Otelli Circus

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Tent of the Otelli Circus in Otelfingen ,
25th anniversary in 2010
Ladder running from the 2015 Otelli Circus program

The Otelli Circus is a Swiss youth circus in Otelfingen .

history

The Otelli Circus has existed in Otelfingen ( Canton of Zurich , Switzerland ) since 1986 and is directed by the founders Fritz Zollinger and Madeleine Häfele. «Otelli» is a fantasy name made up of: OTELfingen and the endings of (well-known) circuses such as ConeLLI , RoncaLLI , ZoLLI. All adults involved (especially all parents of the children) work on a voluntary basis. The artists are between six and sixteen years old and remain loyal to the circus for over ten years. In the first 32 years, 307 children from the village and the surrounding area as far as Zurich and the canton of Aargau took part.

Operation today

The children (including those with disabilities) rehearse once or twice a week. Almost all disciplines are taught to them by Fritz Zollinger, who has been running his own one-man Zolli circus since 1974 .

The seven annual performances - accompanied by a mini orchestra - take place in September in the smallest circus tent in Switzerland (for 120 people, diameter 10 m, height 4.5 m, ring with 4 m diameter).

Program and disciplines

The Otelli Circus has been showing "classic circus " every year since the beginning . H. Acrobats , clowns and animals. Besides the usual circus acts to Otelli has made a name with a variety of air numbers , springboard , "Death Head" slack rope , ladder running and ventriloquism . Every year there are new mottos, which u. a. are presented with the clowns in sketch-like scenes. Pigs, goats, sheep, giant snakes, chickens, Muneli , ponies and dogs are used on trained animals .

particularities

Up to professional circles, Otelli has made a name for himself with the only ever trained wild boar (2000-2006), his 2015 circusical “Das gaht nöd: Das git's nöd” (music by Hannes Diggelmann), with his turning ring (from 2016), like her No other circus in Switzerland owns it, with its interreligious service (Catholic, Protestant and Hindu), which was held in a circus for the first time in 2015, and with an annually very detailed program booklet that - also unique in Switzerland - does not contain any advertisements . The place in front of the practice room of the Circus Otelli is called Circus-Otelli-Platz .

See also

Web links

Commons : Circus Otelli  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us - History about the Otelli. At otelli.ch, accessed on February 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ Portraits of our artists on otelli.ch, accessed on February 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Infected with the circus virus since childhood. In: Aargauer Zeitung , October 30, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ringmaster is now an honorary citizen. In: Zürcher Unterländer, September 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Animals in the Otelli Circus on otelli.ch, accessed on February 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Our wild boar Tinga - a wild animal. At otelli.ch, accessed on February 28, 2017.
  7. ↑ The wild boar is the heraldic animal of Otelfingen .
  8. ↑ Circusical - A mixture of musical and circus for the 30th anniversary. Club of Circus, Variété and Artist Friends in Switzerland, 23 October 2015.
  9. ↑ youth circus Otelli with rotary Manege Club of circus, vaudeville and artists friends of Switzerland, September 26, 2016th
  10. ↑ Zirkus-Otelli-Platz , page giswiki.hsr.ch of the Rapperswil University of Applied Sciences

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