Page 6                                                        March 1971

NEWS FROM EUROPE by KARL HEINZ ZIETHEN  

 

After seven years Fudi is in Germany again and here in the Friedrich-Stadt-Palast, of East Berlin . He works here for the first time. I believe that all Americans this famous juggler knows. Fudi (Georg Zsilak) worked by the Ringling Circus in the last years. Fudi who greets all members of the IJA works here in Berlin with great success. He is to be seen here in the Palast March and April 1971. Often the public likes to see him again and again.  

 

The same happens by the show of Francis Brunn. After twenty years the German public can see him during a revue in the city-hall of Hannover from the 22 April till the 30th.  Til now he has done only two television shows here in Germany . In the last time he works in Athens and London . From the seventh to the nineteenth March he made a television show with the circus Franz Althoff here in Germany.  In Paris he worked with great success. After a show in the Olympia the French newspapers first wrote about the artist Francis Brunn and then about the star of the show, "Adamo."

In April and May you can see Dave Parker in the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris. This is his ninth year there. In the Lido works Rudi Schweitzer and at Moulin Rouge the ball juggler Freddy Kenton. From November you can see Eric Brenn in the Lido who has a starring by the Danish circus Benneweis this summer.

Good jugglers you could see in Hambourg and Berlin in the last months. December 1970 worked in the Hansa Theater of Hambourg Italo Medini. Some years before he finished his juggling and shows the acrobatic show The King Toys. Italo and Paolo who didn't work since two years were the most famous jugglers which showed the Rastelli style in 1935.

In January you could see the new show of Bela Kremo and his son Chris in Hambourg. As duo it is another kind of work and it is an unique opportunity to see such a synchron-work. Bela and Chris appears in modern dress and juggle three hats, three cigar boxes and three balls. It is amazing how they work as a duo. Everything is done with great exactitude and accuracy.

In the month of March you can see the juggler Carals in the Hansa Theater. He starts off juggling light objects such as hats then he juggles with different big and heavy iron balls which many men would scarcely manage to lift with both hands. In between there is juggling with bits of newspaper, merely for relaxation purposes. Also the audience is shown how to catch iron balls with one's neck. Highlight of this act: Balancing of three iron balls while juggling with three iron balls at the same time.

In the Dayly Girl Club in West Berlin you could see Jean Lemoine. He is twirling ten plates on sticks. With his friend they show this as a comic act.

On the 18th of February 1971 died in an age of 46 years Jonny Blinckmann in Hambourg. With his brother he formed the clown-duo "Jocos". They were here in Germany the clowns with the greatest success after the war. Jonny Blinckmann was juggling with three banjos and was playing on them during the same time.

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