il 5 agosto 2008 se n'è andata una grandissima della giocoleria... Lottie Brunn.
incollo di seguito l'articolo tratto dal New York Times in cui è presente anke il link ad un suo video.
Lottie Brunn
Brunn initially assisted her brother, but by 14 could juggle eight rings
In the annals of circus and variety history, no family better deserved the description of “the royal family of juggling” than did the Brunns.
Francis Brunn proved to be one of the greatest jugglers of all time, following in the hallowed footsteps of the renowned Italian Enrico Rastelli. His sister Lottie Brunn became known as “the world’s fastest female juggler” and of her time was undoubtedly the world’s greatest woman juggler. Their half-brother, Ernest Montego, was also a celebrated artiste in this field, and Lottie’s son (by her husband Ted Chirrick), Michael Chirrick, followed in her footsteps, making his professional debut as a talented juggler in 1970. The Brunn dynasty has given the world four of the most important juggling stars, who all added a dynamic theatrical element to their art, which in turn has influenced those who entered this field after them.
Lottie Brunn was born at Aschaffenburg, Germany, in 1925. She and Francis were taught to juggle by their father who had spent time in a French prisoner of war camp during the First World War, and had imitated the work of a circus juggler he had watched practising. They became performers and in the 1940s worked extensively within Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, their travelling restricted by the Nazis.
They became favourites of Hitler at the famous Wintergarten Theatre in Berlin where Franzl (Francis) topped the bill, assisted by his sister. However, she was talented in her own right, and one German newspaper asked: “Which juggler can afford an assistant who juggles eight rings?” They were well established on the European theatre circuit when the Italian circus booking agent Umberto Schlitzholz-Bedini, a former assistant to Rastelli, took them to America to star in the centre ring of the three-ring extravaganza, Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus, “The Greatest Show on Earth”, in 1948.
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Watch Lottie and her brother juggle
Their three-ring stint with Ringling set them up as international stars. At first Lottie assisted her brother, even though from the age of 14 she was adept at juggling eight rings. However, in 1951 she branched out with her own acclaimed solo act, and while Francis Brunn gained more fame in Europe, she chose to spend much of her 30-year career in America.
She made a rare return visit to Germany in 1967 in Elfi Althoff Jacobi’s Rudy Brothers’ Circus, with which she had appeared in America too. She was now an American citizen and was billed as the world’s leading lady juggler.
She also preformed at Cirque Rancy in France, in Las Vegas revues, at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Miami Beach nightclubs, the Cirque Medrano in Paris, Radio City Music Hall in New York, with Polack Brothers’ Circus in America, in Japan and China and at the London Palladium.
At the outset of her career she spent a year with the bandleader and satirist Spike Jones in the US, and later with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands as a support act.
Later on she worked on cruise ships, which was a tougher market as the ceilings were so low that she would often have to work on her knees, and she found it difficult to juggle up to ten objects when the ship was rolling in a storm.
After retiring she was happy to see her son make spectacular use of the juggling skills she and her brother had imparted to him.
Francis Brunn died in 2004. Lottie’s husband Theodore Chirrick also predeceased her. She is survived by her son Michael.
Lottie Brunn, juggler, was born on October 12, 1925. She died on August 5, 2008, aged 82
chissà in convention su 5360 persone, quanti la conoscevano almeno di nome (chi ha visto la german night si ricorderà sicuramente in quanti abbiano urlato i cognomi di brunn, ignatov e gatto).
la proiezione del video in ejc è stata emozionante
giusto... si dovrebbe conoscere un po di + la storia della giocoleria.. molti neanche sanno chi o cosa è Rastelli =__= ma cosi come tanti altri! Che potrei star qui ad elencare!
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