Viggo Jahn passed away. The Danish magician Viggo Jahn passed away on 20 July 2004. After having won world championship in magic in 1949 Viggo Jahn performed over most of the world, including 10 years in USA. He retired as magician about 20 years ago.

25 July 2004

Circus at Bonbon-land. The Danish amusement park Bonbon-land at Holme-Olstrup has as previous years from mid June to mid August as free attraction a 50 minute long circus performances. All performers are from the 2004 production of the Swedish Circus Skratt. By tradition, Circus Skratt does not tour from mid June to mid August. The performance in Bonbon-land is presented in the big top which Benny Berdino of Danish Circus Arena earlier this year bought from Austrian Circus Elfi Althoff-Jacobi. The clown Lars Larna acts as ringmaster. First act is a nice hula-hoop act performed by Ljuba Gorbotsjova. Then comes a run in by the clowns Yuri & Leon. Next act is liberty horses presented by the Casselly-family. The youngest member of the family, 8 years old René JR, rides on a rearing horse. Then comes another run in by Yuri & Leon showing how to make rola-bola on a human pad. Yuri & Leon are followed by 13 year old Marilou Casselly in at brand new contortion routine. Very impressive but hardly healthy for her back. Then the clown Mr. Chap invites six gentlemen from the audience into the ring using four of them as the corners of a boxing ring and boxing in slow-motion with the fifth gentleman while the last person takes care of the gong. Last act in the performance is the Caselly's with their four African elephants Mambo, Tanga, Kimba and Nanda. All in all a very nice performance.

Circus Bonbon

Bonbon-land also offers performing sealions as free attraction. The Danish trainer Addie Jepsen presents two sealions. They perform both on a stage and in a pool. Two additional sealions are being trained. The sealions belongs to Benny Berdino of Circus Arena but are trained by Addie Jepsen. Benny plans to present performing sealions at his winterquarter in Slagelse. Nelly Jane and Addie met first time in 1972 when Nelly Jane was ringmaster in Swedish Circus Scott and Addie presented sealions trained by Vivi Schmidt at Circus Scott's performance. It goes without saying that Nelly and Addie should exchange old memories when Nelly Jane visited Bonbonland.

23 July 2004

Festival meeting of Danish Youth Circuses. The seventh Danish Youth Circus Festival will be held on 20 to 22 august in Odense hosted by Circus Flik-Flak. 250 youthful performers, educators and coaches will attend and workshops will be conducted. On 21 August from 13 to 17 everyone if welcome to see the young performers performing non stop in 5 circus tents. Further information from Tommy Hardam at phone + 45 66 11 48 83.

From an earlier youth circus festival. Photo by courtesy of Tommy Hardam/Circus Flik-Flak

23 July 2004

9 International Clown Festival at Bakken (Denmark's oldest amusement park, 8 miles north of Copenhagen). The final programme for this year's festival, which will take place from 5 to 15 August, is now ready. Festival producer and artistic director Benny Schumann has for the festival engaged the following artists:

The Thuranos (including 94 year old Konrad Thur who in 1999 received the Charlie Rivel Price), Toto Chabri & Co. (Toto Chabri was awarded the Charlie Rivel Price in 2001), the Japanese electric boogie master Koichiro Mori, Konstantin Rhörad, Patricia Schumann, Marie V. Jacobsen, Bakken's Pierrot, the orchestra Jollyday and Briano and the pony Musti. There are daily performances at 15:30 and 19:30 at the open-air stage. A special gala performance will be held Sunday 8 August at 11 with additional star clowns. Among those popular Danish comedian Soren Ostergaard and the famous Swiss clown Chicky who will be honoured with The World Artist and Clown Award (The Charlie Rivel Price). Chicky retired by the end of January this year but he has promised Benny Schumann to turn up in his famous dress and to present a short musical entrée.

Benny Schumann and the pony Musti is among the performers at this years clown festival at Bakkenb.

20 July 2004

The Danish crown prince couple and Benny Schumann. On Tuesday 27 July Benny Schumann and Swedish Ludvika Young Stars will give a special performance at the harbour in Aalborg in connection with The Tall Ships race 2004. The Danish crown prince Frederik and his wife crown princess Mary will se part of the show. Furthermore Benny Schumann tells that Danish TV is producing a documentary on Benny Schumann and his co-operation and friendship with Austrian painter Adi Holzer.

18 July 2004

Frankello's elephants. As in many other countries discussions regarding use of animals in circuses have been pending in Denmark. Big cat acts has been forbidden since 1962. An advisory committee to the ministry of Justice proposed last autumn not any longer to permit elephant and sealion acts in Danish circuses. However the ministry of Justice felt that very strong arguments was needed before she would issue a prohibition against elephants and sealions in circuses. And at least for this season Circus Arena, Circus Benneweis, Circus Dannebrog and German Circus Renz-Berlin (for the time being on tour in Denmark; however audience for an in Denmark unknown German family circus seems to be rather limited) has got permission to present elephants in their circuses. A very popular elephant trainer is in Denmark is German Sonny Frankello (39 years old). His first year with a Danish circus was with Circus Dannebrog in 1981 where he presented a single elephant in an act called Tarzan and Sahib. Since then he has been in Denmark in the Copenhagen Circus Building in 1988, in Circus Dannebrog in 1993, in Circus Benneweis from 1996 to 1998, in Tivoli Gardens in 1999 and with Circus Arena in 2002, 2003 and 2004. This year three of Sonny's elephants takes part of the performance: Timba (24), Mala (19) and Kenia (16) all of them females. Furthermore Sonny Frankello owns two more elephants: the bull Sahieb (25) and the 25-year-old female Sandra which Sonny Frankello bought earlier this year from Swiss Circus Pajazzo. Sahieb and Sandra are at Sonny Frankello's winterquarter at Platschow in Germany together with Sonny's wife Lillian Kröplin. During his stay in June with Circus Arena the young Danish circusfan Stefan Rothmann took a number of photos of Sonny Frankello and his elephants.

Frankello's elephants (photo: Stefan Rothmann)

14 July 2004

Wet cabaret at the terrace. 14 July at 20:30 was opening night for the show Untamed cabaret at the terrace at the terrace outside Culture Housea at Islands Brygge, Copenhagen. This summer has so far been very rainy in Denmark. However, on 14 July there was no rain until in the evening a shortly before the performance began.  A sign on the stage mentioned that it was a show created by 30 young artist during 4 rainy days. And the opening night was rainy as well. But the young performers, many of them newly graduated from the 1 year Danish Circus School AFUK did not want do disappoint the approximately 100 people who despite the rain turned up to see their outdoor show. The show lasted for one hour and we saw acts in arial straps, tissue, swing trapeze and on slack wire. Traditional acrobatic acts were due to the very wet stage difficult to present. Producers were Rasmus Aitouganov and Josephine Wulff Randrup of Duo Pelmeni. A very nice initiative with such show. And a pity that the weather wasn't more favourable to the young artists.

Photos from Untamed Cabaret 14 July 2004

11July 2004

The film about Agnete Louise Enoch. The author, circusfan and filmmaker Jorgen Lorenzen are proceeding with his film about Agnete Louise Enoch. Shooting started in May and the last scenes were taken 8 to 10 July in connection with Circus Dannebrog's visit to Blokhus and Aalborg. Jorgen is happy with the result. Now remains "only" the heavy tasks with cutting the movie. The film lasting between 30 and 40 minutes should hopefully be ready before Christmas. The film will tell the story of the life of Agnete Enoch. She is the oldest daughter of Haddy and Solveig Enoch who established the present Circus Dannebrog in 1977. Agnete Enoch has spent her entire life in circus. Earlier she performed as handstand acrobat and with a bike act and she is trained as a multiartist. Now she is press agent for Circus Dannebrog.

Jorgen Lorenzen and his star Agnete Louise Enoch

11 July 2004

Katja Schumann leaves Big Apple Circus. When the Danish Circus M Schumann stopped after season 1982 the owner Max and Vivi Schumann's daughter Katja left for USA. She had been with New York's famous Big Apple Circus in the winterseason 1981/82 with the stallion Dabo rented from Swiss Circus Knie. From the winter season 1982 and until spring 2004 Katja Schumann was a permanent member of the Big Apple company presenting horses (liberty horses as well as high school riding and riding acts as the Courier) as only a member of the famous Schumann family can do it. English cirusfriend Terry Willard visited Big Apple Circus on 13 March 2004 and describes Katja's act like this in the June issue of the English Circus Magazine King Pole: "Katja Schumann is next with yet another brand new routine. Three white horses with beautiful radiant blue plumes enter in turn and perform at liberty. Similarly plumed Shetlands then enter and finally, two Arabians perform intricate manoeuvres between arches. Another classic performance." The later years Max and Vivi Schumann spent a good part of the year with their daughter in USA and Max Schumann was amongst the performers in several seasons together with Katja's two children Katherine Schumann Binder and Max Schumann Binder. When Big Apple Circus in September opens their 2004/2005 season, with their new performance called Picturesque English Yasmine Smart will present liberty horses and Katja will not any longer be a member of the Big Apple company.

11 July 2004

"The rainy summer has some consequences," René Marvin Moenster writes on the website of his Circus Baldoni. The bad weather destroyed many of his posters (Danish circuses ordinary reuses the posters). Thus he has changed the design and bought plastic posters, which can sustain all sort of weather. And the rainy summer has improved the number of visitors to his circus. A visit to a circus is even for a person not being a circus freaks a very nice entertainment when you have stayed some weeks in a summerhouse while the rain is pouring down.  Also other circuses seems fairly happy with the sizes of the audience.

