David Larible

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The Italian clown David Larible as "Maestro Mortale".

David Larible (born June 23, 1957 in Verona ) is an Italian clown .

Life

family

The Larible family is originally from France . David Larible looks back on six generations of artists . There are family ties with numerous other European circus families. His great-grandfather Pierre Larible was an acrobat and dancer , his grandfather a clown. Laribel's father is the former trapeze artist and juggler Eugenio Larible, who still teaches at the Verona Circus School. The mother Lucina Casartelli (1931–2003) was a circus child and artist like her husband.

David Larible has three sisters: Eliana Paul, married to Bernhard Paul , Cinzia Larible-Gerard and the trapeze artist Vivien, married to Noè España from the Icarian group Flying Españas . Larible has been married to the (then still active) Mexican trapeze artist America Olvera Jimenez since 1982 . The couple have two children - their daughter Shirley (* 1989) and their son David Pierre (* 1997). They also want to be artists. Shirley performs at Roncalli's.

Childhood and youth

Larible grew up in Verona and in various circuses. In addition to his native Italian , David Larible is fluent in French , Spanish , Portuguese , English and German .

He likes to tell in interviews that when he was eight he decided to become a clown. His father was not very happy about it, he had wished that his son would become a trapeze artist like him. But in the end he would have agreed and would have encouraged the son as much as he asked.

Career

Larible with the Circus Roncalli (Vienna 2009)

In his childhood David Larible was taught acrobatics and juggling by his father Eugenio. In 1968 he began training at the Conservatory of Music in Verona. He made his first official appearance in the ring in 1973 in his uncle's Circus Medrano, where he appeared with his family in a roller-skating act.

Engagements in the Swiss Circus Nock and the French Circus Bouglione followed in the 1970s . When Laribel's parents were involved in Circus Krone in the early 1980s , the then circus director Frieda Sembach-Krone asked him to stand in for a clown. He took the chance and continued to expand the initially small number.

Further engagements followed. After a three-year stint at the Italian Circus Cesar Togni, Larible returned to the Circus Krone in Munich , where he stayed until 1989. During this period, ZDF produced the television series Circus - animals, clowns and acrobats with him (presented by Freddy Quinn, among others ). He was seen a few times as part of the stars in the ring . In the 1980s he began to include the audience in his numbers - this has remained one of his trademarks to this day.

In 1989 Larible left Germany and came to the largest and probably most famous circus in the USA - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus , via guest appearances in England and Mexico . From 1993 to 2005 he had a permanent job there and developed into the main attraction. The time in the USA was marked by hard work - Larible says he was not absent a day, even when he was sick he performed. On the other hand, during these years he developed other trademarks, invented new numbers and perfected his performance. Together with the Ringling owner Kenneth Feld, Larible Barnum's Kaleidoscape , a new circus concept for the USA, developed.

Larible had a brief appearance in Seinfeld (episode The Gymnast ) in 1994, as well as in the film Ocean's Eleven from 2001. In 2005 Larible returned to Europe. He has been involved in Circus Roncalli since 2006 , which he finished at the end of the 2012 season to travel all over the world with a solo program.

Legal proceedings

His involvement with the World Christmas Circus in Stuttgart in December 2016 was terminated at short notice after allegations of sexual acts with minors were raised against him in Switzerland. Larible was convicted in August 2017 in the first instance of " sexual acts with a child ". The Zurich District Court found him guilty of giving a 14-year-old girl three kisses with tongue in his hotel room in Zurich, of stroking her back and waist and kissing her décolleté . In addition to a conditional fine , Larible was expelled from the country for 5 years. He denied the allegations and announced an appeal against the verdict. In August 2018, Larible withdrew most of the appeal, it only concerns the expulsion from the country and the cost consequences, but no longer the question of guilt.

Services

Larible with the Circus Roncalli (Vienna 2009)

David Larible appears as the classic " stupid August ". Due to his various educational backgrounds, he has a repertoire as a dancer, singer, musician and juggler, and he was also inspired by classical music , opera and ballet . One of his specialties is to make direct contact with the audience and to involve the audience in his actions. Larible names Charlie Chaplin , Charlie Rivel and Grock as role models, and he also uses music composed by Chaplin in his performances.

Honourings and prices

literature

  • Dirk Kuik: The new star of Circus Roncalli. In: Society of Circus Friends e. V. (Ed.): Circus-Zeitung No. 6/2006, p. 22f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traumberuf clown overblog, taken over by Nordwestradio Journal , December 13, 2012, accessed September 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ World Christmas Circus in Stuttgart without David Larible - Serious allegations against the clown. SWR television website , November 25, 2016.
  3. ↑ Clown is said to have attacked 14-year-olds. In: Tages-Anzeiger , November 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Star clown Larible will not go to court again , NZZ.ch, August 18, 2018
  5. ↑ Stefan Hohler: Davide Larible found guilty. In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch , August 15, 2017.
  6. ^ Clown Larible withdraws appeal. In: Tages-Anzeiger , August 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ David Larible, Star of Barnum's Kaleidoscape (SM), First Recipient Of International Arts Award in China November 8, 1999, PR News , accessed November 28, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Larible, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clown
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona