Often, it's the smallest things, which cause the biggest astonishment. At the Flea Circus, the tiniest artists imaginable try to do so with their stunts.

By the time the Flea Circus exhibited for the first time at the Theresienwiese, at the meager post-war Herbstfest in 1948, the attraction had already travelled a lot. Its founder, Roloff Otava, already enchanted audiences all over Europe in the 19th century with the tiniest artists and athletes you could imagine seeing at a circus.

Trained by the flea tamer Robert Birk, today's artists show off their skills in football, dancing or chariot races, thereby moving weights up to 20000 times their own body weight.