10 July 2004

Summer holiday at Circus Arena. A young Danish circus fan Stefan Rothmann spent his summer holiday in June with Circus Arena, which for the time being is the largest circus in the Nordic countries. Stefan who works for the Danish railways found it very interesting to travel with a touring circus and be part of the daily life. He took a number of photos during his stay with Arena. I will in the coming weeks show a number of these photos. The photos below was taken at a gala performance in Mogeltonder on 24 June in aid of a foundation for children with cancer

Circus owner Benny Berdino, HRH princess Alexandra, HRH Prince Joakim and Benny's son Jackie Berdino entering the circus tent

Benny Berdino present HRH princess Alexandra with a cheque of 30,000 Euro to the foundation for children with cancer.

9 July 2004 

Danish new-wave acrobats in Copenhagen. "Untamed cabaret at the terrace" is the tittle of a performance produced by the Danish Circus School AFUK and InnerCirq (an association of new wave artists). You can see the show free of charge every evening at 20:30 from Wednesday 14 July to Saturday 17 July at the Culture House, Islands Brygge 18, 2300 Copenhagen. AFUK and InnerCirq do also offer "Circus workshop at the terrace" from Thursday 15 July to Saturday 17 July, each day from 14 to 16. Her you can be taught acrobatics and fair entertainment. Also this is absolutely free of charge.

7. July 2004

Swedish Circus Bronett postponed until spring 2005. Season 2003 was very bad for Swedish Circus Scott. Their season started rather late: on 1 August. The beginning of the season was fairy good but after the assassination of the Swedish Secretary of State Anna Lindh in September which shocked everyone in Sweden attendance fell dramatically. On at good season Circus Scott used to have between 200,000 and 250,000 visitors. In 2003 just a little more than 100,000 people saw the performance. This together with increased cost for transportation, increased rent of circus lots and increased marketing costs hurt the economy. And it forced the owners of Circus Scott Bronett Bros. Event Ltd. (owned by Henry and Robert Bronett) to enter under an administration order. Since then Robert Bronett has toured with a horse show Levade Noble Horse Gala and for Italian TV produced Circo Massimo in Rome. His elder brother Henry Bronett announced in April that he would start a new circus under the name Circus Bronett with at season starting autumn 2004. However Henry has now reconsidered the matter and has decided not to start his new circus until spring 2005.

Henry Bronett

5 July 2004

Circus websites with possibility for ticket ordering. 3 of the Danish circuses offer you then possibility to order ticket at their webpages. Circus Benneweis offer you the possibility to order ticket until 5 days before the performance. Tickets are delivered by ordinary mail. Unfortunately for non-Danes you have to pay when ordering and payment can only be done if you have a Danish Credit Card. At Circus Dannebrog you can decide yourself if you want to pay when ordering (you can apart from Danish Credit Cards use a VISA-card) or wait with payment until you pick up your tickets. Tickets can be ordered until 11 a.m. at the performance day. Tickets have to be picked up not later than 15 minutes before the performance. Circus Baldoni offer you the possibility for reserving tickets at the terrace. Payment when you pick up your tickets not later than 15 minutes before the performance.

5 July 2004

Kenny Quinn. "Greeting from Copenhagen where we have spent the last month after 5 months at variety theatres in Germany," the Danish world class gentleman thief Kenny Quinn writes. Together with his wife and partner Joan he will perform at the Aarhus Festival from 23 August to 4 September. In November and December 2004 they will perform at revue in the Aalborg Congress Centre. The late Danish pickpocket artist Gentleman Jack (Tommy Iversen) trained Kenny Quinn. Kenny Quinn had his circus debut with Danish Circus Arena in 1985. At that time Kenny was only 19 years old and performed alone. Today he is performing together with his partner and wife Joan and their spectacular, high class pickpocket act is at true showstopper!

The Gentleman Thief Kenny Quinn (photo by courtesy of Kenny Quinn)

3 Juli 2004

Clown Festival at Svendborg. A lot of clowns met at the clown festival in Svendborg from 13 to 16 May. The photos below are taken by the photographer Lise Kokholm

English clown Leyo; English clown Jolly Jingles and Dutch clown Antonio.

The English clown Fuzzi and the clown Jo Jo alias John Newman who is the organiser of the festival.

1 July 2004

New-wave circus in Odense. Not only Copenhagen and Aarhus but also Odense (the third largest city in Denmark) can this year present a new wave circus performance. From 7 to 9 July the troupe Fan-atticks can be seen at Munke Mose each day at 20. Fan-atticks is an international New Circus Company which was founded in October 2003 by students of Circus Cirkör´s education Cirkuspiloterna. They are based in Stockholm and supported by CIRKÖR EXPERIMENT. Their current show is called "Lost & Found" and had its successful premiere in Kulturhuset Stockholm (Kilen) this April. They describe the story like this: "The scene is set in an old attic full of boxes, empty birdcages, furniture, old toys and long lost and “forgotten” memories. Everything is covered in a thick layer of dust. There the story takes place as an interaction between the different characters nesting in the attic. The “nesters” represent memories of the past as they unfold the stories that the old boxes and items contain. Unreeling childhood memories and dark secrets of the past. . ". Members of the troupe is 24 year old Frederik Iversen from Denmark, 24 year old Lena Köhn from Germany, 24 year old Rune Andersen from Denmark, 23 year old Gry Lambertsen from Denmark and 25 year old Anja Zuber from Switzerland. After Odense Fan-atticks can be seen at Stockholm's Pride Festival from 28 July to 1. August and t the Malmö festival on 14 August.

27 June 2004

Dawid Benneweis to Circus Knie. Circus owner Diana Benneweis 17-year-old son Dawid will from late July and until December be trainee at Circus Knie in Switzerland. Circus Knie is among the leading circuses of the world. Circus Knie will end their season 5 December in Lugano. Dawid is very interested in circus. His twin sister Nadia will after the summer holiday start at commercial school. She does not share her brother's love for circus. But it is said that she as many other young girls would love to have her very own saddle horse.

26 June 2004

Royal command performance. "The Prince and his family were in circus", press agent Christian Warrer from Circus Arena writes. When Circus Arena on 24 June visited Mogeltonder in the southern part of Jutland the income from the ticket box DKK 215,120 (approximately 30,000 Euro) was donated to a foundation for children with cancer. Queen Margrethe's youngest son Prince Joakim, his wife princess Alexandra and the couple’s two sons prince Nikolai and prince Felix was among the audience. Princess Alexandra is patroness of the foundation for children with cancer. Circus Arenas visit to Mogeltonder where the circus lot is next to the castle will be repeated next year when Circus Arena can celebrate its 50 years anniversary.

Circus owner Benny Berdino (to the right) welcomes HRH princess Alexandra and HRH prince Joakim (photo by courtesy of Christian Warrer/Circus Arena)

24 June 2004

Circus Benneweis – come and train with the performers. From 1st to 18^th July Circus Benneweis will visit Aarhus (the second largest town in Denmark). On Saturday 3rd

July the circus invites everyone to visit them between 12 and 14:30 and free of charge get a touch of training as artist by the performers at this years Benneweis performance. You can also meet the animals and hear about life in a circus. The Aarhus circus lot is placed at ”Tangkrogen”, Strandvejen 999, Aarhus.

23 June 2004

Tara Mistry –Thyra Nielsen. The female trapeze artist in this year’s performance in the small Danish Circus Charlie is from South Africa. Her name is Tara Mistry. However she is born in Koge in Denmark as daughter of former elephant and horse trainer at Circus Benneweis Hans Nielsen. Tara’s Christian name is Thyra Nielsen. Hans Nielsen is today working as a horse trainer in South Africa where Tara has spent most of her life. She can not speak one word of Danish. But her trapeze act is very nice.

Tara Mistry

22 June 2004

Cirkaos. If you last summer visited the western part of Jutland and passed the beach resort Sondervig close to Ringkobing you would meet a tiny two pole tent called Cirkaos. Apart from some animals there were only two performers: the owner Venzel Zalmov and his assistant presenting what they call a Musicomedy Show with no spoken words. This summer Cirkaos has moved to another beach resort: in Jutland called Blaavand. Cirkaos hope to attract the many tourists visiting Blaavand, most of the tourist being Danes, German, Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians and English. They present themselves as a small circus where the horses drinks bear and are dancing. The rabbits sleep in beds, the chickens ride bicycles on a tight wire, the house cats is the stars in the ring and the two human performers Augustin and Sascha are only admitted to the ring on the terms set by the animals.

20 June 2004

Circus Renz – Berlin. Danish author and circus fan Jorgen Lorenzen visited Circus Renz in Aarhus on 20 June. Approximately 200 people saw the performance. The equipment was in a good condition with 12 large trucks. The tent was a 4-pole tent with a seating capacity of 960. Members of the owner’s family did the entire performance. Classical circus act, being neither especially good nor especially bad. Best acts were high school riding, the 4 elephants and a tight wire act. But the performance was missing what Germans calls ”Spitzenleitstung”. Not much fun or smiles. But a superb 6-piece circus band from White Russia. The owner presented the performance in German however with a few words in Danish. Linda Due Mortensen from Apenrade assisted him.  At other performances he is assisted by Janni Birk whose partner former strong man Hercules is a relative of the Renz family. Danish agent is Kurt Heilmann from Krusaa.

