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The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus was the inspiration for the novel The Circus in Winter by Cathy Day. The book is about the fictional "Great Porter Circus", which made its winter home in the "Lima, Indiana", which stood in for the author's home town of Peru, Indiana. The author is the great-niece of an elephant trainer of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Hagenbeck's name also appears in a series of Polish books for teenagers by Alfred Szklarski. The main characters from the books travel around the world to hunt animals for Hagenbeck's circus.
Hagenbeck is also mentioned in the story "Premier amour" of Samuel Beckett as a well known lion tamer, who's buried in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery and is briefly mentioned in Water for Elephants
In the fall of 2006 The Neo-Futurists theater company of Chicago mounted an original production entitled Roustabout: The Great Circus Train Wreck! based on the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. The play was written by Jay Torrence and directed by Torrence and Kristie Koehler. The show was remounted by the Neo-Futurists in the summer of 2007 at the Chicago Park District's Theater on the Lake.
In the fall of 2009 Murder Mansion Haunted House in Forest Park, Illinois will be creating a circus themed haunted house based upon the tragedy.
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