit. The 1849 event is considered the first “official” Michigan State Fair, reportedly making it the second oldest event of its kind behind the New York State Fair. Michigan had been a state for only ...
Aug 15, 2022 · This year it will be held Sept. 1-5. One year-round attraction at the old fairgrounds was the world’s largest stove, built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and moved to the fairgrounds from East Jefferson in 1965. Alas, in 2011, the stove was destroyed, apparently by lightning. In 2020, Amazon announced it would build a distribution center ...
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Sep 25, 2018 · Jeff MacNaughton, 10, of Grand Ledge, sleeps on his prize-winning heifer at the Michigan State Fair in 1985. As of the 1990s, all Michigan State Fair buildings had been renovated and the grounds landscaped. Popular with fairgoers is an exhibition where visitors see the live births of farm animals.