Bernhard Renz Jr. with 4 Indian elephants

19 June 2004

Marianne and Jess Deluran established Circus Mascot in 1994 as a dog and pony show. They have since then every year presented nice performances. The 2004-performance is opened by 6-years old Andreas (Jess and Marianne’s youngest son) with a nice little song. Then comes the juggler Ulmas (Ulmas Gulyamov) with a nice act. Trio Bilovodska (father, mother and son) follows him with a human doll act. Miss Prymachenko (Tatyana Primachenko) has a fine act in vertical rope assisted by her husband Ulmas Gulyamov. Next act is a magician act performed by Jess, Andreas and Marianne Deleuran. Then comes Gauca Igor (the father from Trio Bilovodska) with a handstand act. Last act before the interval is Marianne Deleuran with her trained puddles. First act after the interval is Daniel (Marianne and Jess oldest son being 14) on slack wire. Jess Deleuran present his 4 ponies in a most charming way. After him comes Mykhaylo (father and son from Trio Bilovodska) with a perch act. It is first time Circus Mascot presents such an act. Gulio (Ulmas Gulyamov) who has several fine entrees does run-in clowning. The performance runs for 2 hours and is backed up by taped music. Circus Mascot has this year got new and improved seating facilities.

Jess Deleuran with 2 of Circus Mascot’s ponies
 

18 June 2004

Circus Renz-Berlin in Denmark. For the time being German Circus Renz-Berlin is touring Jutland. They have horses, elephants, camels and dogs but are despite their large tent in reality a small family show where most acts is presented by members of the family. Owners of Circus Renz-Berlin are Bernhard and Theresia Renz. As ringmistress in Denmark they have engaged Danish Janni Birk, who many years ago was working in American circuses. Janni did also present the program when Circus Renz-Berlin about 10 years ago without success tried their luck in Denmark. Since then she have together with her husband the strong man Hercules run the tiny Danish Circus Pinocchio (sometimes called Circus Prinsess (sic)) with Janni and Hercules at the only performers.   The last couple of seasons have not been good to circuses in Germany. That’s why some of them try their luck in other countries. Circus Renz-Berlin intents to stay in Denmark until late August. Their first performance in Denmark this year was on 11 June in Aabenraa (Apenrade).

16 June 2004

Narren international festival of street theatre and comedy. In 1995 Kulturhus Aarhus was asked to start organising the city's summer entertainment in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens. For more than 50 years the city has been organising various forms of entertainment for children during the school holiday, featuring a wide variety of music and stage performances. During the 1990s it was not financially possible to maintain the wide variety of events in the programme, and at the same time many other cultural activities were being arranged for children and families by private organisations. As part of the summer entertainment Kulturhus Aarhus has since 1999 every summer produced an international festival of street theatre and comedy called “Narren” (Narren is Danish for The Jester). This year the festival takes place from 25 to 27 June. Among the performers this year are the young Irish acrobat troupe Yella Fever Foundation, Danish/Argentinean acrobats Teatro Glimt, (Lars Gregersen and Camila Sarrazin), The Joyful Juggler (Jon Skjerning-Rasmussen), the female clown Marta Gabayo from Spain and Danish arial cradle acrobats Duo Aerius (Maja and Esben Aerius). Duo Aerius have performed at German variety theatres since the in September 2003 was awarded the first price at the Dresdner Variete- und Zirkus Festival. Esben and Maja have just started an engagement at Benidorm Palace at Costa Blance in Spain where they can bee seen until October. Thus, their visit at the Narren festival might be the only chance to see the two talented Danes in Denmark in 2004

Female Spanish clown Marta Gabayo is among the performers at this years Narren Festival. (Photo taken at the International Clown Festival at Bakken 2003)

12 June 2004

The Circus Museum at Hvidovre, Copenhagen. On 10 June the Circus Museum opened a new special exhibition called ”The Circus Ring” prepared by 4 young ethnography students from the Copenhagen University. The museum's activity co-ordinator Mikkel Knudsen has sent me the photos shown below. As part of the new exhibition the late world famous clown Charlie Rivel's wig, guitar and clown nose is on display.

11 June 2004

Nelly Jane Benneweis 70 years. Tuesday 15 June Nelly Jane Benneweis, former ringmistress and press agent for Denmark’s famous Circus Benneweis, will celebrate her 70 years birthday. She was born in Bronshoj (a Copenhagen suburb) as daughter of a master cabinetmaker. Her Christian name was Annette Otto Jensen. Her father called her by the pet name Nelle-girl. That’s where her artist name Nelly Jane comes from. After having finished school she got at job as ballet dancer at the Copenhagen variety theatre Lorry. After that she worked for several years as ballet dancer at various variety theatres especially in Germany.

A young Nelly Jane as dancer

In 1964 she was back at the Lorry Variety theatre in Copenhagen as compére. During those days Lorry each year in December presented some Danish acrobats. The late Eli Benneweis, owner of Circus Benneweis, saw one of the performances at Lorry and offered Nelly Jane a job as ringmistress in his circus. Thus, on 2 April 1971 she had her début as ringmistress at the circus lot in Hilleroed 20 miles north of Copenhagen. In 1972 she worked as ringmistress for Circus Scott in Sweden. From December 1972 to February 1973 and again from December 1973 to February 1974 who was ringmistress at the famous English wintercircus Belle Vue in Manchester. This job gave her the well-deserved pet name ”Lady of the Ring”.

Nelly Jane on the front cover of Circus Belle Vue’s 1973/74 program

1974 saw Nelly Jane back at Circus Benneweis where Eli Benneweis asked Nelly not only to be ringmistress but also to be press agent and be responsible for tour planing, public permits etc. Nelly Jane was ringmistress at Circus Benneweis from 1974 to 1994. Most seasons she worked with the tented how. But from 1969 to 1982 she presented the circus performance in the Copenhagen Circus Building, which Eli Benneweis run from 1970 to 1990. She became an extremely popular ring mistress. She continued as Cirrus Benneweis press agent until 2003. She is still assisting the present owner of circus Benneweis Diana Benneweis with a number of tasks. Nelly Jane got the surname Benneweis when she on 9 April 1977 married Eli Benneweis smaller brother Sonny. Two years later Sonny died by cancer. Nelly Jane has had a number of positions of trust in the circus world. Among those a position as judge at the Circus Festival in Monte Carlo in 1990 and the European Youth Circus Festivals in Wiesbaden in Germany.

Nelly Jane and his highness Prince Rainer. Photo taken at the Circus Festival in Monte Carlo in 1990

Nelly Jane as hundred of thousands Danes remember her (Photo: Roy Himsel, from Swedish Circus Magazine Cirkuläre Notiser)

7 June 2004

New artist in Tivoli. The performers at the Open Air Stage in Copenhagen’s famous Tivoli Gardens change several times during the season. From 7 June to 8 August you can see French Max Weldy with his great comical trampoline comedy act and the 3 young break-dancers Old School Killarz. The actress and singer Susanne Breuning present the performance. Tivoli’s Big Band (a full size big band) accompanies the performance.

One of the three Old School Killarz

4 June 2004

Royal command performance. When Circus Arena on 24 June will perform in Mogeltonder in the southern part of Jutland the income from the ticket box will be donated to a foundation for children with cancer. Queen Margrethe's daughter in law princess Alexandra (married to the queen’s youngest son prince Joakim) and the couple’s oldest son prince Nikolai will be among the audience. Call Circus Arena at + 45 40 30 30 40 if you want to buy tickets to this special royal command performance.

3 June 2004

Clowns in Hilleroed. Several of the clowns who had participated in the International Clown Festival in Svendborg from 13 to 16 May made a visit to Hilleroed 20 miles north of Copenhagen on 18 and 19 May. The people of Hilleroed could meet clowns all over town. Lise Kokholm took the photos below.

Female Dutch clown Masjolie as hairdresser

Clown Palle of Toons watching for the other clowns

Female clown Pee-wee (Mette Moeller) had arranged the visit to Hilleroed

1 June 2004

Benny Schumann’s Mini Circus. The Danish clown and multi-artist Benny Schumann (son of Albert and Pauline Schumann and the late Charlie Rivel’s grandson) has since 1980 performed all over Denmark with his one-man show as juggler, ventriloquist, tightrope walker, magician and clown with music and gags written by himself. Sometimes a pony show is included in the performance. The photo below of Benny and the pony Musti was taken in Elsinore on 29 May 2004. Please notice the beautiful back cloth.

26 May 2004

News from the Circus Museum at Hvidovre, Copenhagen. The museum, which has the largest circus collection in the Nordic countries, have just received a donation DKK 2,870,000 (equivalent to 285,000 Euro or 470,000 USD) from the Danish Labour Market’s Holiday Foundation. Receiving such donation of cause delights the museums new management team Anja Olsen (curator) and Mikkel Arne Knudsen (co-ordinator of activities). – On 10 June the museum will open a new exhibition with clown costumes. The museum has borrowed the chair, the wig and the guitar used by the late world famous clown Charlie Rivel from Charlie’s grandson Benny Schumann.

The museums new management team Anja Olsen and Mikkel Knudsen in front of the museum

24 May 2004

German circus friends to visit Denmark in September. Olaf Werner’s Circusreisen in Oldendorf, Germany, will arrange a circus trip to Copenhagen, Denmark from 9 to 13 September. The group will visit Circus Arena, Circus Benneweis, Circus Dannebrog and the Tivoli Gardens. You can call or fax Olaf Werner on (0049) 0 51 58-20 51 for further information.

