Austria's national circus without animals – can it work? Sitting right in the ring of Circus Knie, Gert Kunze talks to Louis Knie Junior, heir to Europe's most famous circus dynasty: about more than 200 years of family history in its eighth generation, his father, the only person in the world to have three tigers ride on three elephants, the family's connection to Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, and why, in 2026, not a single animal is part of the show for the first time ever.