Draft:Baptista Mijares-Schreiber

Baptista Schreiber (6 April 1886 – 12 October 1956) was a Swedish circus performer. She specialized in equestrian dressage and later became a circus director.

Life
Baptista Schreiber was born in Stockholm in April 1886. She is the daughter of Johann Schreiber, an artist and circus director, and Bertha Lindberg, an actress. She began her apprenticeship at the age of five with tightrope walking. She performed in the circus run by her mother around 1900, before joining the Schumann Circus in Berlin. Schreiber initially practiced equestrian vaulting, but an injury forced her to turn to dressage for the rest of her career.

In 1913 or 1914, her usual horse, a chestnut, died suddenly under mysterious circumstances; Schreiber was then engaged at the Olympia in London. Queen Alexandra of Denmark is said to have organized a gala to raise funds so that Baptista Schreiber could find a new mount worthy of her.

She worked for the Cirque Roche in 1922 and also presented herol act at the Alhambra in Paris. Critics noted the precision of his work and the grace of the figures chosen, which "resemble dance".

In the 1930s, the Mijares-Schreiber couple founded their own circus, based in Karlskoga during the winter months and touring throughout Sweden during the summer.

In 1948, the circus hit the road for its summer tour with Sweden's biggest tent.