16 May 2004

New tent for Circus Charlie. Shortly before season opening in March Circus Charlie’s tent was destroyed at a heavy storm. Thus, the opening took place in a borrowed tent. The destroyed tent was 10 years old and circus owner Einar Trie had planed to purchase a new tent in 2005. Now he was forced to speed up the purchase and ask his tent supplier Studsgaard Sails in Frederikshavn in the northern part of Jutland to deliver him a new tent ASAP. The new tent, which was manufactured in less than a month, is similar to the old one – a four-pole tent seating 450 people. Nice to see that it is not only Italian firms who can produce high quality circus tents.

Circus Charlie’s new tent

13. May 2004

New wave circus in Copenhagen in June, July and August. As previous years Copenhagen’s International Theatre (KIT) will present some new wave circus performances in Copenhagen.

First show will be Le Cirque Invisible. A circus with only two performers: Victoria Chaplin & Jean Baptiste Thierrée. ” Wondrous! Quite simply. When Victoria Chaplin and her husband Jean Baptiste Thierrée enter the stage to create their invisible circus the effect is magical, fantastic, poetic and mysterious. ”The greatest show on earth with the smallest cast imaginable” The Observer wrote. Le Cirque Invisible can be seen from 28 June to 2 July.

Next show is Licedei from Russia with a performance called ”Semianyki”. ”Semianyki” is Russian for ”family”. Licedeu is Russian Clowns at their best. This highly entertaining family show about a completely chaotic Russian mother and her spoiled children can melt hearts within minutes with their original and both believable and unbelievable figures. With an amazing technique and perfect timing they communicate the most complex situations through facial expressions, rubberlike bodies, twitching eyebrows, slap stick and a nonsense language. The performance can be seen from 6 to 10 July.

Third show is Okidok from Belgium with the performance “HaHaHa!!!”. It can be seen from 10 to 13 July. Based on the classic clown and inspired by Tolkien’s universe, the duo Okidok takes us into their make-believe world, where the smallest details can make a world of difference, normality changes into complete absurdity, and simple things become amazingly complicated. This is Laurel and Hardy staged by Beckett for the family. “As a result, the audience of all ages is soon helpless with laughter” The Guardian wrote.

New wave circus number four is simply called Cirque. They are from Switzerland and France and their performance is called “Smile at the Foot of the Ladder”. Less is really more. Magic simply grows out of nothing in this life-affirming and glowing creation. The story should be based on a novel by Henry Miller. Cirque will perform from 8 to 14 August.

The last show, which can be seen on 12 and 14 August, is Circus Baobab from Guinea with the performance ”The legend of the drumming monkey”. Directed by the legendary Archaos director Pierrot Bidon, this is an African extravaganza of uninhibited dancing, high-risk acrobatics, amazing juggling and clowning to high energy traditional live West African music. With an extraordinary set of the Baobab Tree as the central feature of a show which literally explodes in a sensational finale which will light up all the open-air amphitheatre of Hedeland.

10 May 2004

 
News from Teatro Glimt. ”I hope everything is well in Denmark. Down here at Barcelona in Spain we are still waiting for the summer”, Lars Gregersen of the Danish/Chilean artist troupe Teatro Glimt (Lars Gregersen and Camilla Sarrazin) writes. He continues: ”We will this season give 3 performances in Denmark: on 18 and 19 June in Copenhagen and on 25 June in Aarhus. It will be with our new show. "...2 minutes, and we open!" The history occurs in a travelling bar, where the barkeepers, a most peculiar couple, prepare to receive the clients. It is the history of the two proprietors, of their love and hate between themselves and their customers.  It is streettheatre, circus techniques, dance, live music, humour and with a lot of love. A mix of the stagearts. The show can be done in the street and in indoor theatre. You can find further information on Teatro Glimt and their new shows at http://teatroglimt.jones.dk (language: English)

8 May 2004

Ulla Böttner passed away. On 16 April circus owner Diana Benneweis half-sister Ulla Böttner passed away 53 year of age. For some years Ulla Böttner had been chief financial officer in Circus Benneweis and in this and other capacities an outstanding assistant to Diana Benneweis. On 16 April the staff from Circus Benneweis had a day off in Roskilde. Ulla Böttner had been doing some shopping in town together with her boyfriend Leszek. Shortly after they were back on the circus lot Ulla Böttner suddenly collapsed in a coma in her living wagon. She died shortly after without regaining consciousness. Funeral took place on 23 April in Middelfart. The death of Ulla Böttner has been mentioned in a couple of weekly magazines in Denmark.

7 May 2004

The Danish dog and pony show Circus Krone (no connection with the large German circus) can this year celebrate its 20 years anniversary. The present circus owner Irene Thierry’s late father started in 1939 a small circus "Circus Thierry" giving performance at local fairs. Later on the name was changed to Circus Krone. There were only 3 performers: Regner Thierry and his wife Ebba and his brother in law Ejner Holmberg. Later on Irene Thierry and her brother Ricard joined the team. Later on the family bought a touring carnival and the circus stopped. In 1984 Irene Thierry re-established Circus Krone together with her sons Frank and Mark. Since 1984 Circus Krone has been on tour every year. For this season Irene Thierry has engaged Roland and Nemeth Dittmar from Hungary, Ivana and Konstantin Bessogonov from Czech (rola bola and quick change act) and Ruth Salama from France (tight wire and arial act). Frank Thierry presents a comical magician act. Irene Thierry’s husband Jan Allan presents liberty horses and performs at the clown Allando.

6 May 2004

Circus Poodle as a movie star. One of Marianne Deleuran’s poodles has recently had a minor part in a new Danish movie about Danish fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen. If the shot is used in the final version one can for about 20 seconds see Pico dancing around on his forelegs. Shooting took place in 7 April. The day after Pico and Marianne Deleuran were back in the Deleuran familily's Circus Mascot.

Marianne Deleuran with some of her dogs. I believe it is Pico pushing the pushchair.

30 April 2004

New management at the Circus Museum at Hvidovre, Copenhagen.  The Circus Museum has engaged Anja Olsen as curator as of 1 May 2004. She has an BA in ethnology from Copenhagen University and has previous worked at the Danish open-air museum. She was in January 2004 involved in the preparation for the Circus Museum’s special exhibition of ventriloquist dolls. Furthermore the museum has as of 1 May engaged Mikkel Arne Knudsen as co-ordinator of activities. He has a BA from Aarhus University in history and has worked for the Aarhus City Museum.

The new curator Anja Olsen seen at the opening of the special exhibition of ventriloquist dolls on 29 January 2004.  Photo: Lise Kokholm

28 April 2004

The Copenhagen circus lot ”Bellahoj”. The owner of the lot the Copenhagen city council has now started a renovation and draining of the lot. Danish tented circuses has used the lot during their visit to Copenhagen at least since 1951. The lot has for several years been a muddy lot in a rather miserable condition. The cost of renovation is estimated to 470,000 Euro. The renovation will take some months. First circus to use the renovated lot will be Circus Benneweis, which this year will be at Bellahoj from 2 to 12 September.

Shortly after the audience has left Circus Arena after their last performance for this year at the Bellahoj lot (photo: Stefan Rothman) the Copenhagen city council started the renovation and draining of the lot. Both photos are taken form the same position at the corner of Hulgaard Street and /Borup’s Avenue.

 25 April 2004

For a number of years I have every spring send a short review of the previous circus season in Denmark to some friends in the English-speaking part of the world. Click here to read The circus year in review 2003 - Denmark.

23 April 2004

Valentin Glazyrin does retire. ”Our fantastic trainer, good colleague and close friend Valentin Glazyrin has decided to leave his position as trainer/teacher at the Copenhagen Circus School AFUK and revert to Moscow to enjoy his retirement. He will be celebrated at a reception to be held Tuesday 27 April from 16 to 19 at AFUK, Kigkurren 1, Copenhagen", writes a spokesman for AFUK. Valentin Glazyrun has trained a number of new wave artist among those Esben and Maja Aerius from the arial cradle Duo Aerius (well-known star performers at e.g. German Variety Theatres). ”Valentin is one of the greatest and most important personalities within the development of "cirque contemporaine" in Denmark”, Duo Aerius writes. They add: "Mji Tebja Ljubjem" – We love you.”

20 April 2004

”A small circus but a good experience!” Danish circus fan Hans Vedel writes. He continues: ” A chilly evening in the small village of Terndrup. Not large expectations for a good circus experience. The dog and pony show Circus Mascot – the Deleuran family and two foreign artist families. Worth to see?

The answer is a clear yes. There is not much room in the small tent but this is all forgotten when there is check on light setting, sound and a friendly atmosphere only to be found in smaller circuses. Ponies, dogs, magicians, jugglers, a fine act in vertical line, clowns, perch and handstand acts. A well-running performance where the light setting and the taped music backed up the individual acts especially the clown Gulio who made the kids cheer loudly. A good circus experience which made me a fan of the large circus Arena happy to realise that we still have small circuses spreading joy to the people even in smaller villages.”

19 April 2004

Artist in Tivoli. The performers at the Open Air Stage in Copenhagen’s famous Tivoli Gardens change several times during the season. Until 6 June you can see The Argentinean Devils with their Bolas/Gauchos/Argentinean Folklore Dance Act and the four young acrobats Crazy Flight presenting a Handvoltige Acrobatic/Partner Equilibristic Act. The actress and singer Susanne Breuning is presenting the performance. Tivoli’s Big Band (a full size big band) accompanies the performance.

