Bernhard Paul

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Bernhard Paul (r.) And David Larible , 2009

Bernhard Paul (born May 20, 1947 in Lilienfeld ) is an Austrian circus director , director , clown and co-founder of Circus Roncalli .

Life

Bernhard Paul as "Zippo" (1984)
Bernhard Paul in the ring (2017)
Bernhard Paul (2017)

Bernhard Paul is the great-grandson of Josef Weyl , who was the lyricist of Johann Strauss (including the Danube Waltz, Wine, Woman and Singing ). Paul was born in 1947 to a family of craftsmen and grew up in Wilhelmsburg in Lower Austria . After elementary and secondary school , he began to study civil engineering with the aim of joining the construction company of a childless uncle . Since his talents were not in this subject, he switched to the Higher Graphic Federal Teaching and Research Institute (also known as "Graphic") in Vienna . His classmates were friends Josef Bramer , Manfred Deix and Gottfried Helnwein .

In 1966 Paul briefly became a member of Scientology , from which he later distanced himself; he was repeatedly reproached for this. He became art director of the Austrian news magazine profil and then worked for an international advertising agency.

Circus Roncalli

Paul wanted to go to the circus as a little boy. After several successful years in his career, he realized his dream in 1975 and founded the Circus Roncalli together with André Heller . Under the program title The greatest poetry in the universe - Circus as a total work of art , they developed a new type of circus program. But after just a few weeks, Heller and Paul were arguing about stage sets and tamer numbers . Eventually Heller left the joint company and took 42 artists with him. Paul improvised with students and substitute artists. The last guest performance with a reduced program took place at the Wiener Festwochen in 1977, where the Kelly Family also appeared. Heller only gave up the circus project after a lawsuit lasting several years and left Paul with high debts.

Paul did not give up and from 1978 prepared a new founding of the circus in Cologne's Südstadt . The Swiss cabaret artist Emil Steinberger , who had been a guest at Circus Knie for nine months in 1977 , supported Paul with a loan and helped him direct. After the premiere on June 4, 1980 in Cologne, he himself often appeared in the arena and embodied the clown figure of stupid August as "Zippo". After a rapprochement in which Heller "[had] the size to admit his guilt", there was again a collaboration in 1992 with the reopening of the Berlin Variety Theater Wintergarten .

watch TV

In cooperation with Bernhard Paul and the artists of the Circus Roncalli developed in the years 1986/87, the six-part ARD television series Roncalli   with Günther Maria Halmer in the title role as a circus director Bruno Roncalli. Bernhard Paul was one of the jurors in the first season of the Austrian television series and talent show The Big Chance .

family

Since 1990 he has been married to the artist Eliana Larible, who comes from an Italian circus dynasty. He and her have three children who first appeared together in 2013 as the roller skating acrobats “Les Pauls” on the Time is Honey touring program . Adrian plays guitar in the circus orchestra, Vivian is studying marketing and market research as a correspondence course, Lili shows contortion acrobatics as a so-called "snake woman". All the children later want to take over the circus from their father and run it together. Eliana's brother David Larible appears repeatedly at Circus Roncalli.

As long as he is not out and about in the circus wagon with his family, Paul lives in Cologne, Mallorca and Vienna (here in one of Otto Wagner's Viennese row houses at the Naschmarkt ).

Collections

Paul owns one of the largest collections of circus objects in Europe in halls in Cologne. This includes many old costumes, thousands of books about the circus, posters, and many other original exhibits. He also collects furniture and furnishings from historic restaurants and coffeehouses. Its collections include:

  • Circus and variety collection
  • Poster collection with more than 10,000 lithographs
  • Collection of everyday culture from the turn of the century
  • 40 complete shops with goods and facades (from corner shops to hairdressers)
  • old showman shops from merry-go-rounds to ship swings
  • old carriages, vending cars and much more

