The strong man was a synonym for the show booth artist par excellence.
The strong men are often called Samson or Hercules. She put enormous weights, crushed stone horseshoe with his bare fist, torn, blasted chains, bent iron rods or proposed large carpenter nails with her hands in thick oak planks. Men with an "iron teeth" lifted heavy weights with their teeth, the "living stone quarries" or "anvils" were smashed with sledgehammers stones on their chests. Also
strong women, so do not correspond to the image of women of the time, confused the world of men by their appearance and their body forces alike.
often received visitors of the shows the opportunity to measure their forces with those of the athletes, but in the event of a victory waved high rewards. Such comparison competitions were special attraction for visitors, which the audience was of course always on the side of the volunteers from their own ranks. Showed great courage those who placed themselves in wrestling booths, the Stabuffs, the fair athlete. The admiration of the other visitors and was the adored them safe, fails to make the prize money in most cases, however,
not ... Quite a few stalls attracted to female fighters who competed against male challengers fought out or even pure ladies wrestling. The athletic competition was on these shows completely back behind a superficially rough pleasure for a male audience.
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(c) 2007 Stefan Nagel
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