Argentinean Devils

Crazy Flight

16 April 2004

Circus Baldoni had at the last of the tented Danish circuses its opening day on 16 April in Dragor. However they toured Isle of Bornholm during the Easter holidays as dress rehearsal. The tent is the same as in 2004 but the stage on which the non-animal performance takes place have been rebuilded and enlarged and the entrance to the stage has been changed as it can be seen at the picture beyond of circus owner Baldoni with his lion Leonardo.

15. April 2004

Agnete Louise Enoch. ”We are now starting to produce the film about Agnete Enoch,” tells Jorgen Lorenzen, author of circus books and film producer. Jorgen further tells that Aarhus Movie workshop will provide the funds for camera-team, equipment and editing facilities. Shooting will start in May and will take a couple of month. The film lasting between 30 and 40 minutes should hopefully be ready before Christmas. The film will tell the story of the life of Agnete Enoch. She is the oldest daughter of Haddy and Solveig Enoch who established the present Circus Dannebrog in 1977. Agnete Enoch is press agent and ringmistress for Circus Dannebrog. She is trained as an artist and has lived all her life in circuses.

Agnete Louise Enoch and the author and producer Jorgen Lorenzen

9 April 2004

Circus Dannebrog opened their season on 3 April in Kolding but did not invite the press to se the performance until 8 April in Odense. Circus Dannebrog has got new and improved seating facilities and is considering to purchase a new tent in 2005. Their present tent having a diameter of 34 meter and seating 999 persons is from 1998. The performance took place in the ring and on a stage. After circus owner Haddy Enoch’s welcome you met Trio Tsytko (two men and a woman) whose male partners performed with a combination of foot juggling and Risley act. Next act was Marina and Igor Markevich with their dogs. Igor was dressed up as a clown and the couple had a run-in later in the performance. Next performers were the di Lello’s clowns presenting first a comical ballet act and then the classical act with the broken mirror. Katja Enoch (Haddy and Solveig Enoch’s youngest daughter) and Rachid Nouri riding high school introducing Isabella Enoch (Katja’s sister) in trapez followed them. Then Freddi Steckel who acted as ringmaster in the first part of the performance told that many visitors had been missing Dennie Enoch (Haddy and Solveig Enoch’s son) in the Enoch family’s traditional bicycle act. Thus Dennie would present the act in 2004. But after Dennie had made a few turns in the ring yelling was heard from the entrance and the younger members of the Enoch family and some of their friends entered the ring and wanted to show who was the true bike acrobat stars! In the troupe you could among others see Dennie’s son Jimmy Enoch, Isabella’s sons David and Edward Enoch, Agnete Louise Enoch’s daughter Victoria Enoch and Bernhard Cassellis two daughters. After the bike act Chinese Duo Yingling had their first act juggling and balancing sunshades on their feet. It was a very elegant act. Liberty ponies presented by Victoria Enoch and liberty horses presented by Katja Enoch followed them. Bernhard Casselly presented his camels and Mr. Vitaliy an act in aerial straps. After the interval Agnete Louise Enoch (Haddy and Solveig Enoch’s oldest daughter) took over as ringmistress and presented Duo Yingling’s second act: juggling with scarves. An outstanding presentation receiving more applause than any other of the acts. Very well deserved indeed.

Duo Yingling

Next act was the comical casceadeurs Two Steckels (Freddi Steckel and Isabella Enoch) with the great act with which Freddi for several years using various female partners have entertained the audience. They got almost the same applause as the Chinese girls. Again very well deserved. The di Lellos presented their musical entrée with the female partner as white-faced clown. Before that the couple have had a couple of run-ins. Last acts in the performance were Bernhard Casselly’s 2 African elephants Rambo and Baby and the teeterboard acrobats Trio Nikita. As for the last number of years taped music was used. The performance runs for 2 hours and 40 minutes. However circus owner Haddy Enoch want to shorten the performance a bit. It will not be an easy task with such a nice and well-running performance.

Two Steckels

8 April 2004

Circus Benneweis had their opening day in Hillerod on 7 April. It was a rather nervous circus owner Diana Benneweis who welcomed the audience. There had been many problems close to the opening – much more than usual. The most serious problem was when Laci Endresz who for several years have directed and staged the performance (as he is directing and staging several other circus performances apart from his very own performance in Blackpool Tower Circus in England) due to other activities hadn’t time to assist Diana in 2004. In her distress Diana Benneweis with short notice called her cousin Kim Benneweis who left Circus Benneweis in season 1995. From 1998 to 2001 Kim worked for competing Circus Arena and in 2002 he was property boss in Swedish Circus Scott. Apart from that Kim have been working as export truck driver. Kim promised to assist his cousin and he has certainly done an outstanding job. Thus Diana had no reason to be nervous. First act in the performance was the clown Francesco. Then Mr. Dalmatin (Sergej Prostetsov) presented his two Dalmatians plus ten poodles and two Shetland ponies in an impressive routine with the poodles as trick riders. Next act were Russian handstand acrobat Maxim Popazov with an elegant act. Duo Minasov presented a quick-change act. Last act before the interval were Evgeni Shmarlovskiy (sometime spelt Chmarlovsky) with his comical magician act with animals. Especially his living mink coat is well known. After the interval Amadeo Renz assisted by his father Franz Renz presented 3 Indian elephants. Next act was Victor Minasov as Mr. Ballon. Then followed the two best acts in the performance: First 13 year old juggler Allan Sulc bounce-juggling up to 9 balls in river-dance style and with great speed. An outstanding world class act.

Allan Sulc

Then we saw the high wire troupe Los Quiros with the greatest high wire act I have seen for many years. When they was rewarded a Golden Clown in Monte Carlo in 2002 the troupe had 4 members. Only 3 were seen at the opening in Circus Benneweis. But the presented the same outstanding acts for which they were awarded the Golden Clown in 2002. In the interval between the other acts Francesco had several run-ins. At the opening Kim Benneweis acted as ringmaster. However according to plans he will leave Circus Benneweis in a week or so and will as ringmaster be replaced by Circus Benneweis’ press agent Jannik Stanley Nielsen. Hopefully Diana Benneweis will again in 2005 ask Kim to direct and stage the performance unless some foreign circus owner is faster to offer Kim such a task for which he has proved to be highly qualified. – The performance was backed by a 5 piece-band. Unfortunately last years bandleader Pete Robinson has become ill and can’t play his keyboard. At the opening he was directing the 5 musicians but he will probably only stay for a while.

Los Quiros

After the performance Diana Benneweis thanked Kim Benneweis for his very valuable assistance with this years performance

5. April 2004

The Copenhagen Tivoli Garden. As always Tivoli will at their Open Air Stage present some first class acrobats as free attractions. This season's acts are subject to change: 17 APRIL-6 JUNE: Crazy Flight (4 acrobats from Ukraine presenting a Handvoltige Acrobatic/Partner Equilibristic Act) and The Argentinean Devils (Bolas/Gauchos/Argentinean Folklore Dance Act). 7 JUNE-1 JULY+12 JULY-8 AUGUST: Max Weldy (Comical Trampoline Comedy Act). 9 AUGUST-19 SEPTEMBER: Symbiose (2 Canadian acrobats presenting a Partner Equilibristic Act) and Ukrainian Ruslan Fomenko (Ball Juggling Act).

2 April 2004

Mark of honour to Chicky. At the gala performance on 8 August 2004 at the International Clown Festival at Bakken north of Copenhagen famous Swiss clown Eugen Altenburg better known as Chicky will be honoured with The World Artist and Clown Award. Chicky retired by the end of January this year but he has promised festival producer and artistic director Benny Schumann to turn up in his famous dress and to present a short musical entrée. His partner for many years the white-faced clown Bruno (Bruno Stutz) can due to an engagement with German Circus Krone not attend. Chicky and Bruno had as Chicky & Co. their first performance in 1957 in Trolle Rhodin’s Zoo Circus in Sweden. The have performed many times in circuses in Denmark: in Circus Moreno in 1961, at Circus Schumann in the Copenhagen Circus Building 1964, in Circus Benneweis in 1972 and 1978, in the Copenhagen Circus Building in 1979 and at Circus Benneweis in 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Their latest performance in the Nordic countries was in 1999 in Circus Maximum in Sweden. Then latest couple of seasons before retirement Chicky spent with Circus Krone in Germany.

Eugen ”Chicky” Altenburger

31 March 2004

Clown Festival at Svendborg. As earlier years the Danish Clown Association will arrange a clown festival at Svendborg from 13 to 16 May. You can find the full program and other information at www.clownfestival.dk

28 March 2004

Ringmaster at Circus Benneweis. Until season 1994 the Benneweis performances were as in most circuses introduced and presented by a ringmaster. In 1971 and from 1974 to 1994 the “ringmaster” was a woman: Nelly Jane Benneweis known at Lady of the Ring. She was a gifted ringmistress. But in 1995 she stopped as ringmistress but continued as press agent for Benneweis. In 1995 no ringmaster was used at the start of the season. However by the end of the season in Copenhagen the white-faced clown Bruno of Chicky’s presented the performers. In 1996 and 1997 Gitte Jespersen was ringmistress. However she became never as popular as Nelly Jane. And since 1998 Circus Benneweis have used no ringmaster. It have only been in the printed program you could find the names of the performers. Many in the audience have been missing the ringmaster. Thus, in the coming season Jannik Stanley Nielsen will act as ringmaster. He is a reporter by education and joined Benneweis last season. This year he is also the shows press agent.

