Adolf Behrend

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Adolf Behrend (1910, after a crash)

Adolf Behrend (born September 30, 1869 in Königsberg , † December 10, 1946 in Berlin ; pseudonym Salerno ) was a German artist and aviation pioneer .

Life

After graduating from school, Adolf Behrend completed an apprenticeship in the carpenter's workshop , in which his father also worked, but soon began a career as a juggler and performed in variety theaters such as the Berlin Wintergarten . Under the stage name Salerno , he and Kara (actually Michael Steiner , 1867–1939) developed the gentleman juggling style , in which the artist in a tuxedo juggles with common household items. He introduced new props like the Salerno ring and experimented with lighting effects. For the first time he juggled illuminated clubs , which changed their color in flight, on a darkened stage. Salerno was an influential and internationally successful vaudeville artist in the last decade of the 19th and into the 1930s.

Adolf Behrend had a short career as one of the first German aviators. On May 1, 1910, he acquired license number 7 at the Johannisthal airfield. Three days earlier, he had won the second Lanz Prize of the Air , endowed with 7,000 marks . He flew a Schultze-Herfort monoplane from Deutsche Flugmaschinenbau GmbH in Berlin-Rummelsburg . After several serious accidents, Behrend concentrated again on his work as a variety artist.

Eleven months after his French wife Louise died in 1946, completely penniless, he was buried in the Pankow III cemetery. His friend King Repp paid the costs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Cain: Salerno: The Inventive Gentleman Juggler on the website of the International Jugglers' Association , March 5, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2017 (English)
  2. ^ Francisco Alvarez: Juggling - its history and greatest performers , Part 2: The Formative Years
  3. ^ Alan Howard: The Salerno Ring (PDF; 997 kB). In: Juggle 11 (3), 2009, pp. 16-17 (English)
  4. ↑ Biographical information on www.juggling.org (English)
  5. ↑ Stars of Vaudeville # 365: Salerno
  6. ↑ List of pilots 1909-1914 with German aircraft license (PDF; 71 kB)
  7. ↑ Sonja Steiner-Welz: Schütte-Lanz aircraft from Mannheim . Volume 1: Die Luftschiffe , Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag eK, Mannheim 2006, p. 72 . ISBN 3-936041-94-6
  8. ↑ Hagen Büchner, Gabi Keast: 100 years of King Repp . In: Kaskade 50, No. 2/1998, p. 31 f. ( PDF ; 11.62 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Behrend, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salerno (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1946
Place of death Berlin