Jenny Jaeger

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Jenny Jaeger (born May 4, 1909 in Odessa ; † January 13, 1986 in Düsseldorf ) was a Russian juggler .

life and career

As the daughter of the artist couple Willy Jaeger and Nadeschda Jaeger (née Kulewskaja), she entered the circus arenas of Russia at the age of five. Her father Willy was also a juggler and her teacher and mother Nadezhda a trapeze artist.

She began her career as a juggler in 1918, initially with 8, then 9 balls. In 1924 she made her debut in Circus Salamonski with 10 balls. She was called "the female Rastelli", although Enrico Rastelli never showed this trick on stage. Discovered by Paul Spadoni in the Moscow State Circus , she was engaged at the Berlin “ Scala ”. After that she worked in Europe. Wintergarten-Varieté Berlin, Viktoria-Theater London, Palace-Theater Blackpool, Cirque d'Hiver and Cirque Medrano in Paris, Circus Schumann Copenhagen, Tuschinsky-Theater Amsterdam, Ronacher-Varieté Vienna, Apollo-Theater and Kristall-Palast in Düsseldorf were stops their engagements. She developed juggling with balls, hoops and clubs and her balancing with large bowls required fivefold concentration. The perfection that she presented with apparent ease made her a world number.

Jaeger was mentioned as one of the best jugglers working individually.

“There is a delicate, graceful person on stage, the juggler Jenny Jaeger! And you experience a small miracle: this pretty young woman starts to play with balls, hoops and clubs that after a few minutes you are amazed. One instinctively looks for comparisons and does not find them. All of this is so very different from what you are used to. A female shows us tricks that we can only measure in this perfection by remembering the greatest of this genre. The balance of the golden shimmering bowls on straight and curved bars, five at the same time, is great. This is unprecedented, an artistic pleasure of the highest perfection. "

- Paul Guntermann : Das Organ , Volume 7 / Number 1, January 15, 1952. Page 25

She spent most of the Second World War in Groß Köris with the artist family Kremo. In the last performance in the winter garden , which was completely destroyed by a bombing on June 21, 1944, she lost all of her props and costumes. Only after the war did she return to Europe. She ended her artist career in the late 1950s.

Honors

  • 1951: Gold medal from Circus Mijares-Scheiber, Sweden
  • Induction into the Juggling Hall of Fame

literature

  • Juggler's World , Vol. 40 no.2 Summer 1988, 4th cover page
  • Das Organ, Volume 7 / Number 1 from January 15, 1952, page 25
  • Karl-Heinz Ziethen - The art of juggling , page 23, 48, 49, fig. 114, Henschelverlag Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-362-00123-8
  • Karl-Heinz Ziethen - "Juggling" The Art and its Artists , page 272, Verlag Rausch & Lüft, Berlin, ISBN 3-9801140-1-5
  • Karl-Heinz Ziethen - The art of juggling through the ages , page 23, Verlag Rausch & Lüft, Berlin
  • edition aragon - Juggling , page 35, edition aragon, Moers, ISBN 3-924690-11-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Ziethen: "Jenny jaeger - 10 balls". In: "Juggling" The Art and its Artists., Page 272, Verlag Rausch & Lüft Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-9801140-1-5
  2. ↑ William Küßhauer: "Berlin conservatory." In: "Artist World". 10th year. Number 11/12, June 20, 1944, pages 9 and 29, Verlag Rudolf Haufe Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Jaeger, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian juggler
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1986
Place of death Dusseldorf