25 March 2004

The Danish high grass circus Circus Arli has published its 2004-program. Circusowner Soren Arli's daughter in love Bettina Arli is ringmistress. The performers are Samson Power (Luka Odhiambo, born in Nakutu, Kenya) with African acrobatics and folklore. The clowns Martino & Co. (Martin and Bettina Arli) present a brand new entrée. Darius presents ladder balancing. Martin Arli can be seen as ventriloquist with a naughty doll. Picards from Hungary presents a canine act. Alexander Arli presents a rola-rola act. Vicurius is called funny jugglers and clowns. Furthermore the audience will meet pigeons and stepdansers and lots of funny clowns. Opening day is in Flong on 3 April.

Martino & Co (photo from 2003)

24 March 2004

German circus to Denmark? Rumours have several times said that German circuses were planning to tour the Jutland peninsula. Such rumours have often made Danish circusowners a bit nervous. In 2001 the German non-animal show called ”Manege – Visionen der Phantasie” was planning to tour Denmark for two months and last year Circus Berolina had decided to visit Kolding in the southern part of Jutland in October. But the visit was cancelled. Apparently Circus Berolina had not foreseen the problems in bringing their many animals to Denmark: big cat acts are not aloud in Denmark and permission is required to present acts with elephants. And camels and lamas have to be tested for foot- and mouth disease to cross the Danish border. This year a rumour says that Circus Renz-Berlin is planning to tour Jutland. If information at their website www.circus-renz-berlin.de is to be trusted they have a large tent with a diameter of 48 meter seating 1,800 persons. They have horses, elephants, camels and dogs but are despite their large tent in reality a small family show where all act is presented by 8 members of the family. Owners of Circus Renz-Berlin are Bernhard and Theresia Renz. Bernhard Renz senior who was born in 1920 claims to be the oldest circus owner in Europe. The last couple of seasons has not been good to circuses in Germany. That’s why some of them tries their luck in other countries such as Holland and Austria and maybe now also in Denmark. Apart from some new wave shows most foreign circuses visits to Denmark has been a disaster from a financial point of view.  Even for international high quality shows it is mighty difficult to tour in an area where their name are totally unknown.

24 March 2004

Circus Dannebrog 2004. ”A circus fairy tale – all around Denmark” is Circus Dannebrog’s 2004-performance called. Opening day is at Kolding in the southern part of Jutland on 3 April. As previous years circus owners Haddy and Solvej Enoch's oldest daughter Agnete Louise Enoch is ringmistress. Her smaller sister Katja Enoch present Circus Dannebrog’s liberty horses. Freddi Steckel presents his comical casceadeur act assisted by Haddy and Solvej Enoch’s third daughter Isabella Enoch who also will perform in trapeze. The Enoch family speciality, a bike act, can this year be seen in a new version called The Haddie’s family and international friends. Bernhard Casselly presents his camels and his two elephants. Duo Yingling from China are acrobats.  Mr. Vitality can be seen in an aerial strap act. Trio Tsytko combines foot juggling with a Risley Act. Vyacheslav’s is a juggler and Trio Nikita teeterboard performers. Marina and Igor Markevich present their dogs. Di Lellos who became very popular when they toured with Circus Dannebrog in 1999 does clowning.

Trio Tsytko

23 March 2004

Circus Arena had as the first of the Danish circuses their season opening on 23 March in Copenhagen. As usual circus owner Benny Berdino was ringmaster. After a short musical intermezzo by the clown brothers Hector and Yann Rossyan the ring was filled with smoke and Suzanne Berdino (Benny Berdino’s daughter) presented 6 beautiful Arabian horses in an liberty act. After Suzanne her husband Karsten Berdino presented 6 black Friesian horses. Next act was the foot juggler Claudia Bremlov who amongst other tricks built an upturned pyramid consisting of boxes of different sizes on her foots. Julia (married to Jochen Krenzola) and her poodle that is a master of balancing followed her. After Julia the Rossyan clowns made their main entrée. First the classical entrée where the white faced clown want to shoot a bullet into the mouth of the august who shall climb a chair and spit the bullet on a plate. Then a musical entrée using amongst other things air madras pumps. They were followed on Krenzola Jr’s animal acts with gooses, parrots, cats, chickens, pigeons, a fox and an eagle. An act Johcen Krenzola has inherited from his father. After Krenzola the Danish clown Bonbon had a run-in. Last number before the interval was the four Skating Aratas. After the interval Flying Neves presented a fine trapeze act with a perfect triple (hand-to-hand ant not just as often seen hand to forearm). Then Bonbon and Tiina had a run-in in form of a canon act parody. Karsten Berdino followed them with 6 dromedaries. Then Krenzola was back with an act I never before have seen: Indian runner ducks in a liberty act presentation. Shortly before the opening day two of his duck were stolen. One came back. The other was replaced by at tiny little ordinary white duck. Next act was s short run-in by the Rossyan clowns juggling with their hats. They were followed by a speedy performance by the diabolo juggler Xelo. After Zelo Bonbon presented a brand new entrée: Circus under the water. Last act in the performance was Sonni Frankello with 3 African elephants. All in all a great performance that I am sure many Danes and foreign visitors will enjoy for the next 6 months.

Suzanne Berdino with Circus Arena’s Arabian horses (photo by courtesy of Christian Warrer/Circus Arena)

Circus Arena’s new entrance seen by night.

19 March 2004

Levade Noble Horse Gala to Aarhus. From 6^th to 22nd February 2004 Swedish circus producer Robert Bronett presented the horse show Levade in Copenhagen. From 15^th to 25^th April the show can be seen in Maarslet south of Arhus (the second largest city in Denmark). As in Copenhagen the performers are Miguel Barrionuevo, Spanish champion from 1995, together with twenty of his finest andalusian horses and ten his best riders, Showteam Kaiser from Germany presenting some of the skills which the medieval knights had to master if they wanted to take part in a tournament and French Gabi Dew riding the Courier.

17 March 2004

The 2004-performance in the Danish non-animal circus Circus Baldoni is called Circus from four Continents. Circusowner Baldoni alias René Marvin Monster and the circus princess Bina will present the program. Baldoni who is a ventriloquist is furthermore assisted by the “lion” Leonardo. From Africa come the 6 tumblers from Mombassa Boys. Los Gaucho's are cowboys from South America. Magician and fakir Ali Bonga (René Monster) will present a comical fakir act. From Latvia comes The Barbi Family, who also toured with Baldoni in 2002 and 2003 with a comical casceadeur act. 8-yar old Ernita performs with hula hop. The juggler Andrey presents his act on a monobike. Sergej takes care of run-ins and August present a clown entrée. Circus Baldoni will start its season on 3 April on Isle of Bornholm.

Mombassa Boys. Photo by courtesy of Circus Baldoni

Los Guacho’s. Photo by courtesy of Circus Baldoni

17 March 2004

Circus Benneweis will open their season no. 117 in Hillerod (30 miles north of Copenhagen) on 7 April 2004. The performance is called ”Startime 2004”. The clown Francesco appears with run-ins. He was also with Benneweis in 1995 and 1996 and became very popular. 13-year-old juggler Allan Sulc will present the act for which he was awarded a bronze clown in Monte Carlo this year. Amando Renz will present his Indian elephants. Mr. Dalmatin (Sergej Prostetsov) will present his three Dalmatians plus ten poodles and two Shetland ponies in an impressive routine. Duo Minasov (Victor and Elena Minasov) from Russia will present their Quick Change/Magical Transformation Act. Victor Minasov was born in 1974 in Moscow descending from a professional circus artist family. 1993-1999 he presented a bear and wolf training act together with his wife Elena. Since 2000 the couple has performed with their actual act. At circus Benneweis Victor Minasov will furthermore perform as the Balloon Man. Evgeni Shmarlovskiy (also called Chmarlowski) is working as magician using animals. He was in the Copenhagen Circus Building in 1989 and with the Benneweis tented show in 1997. The four acrobats from Spanish/Colombian high wire troupe Los Quiros present the act for which they was awarded a Golden Clown in Monte Carlo in 2002.  Maxim Popazov performs an original equilibristic act using different combinations of floor and handstand acrobatic elements. He is the fifth generation of the well-known Russian artiste family Popazoi. He has formerly been with Circus Krone in Munich in Germany and with Circus Knie in Switzerland. At the Monte Carlo Festival this year he was awarded Prix du Monte-Carlo Grand Hotel and Prix Stardust Circus International.

The clown Francesco 

11 March 2004

Springtime at Bellahoj. Today spring came to the Copenhagen Circus lot Bellahoj: Circus Arena’s Polish tent crew raised Arenas large red/yellow tent, which Arena took in use last year. Is will be Circus Arena’s season number 50. at the Danish roads.

9 March 2004

Small change in the program for Circus Arena. It was earlier announced that Italian Tonitos would perform at Circus Arena in flying trapeze, at trampoline and on tight wire. But Tonitos will not tour with Arena this season. They have been replaced by The flying Neves from Brazil. Flying Neves performed in Circus Krone’s February program in Munich. Also new with Arena are Italian Skating Arata’s (The Arata family – Mama Carmen and her 3 children Vittorio, Billy and Emilia). Apart from this the performers will as earlier announced be the diabolo juggler Xelo, the Danish clown Bonbon (repeat from 2002 and 2003), the musical Rossyan-clowns from France, Marina & Alex in tango trapeze, Suzanne Berdino with horses and dromedaries, Sonny Frankello’s elephants (repeat from 2002 and 2003), Krenzola JR. with goose, parrots, cats, chickens, pigeons and a fox and the antipodist Claudia Bremlov. Circus Arena will open season 2004 at Bellahoj in Copenhagen on 23 March with dress rehearsals on 19, 20 and 21 March.

