Johannes Galli (actor)

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Johannes J. Galli (* 1952 in Erbach (Rheingau) ) is a German clown , actor , director , entrepreneur , musician , filmmaker , body language trainer and author .

Live and act

Galli studied German , history and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau . He completed his studies with a master's degree and then appeared as a clown, initially in kindergartens and as a street artist . In the 1980s he became known as the clown Galli with the clown play Amanda . In 1984 he founded the "Institute for Original Theater Art" in Freiburg, which had its first venue from 1986 to 1989 in the former Peter and Paul Chapel (Freiburg-Sankt Georgen) and then remained in Freiburg until 2014 as the Galli Theater with its own stage address. Galli then moved to Hessen, since then he has been based in the Galli Theater Wiesbaden .

More Galli Theaters followed in Germany, China and the United States. In 1990 he published his first book Clown - The Lust for Failure . In 1991 the play The 68er Spätlese was premiered in the Freiburg Galli Theater . Galli processes autobiographical elements with contemporary history from the 1968 student movement. The play is next to men's sales , his marriage trilogy and his fairy tale musicals Gallis most successful theater piece.

Johannes J. Galli developed the so-called " Galli Method ", which makes spontaneous play the basis of conflict resolution and personal growth, his own type model of seven cellar children and founded his own form of corporate theater . The Galli Group, which includes several theaters in Germany and abroad, also has a publishing house that sells products created by Galli. In 2000, the television documentary series " Lifelines " reported on the life of Johannes J. Galli.

From 2008 to 2012 Galli lived and worked in New York. He has lived and worked in Wiesbaden since 2012. At the age of 60, Galli suffered from walking difficulties and complete blindness as a result of kidney failure and progressive diabetes . Since then, working as a stage actor has not been so easy for him, but since then he has experienced a very productive literary creative phase and continues to direct films and plays.

Publications (selection)

  • Clown: The desire to fail . 5th edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 978-3-926032-02-7 .
  • The Seven Cellar Children - The Discovery of the Source of Power (Volume One) . 3. Edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-943072-57-0 .
  • Body language and communication . 4th edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-926032-02-7 .
  • Relieve fairy tales with ease . 1st edition. Galli Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-943072-63-1 .
  • Sun moon . Novel. 1st edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-934861-53-4 .
  • Shadow star - fulfilled love becomes insatiable, novel, 1st edition, Galli Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-934861-57-2 .
  • The love school - Can you learn to love ?, Roman, 1. Edition, Galli Verlag Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-940722-11-9 .
  • JoJo and his basement children , novel, 1st edition, Galli Verlag, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-945628-34-8 .
  • Classical Poems with Music, Vol. 2 . 1st edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-943072-60-0 .
  • Mind leaps beyond the others (Seventh Volume) . 1st edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2003, ISBN 978-3-943072-79-2 .
  • Animals are only humans too - Stories to relax the mind, 1st edition, Galli Verlag Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-945628-07-2 .
  • Papagalli - A loser conquers the world, Part 6, 1st edition, Galli Verlag Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-96300-053-9 .
  • Fairy tale songs . Johannes Galli & Michael Summ, 2nd edition. Galli Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-943044-18-8 .
  • Cinderella - fairy tale songs z. Listen u. Sing along, Johannes Galli & Michael Summ, 1st edition, Galli Verlag 2018, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-96300-018-8 .
  • The seven basement children . Solo theater with Johannes Galli at the Galli Theater Freiburg 2009. Semi professional. Galli Verlag, Wiesbaden, ISBN 978-3-943072-37-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The clown Johannes Galli. Or: the desire to fail. Film by Constanze Hegetusch, BR 2000
personal data
SURNAME Galli, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galli, Johannes J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, clown, actor, director, musician, trainer, coach, philosopher and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Rheingau)