Projects

Residential house, storage facility and winter quarters in Cologne-Mülheim (2009)
  • since 1975: clown with various partners
  • Founding of the Wintergarten-Varieté Berlin (with André Heller) 1992
  • Wiener Stadthalle: Circus show "Artists, animals and attractions" (program and direction)
  • Freie Volksbühne Berlin : Clowns I (two-hour program)
  • Alte Oper Frankfurt: Varieté Roncalli
  • Ronacher Vienna: Clowns II (two-hour program)
  • Program and direction work for the two variety theaters "Friedrichsbau" in Stuttgart and Wintergarten in Berlin
  • Oper Frankfurt: "Midsummer Night's Dream"
  • Founding and sole operator of Roncalli's Apollo Varieté in Düsseldorf (first new construction of a variety theater after the Second World War )
  • "The Magic Flute" Mozart's opera (co-director in collaboration with George Tabori)
  • 1998 Participation in the project “Les Beaux Arts” bronze flacon created by various artists: Bruno Bruni, Salvatore Dali, Paul Wunderlich, Paul Fuchs, Ellen Jones, Bernhard Paul
  • 1999 Director of the Oberhausen State Garden Show 1999 (OLGA for short)
  • Production of “Classic meets Circus”, a new series of events in the Dortmund Concert Hall, in the Gasteig in Munich and on tour through the leading concert halls in Germany
  • “Stars of the Variety”, Weltstadtvarieté in cooperation with Tigerplast in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus
  • "Höhner Rock'n Roncalli Show" since 2000 in Cologne and on tour
  • "Roncalli & The Kelly Family"
  • "Panem & Circenses" - Germany's first dinner spectacle in the mirror tent (1990 to 1992) and again from 2000
  • "Roncalli's Christmas Circus" in the Tempodrom Berlin
  • since 2000 historical Christmas market on the Rathausmarkt in Hamburg
  • Hall show 2005 to kick off the anniversary year in the Kölnarena

honors and awards

  see. Biography B. Paul 

Movies

  • Dreams of a clown - circus director Bernhard Paul. Documentary film, Austria, 2009, 41:10 min., Script and direction: Ernst A. Grandits , production: ORF , 3sat , broadcast: December 25, 2009 on 3sat, synopsis by ARD .
  • Roncalli. Dream world circus. Conversation with video recordings, Germany, 2014, 57:45 min., Book: Monika Sax, moderation: Jo Hiller , production: WDR , SWR , BR-alpha , editing: Planet Wissen , first broadcast: February 3, 2014 on WDR, Announcement and online video from WDR.
  • Roncalli - The dream of the circus. Documentary, Germany, 2014, 43:40 min., Script and director: Martin Uhrmeister, production: Faction! TV, WDR , first broadcast: June 26, 2015, 8:15 p.m. on WDR television , series: Doku am Freitag , summary by WDR.

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Paul  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inga Griese: "He who is not crazy is not normal". In: Die Welt , May 18, 2001.
  2. ↑ Roncalli boss no longer wants to live in Germany. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , May 25, 1993: "" Like the great role models Rolling Stones and Beatles , we soaked up everything new like a sponge: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Buddha, gurus, meditation, us have tried everything. " Paul's contacts with the Scientologist sect also fell during this time. He calls his experiences with the sect 27 years ago "bland". Since then, Paul has distanced himself from Scientologists. The fact that this youthful sin is carried back to him to this day, however, annoys him. ” Quotation document.
  3. ↑ NN : short message. In: Der Spiegel , March 19, 1990, No. 12.
  4. ↑ Frank Nordhausen , Liane von Billerbeck : Scientology: How the cult company wants to conquer the world. Chr. Links Verlag , Berlin 2008, pp. 85f., At Google Books . First edition: 1993, ISBN 978-3-86153-051-0 , edition 2011, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag: ISBN 978-3-596-19009-6 .
  5. ↑ a b Bernhard Paul. Biography. In: roncalli.de .
  6. ↑ May 18, 1976 - Circus Roncalli starts in Bonn. In: WDR 2 , as of May 18, 2016.
  7. ^ A b Daniel Kastner: Manic manager of the arena. Circus Roncalli - a legend celebrates its anniversary. In: willmy Magazin , April 2016, No. 9.
  8. ^ A b Martin Wein : Interview with Roncalli boss Bernhard Paul: "I had studied to be a circus director". In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , May 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ Sophie Crocoll: "I have mer 'thought: I moch des now amol." In: Bilanz , December 2015, pp. 38–45, (PDF; 6.8 MB).
  10. ↑ Binci Heeb: Emil and Niccel Steinberger in an exclusive interview. In: barfi.ch , September 30, 2017.
  11. ↑ Bernhard Paul. Biography • chap. TV film & theater. In: roncalli.de .
  12. ↑ Roncalli. In: fernsehserien.de .
  13. ^ Johanna Heinz: Circus Roncalli. The director's children appear together for the first time. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , July 4, 2013.
  14. ↑ Christian Lingen: The daughters of the circus boss. In: Rheinische Post , April 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. In: State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , (PDF; 25 pp., 90 kB), accessed on March 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Paul, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian circus director, director and clown
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lilienfeld , Austria