The flying Neves. (Photo by courtesy of Circus Arena)

1 March 2004

Circus Mascot 2004. Circus owners Jess and Marianne Deleuran of the Danish dog and pony show Circus Mascot have now released their 2004-program. Performing artist will be Marianne Deleuran with her poodles, Jess Deleuran with his Shetland ponies, Daniel Deleuran on slack wire and on rola-rola, 6 year old Andreas Deleuran with a magic act, the clown Gulio (Ulmas Gulyamov, repeater from 2003), the juggler Ulmas, Tatjana (Tatiana Prymachenko, married to the clown Gulio, repeater from 2003) in tissue, Duo Bilovodska with an act called the living suitcase, Iga Cauca with handstand and Mykhaylo with an perch act. Opening day will be on April 1 in Roslev in the northern part of Jutland.

To the left: The clown Gulio. To the right: Daniel Deleuran on slack wire. Photos from Circus Masot 2003.

28 February 2004

Circus Kenny is the name of an indoor performance produced by Haddy Enoch of Circus Dannebrog for the Rosengaard Shopping Mall in Odense and shown from 16 to 21 February. The photographer Lise Kokholm visited the show and was impressed by the excellent performance. Ringmistress Agnete Louise Enoch presented well-known artist as the Dubsky-Rivel clowns, assisted by Dennie Enoch as white faces clown and Peter Harrison and his Hot Dogs as well as some young and very talented acrobats. Lise Kokholm mentioned especially a girl on tight wire.

The tight wire danser (photo: Lise Kokholm)

Peter Harrison and his Hot Dogs  (photo: Lise Kokholm)

The Dubsky-Rivel clowns  (photo: Lise Kokholm)

To the left:: Josef Dubsky, To the right:  Josétte Rivel (photo: Lise Kokholm)

26 February 2004

The 2004-performance in the Danish non-animal circus Circus Baldoni will be called Circus from four Continents and will present acrobats from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. Season opening is in April.

25 February 2004

Maja Aerius. On 16 February I mentioned that Maja of the Danish aerial cradle Duo Aerius had created a new act in tissue: ”Action-girl” for the EtCetera variety theatre in Bochum, Germany. Esben Aerius has sent me this picture from the act.

22 February 2004

Steckel’s to Circus Dannebrog. Agnete Louise Enoch, press agent and ringmistress of Circus Dannebrog has told me that the excellent Danish comical casceadeur act Steckel’s will be among the performers in the coming season. Freddi Steckel had great success in 2003 at the Swedish Circus Maximum first with Line Vittrup as partner and later in the season with Zora Nikodemova as partner. In Circus Dannebrog Freddi will once again get a new partner: Agnete Louise Enoch’s younger sister Isabella Enoch. Isabella is best known as trapeze artist but as a skilled acrobat she will for sure be a fine partner for Freddi Steckel.

16 February 2004

News from Duo Aerius. ”We are happy and doing very well”, trapeze artist Esben Aerius of the Danish aerial cradle Duo Aerius writes. Esben continues: ”We have been busy since August 2003. During the summer we created a new ”doll act” which you saw in a slightly shortened version in Copenhagen at the new-wave performance Circus Grand Prix. We presented the full version at the Circus and Variety festival in Dresden in September and were awarded the first prize. Directly from Dresden we went to Kiel in Germany to perform in Variety EtCetera and after that to Variety EtCetera in Lübeck. In January 2004 we presented our doll act at a casting with a jury Chamäleon Variety in Berlin. And once again we ware awarded the first prize. In January we visited a number of German variety theatres. Among those Variete-Palast in Speyer. They saw our act in the afternoon and we saw their present performance in the night. And the next day we signed a contract with them from 1 February 2005 to 30 July 2005. For the next 3 months we will be at the EtCetera variety theatre in Bochum in the performance called "Die Alte Helden". We are still presenting our doll act but Maja is furthermore presenting her new act in tissue. The theme is "Action-girl". The sound track says almost everything: 1) James Bond/Mission impossible, 2) Perry Mason-theme, 3) The Good, the bad and the ugly, 4) Pink Panther, 5) Space-patrouille Orion. The act is created especially for the performance "Die Alte Helden" which has the movie-world as theme. In the spring we will perform at a new variety theatre Scala Variete in Fritzlar. And as mentioned the first half year of 2005 we will be at Variete-Palast in Speyer.”

Esben and Maja Aerius with their doll act (photo taken at Circus Grand Prix 2003)

15 February 2004

The Danish magician Joachim Solberg will in April 2004 give lectures to magicians in ten different cities in Japan. It will be Joachim’s 5^th tour to Japan.

15 February 2004

The young Danish magicians Star Magic (Anders Hansen and Jan Hellesoe) are among the performers at a variety show at Hotel Vildbjerg in Jutland. The show can bee seen each Friday and Saturday until 27 March.

Star Magic

11 February 2004

The horse show Levade which I did mention on 6 February present a lot of beautiful horses but are mainly for ”horse-freaks”. The Danish Newspaper Politiken called the show an extremely fine horseshow with all sort of riders. However the reporter Monna Dithmer found that there was a bit too much folklore in the performance. In the Danish newspaper B.T. Birgit Grue mentioned that is was the horses which were the stars – the four-legged was better than the two-legged. Producer Robert Bronett hopes to be able to tour with the show to other cities in Europe.

7 February 2004

Benny Berdino of Danish Circus Arena buys the entire equipment from Austrian Circus Elfi Althoff-Jacobi. After some bad seasons the owner of Austrian Circus Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, 64 year old Adolf ”Adi” Lehner decided earlier this year to sell his circus: tent, wagons and all other equipment. For a while it has been known that Benny Berdino (owner of Circus Arena, the largest circus in Denmark) was interested in the equipment. And now the deal is a reality. The equipment will in near future be transported to Denmark. Benny has not acquired the right to the name Elfi Althoff-Jacobi. Adolf Lehner has worked in Circus Elfi Althoff-Jacobi since the circus was established in 1974 and has been owner of the show since 1993. The last couple of years have been terrible for circuses in Austria. Another circus Österreichischer National-Circus (owner Heinz Knapp) was declared bankruptcy some weeks ago and the tiny Circus Adriano (owner Emil Pfeiffer junior) has just been declared bankruptcy.

6 February 2004

Levade Noble Horse Gala is the name of a horseshow presented in Copenhagen from 6^th to 22nd February 2004 by Swedish circus producer Robert Bronett. He calls the show one of the worlds most spectacular horse shows. The show is presented in an 8-pole tent with the measures 100 x 45 meter. It contains a riding ring of 17 x 45 meter and seats 2,500 people. Robert Bronett promises the audience a journey through the centuries of the history of partnership between man and horse and tells that some of the finest horses and the best riders have come together to perform in this spectacular show were the combination of light, sound, artistry and beauty create a unique experience never seen anywhere else before. Among the performers are Miguel Barrionuevo, Spanish champion in 1995, together with twenty of his finest andalusian horses and ten his best riders. Together with 8 flamenco dancers and 6 flamenco musicians they present classical Spanish high school riding. Showteam Kaiser from Germany should be some of Europe’s best stunt riders. In this show they will demonstrate some of the skills which the medieval knights had to master if they wanted to take part in a tournament. French Gabi Dew will present the exciting discipline called Hungarian Post or St Petersburg Courier. An act first showed by the famous rider Andrew Ducrow in 1826. Gabi Dew toured with Circus Scott in Sweden in season 2000, 2001 and 2002. Further information on Levade Noble Horse Gala can be found at www.levade.nu.

The 8-pole tent used for the Levade Horse show is rented in Germany and is according to Robert Bronett the worlds largest. The latest statement is hardly true. To the left you can see a white circus tent used for stables.

4 February 2004

Circus Kenny is the name of an indoor performance produced by Haddy Enoch of Circus Dannebrog for the Rosengaard Shopping Mall in Odense and shown from 16 to 21 February. Haddy and Solvej Enoch’s oldest daughter Agnete Louise Enoch is ringmistres. Among the performers are Peter Harrison's Hot Dogs and the clowns Josef Dubsky and Josette Rivel (Josef’s wife) assisted by Dennie Enoch as white face clown. Dennie is son of Haddy and Solvej Enoch and is mostly known as an excellent bike acrobat. However he did in 2000 for some weeks fill in as white face clown in for Josef and Josette's youngest son Janos Dubsky (now performing in Hong Kong with Dubsky’s football dogs) who due to an accident wasn’t able to work. Josef and Josette decided to retire after season 2000 but have promised their close friends from the Enoch family to make a comeback for one week.

Josef Dubsky and Josette Rivel, also known as the Dusby-Rivel family clowns

3 February 2004

In the coming season German Amando Renz will present the Renz family’s Indian elephants in Circus Benneweis .The Renz family performed in 1980 and 1982 with their 3 Indian elephants in Danish Circus Dannebrog. At that time Amado’s father Franz presented the act. It will be first time since circus owner Diana Benneweis in 1995 sold Circus Benneweis’ Indian elephants Thai, India and Ceylon we can meet Indian elephants in the Benneweis ring. Most of the elephants nowadays seen in Europe are African.

2 February 2004

International Clown Festival 2004. For this years festival producer Benny Schumann has engaged The Thuranos with their comical tight wire act (including 94 year old Konrad Thur who in 1999 received the Charlie Rivel Price) and Toto Chabri & Co. (Toto Chabri was awarded the Charlie Rivel Price in 2001). Danish actor and comedian Soren Ostergaard will be guest artist on 9, 10, 11 and 15 August. From Japan comes the electric boogie master Koichiro Mori. Furthermore you can meet Patricia Schumann and Bakken’s Pierrot. At the gala performance 8 August at 11 a number of additional international clowns will participate.  The festival will take place at the amusement part Bakken north of Copenhagen from 5 to 15 August.

27 January 2004

The Casselly family. The contortionist Merrylu Casselly and Alexia and René Casselly with their horses and elephants has signed a contract for the seasons 2004 and 2005 with Danish circus owner and producer Benny Berdino. In 2004 they will tour with Circus Skratt in Sweden (produced by Benny Berdino for the Swedish circusowner Bo Rönnberg) and from mid June to mid August they will perform at the free attraction circus in the Danish amusement park Bonbonland (also this circus performance is produced by Benny Berdino). In 2005 the Casselly’s will tour with Circus Arena in Denmark. René Casselly was with Circus Arena in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1997. The last couple of years Alexia and René Casselly have toured with German Circus Busch-Roland. However they left Busch-Roland on 9 October 2003 and went to German Circus Paul Busch after a quarrel with members of the Wolf family working for Circus Busch-Roland.

2 of the elephants owned by Alexia and René Cassellys at Circus Busch-Roland (photo from 2001)

26 January 2004

Freddy Anthony to Danish holiday resort centre Lalandia. From 25 June to 25 August the musical entertainer Freddy Antony together with the Danish magician Niels Plys will present 6 shows a week at the Danish holiday resort centre Lalandia. In 2003 Freddy Anthony toured with Circus Dannebrog and in 2000 with Circus Arli. In 1978, 1979 and 1980 he worked in Denmark for Circus M. Schumann.

25 January 2004

Danish artists at German Variety Theatres. From 6 February to 25 April you can meet the Danish arial craddle duo Duo Aerius at the Et Cetera variety theatre in Bochum. The female partner Maja will also perform in tissue. Further information about Et Cetera can be found at www.variete-et-cetera.de.  At Starclub in Kassel you can meet the Danish gentleman thief Kenny Quinn and his partner Joan. You can find further information about Starclub at www.starclub.de.

24 January 2004

The collections at the Circus Museum at Hvidovre, Copenhagen handed over to the Hvidovre municipality. A reception on 23 January marked the transfer of the collections at the Circus Museum at Hvidovre to the local municipality, which have promised to pay the cost for running the museum. The museum has the largest circus collection in the Nordic Countries.

The deed of transfer is presented to Ms. Britta Christensen, lord mayor of Hvidovre, by Jens Frobenius (photo: Lise Kokholm)

Among the guests at the reception was the reporter Jorgen Siegumfeldt and former ringmistriss in Circus Benneweis Nelly Jane Benneweis (known as lady of the ring)

23 January 2004 

The (un)human doll is the name of a special exhibition of ventriloquist dolls at the Circus Museum at Hvidovre, Copenhagen. The special exhibition will open on 29 January and can bee seen for the rest of the year.

22. January 2004

Greeting from Janos Dubsky. ”Everything is well here in China – is it Chinese new year tomorrow, the year of the monkey,” writes Danish artist Janos Dubsky who for the time being is performing with Dubsky’s football dogs at The Great Moscow Circus in Hong Kong. Janos further tells that the circus is doing splendid business and that the audience loves the show. Dubsky’s football dogs are presented as ”the most hilarious soccer match you'll ever see, 2 teams, 2 goalkeepers, lots of soccer balls and side splitting fun. The Dubsky's present a trained dog act that will prove to be a Hong Kong favourite”. Australian producer Michael Edgley produces the Great Moscow Circus. Opening day was in Hong Kong 12 December 2003 and the season will close on 6 June 2004. Performance is given in a 4-pole tent seating 2,000 people. Further information can be found at www.moscowcircus.com.hk

22 January 2004

Gold-, silver and bronze clowns. At the 28^th international circus festival in Monte Carlo from 15 to 22 January the Golden Clown was awarded to La Troupe acrobatique from Beijing, to The Flying Tabares (flying trapeze) and Fratelli Errani (risley act). A Silver Clown was awarded to the Kovgar Troupe (teeterboard), Florian Richter (acrobat on horseback), Wallenda-truppen (high wire) and Stefano Nones Orfei (tigers). A Bronze Clown was given to the ventriloquist Willer Nicolodi (touring with Danish Circus Benneweis in 2002), the acrobats Les Golden Power, the young juggler Alan Sulc (will tour with Danish Circus Benneweis in 2004) and the Sea World acrobat troupe (toured with Swedish Circus Maximum in 2003). Alan Sulc was also awarded the COUPE DE S.A.S. LA PRINCESSE ANTOINETTE and PRIX MONTE-CARLO TELEVISION. In 2002 he won a gold medal at the European Youth Circus Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Bronze clown awarded juggler Allan Sulc will perform with Circus Benneweis in 2004. Photo taken by Thorbjorn K. Flo in Circus Merano in Norway in 2003

20 January 2004

New wave circus from Poland to visit Denmark. From 27 to 29 February Circus Ocelot from Poland will visit Denmark. Circus Ocelot is called the circus of dreams. There are 30 performers and live music at the stage. Bogdan Zajak who for many years worked for Cirque Du Soleil established circus Ocelot.

16 January 2004

Circus Mascot 2004. Circus owners Jess and Marianne Deleuran of the Danish dog and pony show Circus Mascot will have new and better seating facilities for their audience in 2004 with back on all benches. Performing artist in the 2004 program will be Marianne Deleuran with her poodles, Jess Deleuran with his Shetland ponies, Daniel Deleuran on slack wire, the clown Gulio (repeater from 2003) and the juggler Ulmas. Names of a couple of additional artists have not yet been released. Opening day will be on April 1 in Roslev in the northern part of Jutland. 

The clown Gulio (photo taken in Circus Mascot 2003)

15 January 2004

The Danish magician Kim Kenneth will this season tour with Circus Billy Smart in United Kingdom. The tour will start on 15 February and season closing is scheduled for 28 November. In 1999 Kim Kenneth toured in UK with Circus Tony Hopkins. Tony Hopkins is also the owner of Circus Billy Smart. Last season Kim Kenneth toured with Circus Elfi Althoff-Jacobi in Austria.

15. January 2004

Joe Labero to Oslo. Swedish star magician Joe Labero’s show Expect the Unexpected could be seen in the Copenhagen Circus Building in November and December 2003. In near future the show can bee seen at the Edderkoppen Theatre in Oslo, Norway.

11 January 2004

Bjorn Heimann passed away. The Danish magician Bjorn Heimann has passed away, 79 years of age. Apart from being a magician (well known for his close-up magic) Bjorn Heiman was a chef.

9 January 2004

Circus Arena has published its 2004 programme. Opening day will be on 23 March at Bellahoj in Copenhagen. Dress rehearsals on 19, 20 and 21 March. The performers are the juggler Xelo, the Danish clown Bonbon (repeat from 2002 and 2003), the musical Rossyan-clowns from France, Marina & Alex in tango trapeze, Suzanne Berdino with horses and dromedaries, Sonny Frankello’s elephants (repeat from 2002 and 2003), Tonitos in flying trapeze, Krenzola JR. with goose, parrots, cats, chickens, pigeons and a fox and the antipodist Claudia Bremlov.

The brothers Yann and Hector Rossyan will be among the performers at Circus Arena in 2004. (Photo taken in Swedish Circus Maximum in 2003)

As previous years Circus Arena will tour with an indoor performance a couple of weeks in January and February. The indoor tour ends up at the Faeroe Islands. Among the performers are Sebastian’s with contortion and Stephan Curaudeau on BMX-bike. Two members from the Arli family of Circus Arli will take part of the performance: Alexander Arli with ladder balance and his father and mother Martin and Bettina Arli as the clowns Martino & Co. In addition Italian reprise clown Jimmy Folco can be seen and at the Faeroe Islands even the Danish clown Bonbon will be among the performers. Claudia will present an antipode act and a hula-hoop act. In the southern part of Denmark circus owner Benny Berdino's daughter Suzanne Berdino will present horses and dromedaries. At the Faeroe Islands Samson, alias Luka Odhiambo, will replace her with his African Power-show.

2 January 2004

Exhibition of ventriloquist's dolls. By the end of January the Circusmuseum at Hvidovre, Copenhagen will open a special exhibition with ventriloquist's dolls. As part of the opening the Danish ventriloquist Preben Palsgaard will give performances at the museum on 1 February 2004.

 1 January 2004

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1 January 2004

At his webpage www.schumann.dk Benny Schumann tells that more than 90,000 people in 2003 saw his performances ”Hey Clown!" (94 performances), Schumann`s Mini Circus (35 performances) or Benny Schumann and Ludvika Young Star Circus (3 performances). In addition more than 20,000 saw the performances at the International Clown Festival at Bakken north of Copenhagen. Benny is both performer and artistically director of the said festival. Benny is working on a film called Benny Schumann Circus Story, an entertaining video/ DVD, including the circus history of Benny Schumann, the circus ponies and amusing ventriloquist's dolls. The video/dvd should be ready for sale in November 2004.

 Benny Schumann (photo Benny Schumann)

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