Béla Kremo

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Béla José Kremo (* 1911 in Berlin ; † 1978 in Zurich ) was a Swiss juggler . In his time he was considered one of the world's best artists in this field and appeared internationally.

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He was the offspring of an artist dynasty that came from the Czech Republic and was originally called Kremka. Although he was born in Berlin during an engagement of his parents, he was a Swiss citizen. His grandfather, Josef Kremo, ran away from home as a child, went to the circus and become a high- wire artist and Icarian ; the great-grandmother was an art rider . The father Karl Kremo founded the family group Die Kremos and performed with them in circuses and variety theaters across Europe. At the age of 5, little Béla was already standing in the ring with his father and siblings and let himself be thrown into the air. Increasingly, however, he became more interested in juggling, learned by watching attentively and took an apprenticeship with a juggler friend. At the age of 20 he made his debut with a juggling number at the Apollo Theater in Aalborg , Denmark ; there he appeared under the show name Trenton in his family program.

From 1934 he appeared as a solo artist under his name Béla Kremo and developed his own style as a juggler that would make him known internationally: He only used three identical objects when juggling, in addition to balls, cigars and cigar boxes. He always appeared in a suit and deliberately used attributes of an English gentleman such as a bowler hat and gloves in his numbers ; therefore he became famous under the nickname "The Gentleman Juggler". During the Second World War he worked in Germany : In the artist film Akrobat Schö-ö-ön made by Wolfgang Staudte for the Tobis in 1942/1943 , he took on a role as a juggler alongside the famous Spanish clown Charlie Rivel and played himself. During this time he was engaged as a show act at the Chinateatern in neutral Sweden alongside US American , Danish, Swedish and German artists from Berlin. In the 1950s he worked increasingly in North America, including in the Capitol Theater in New York City , and was very well received by the press. In 1953 he was on German television in the show Knallbonbons together with Angèle Durand and the Hiller Girls . He also appeared on American television in the 1960s. Since 1970 he has presented a joint juggling number with his son Kris Kremo (* 1951); at the age of 65 he withdrew from show business. Kris Kremo developed the juggling programs in the spirit of his father as a "gentleman juggler" solo and performed in Las Vegas .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Béla Krema in Akrobat Schö-ö-ön ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At: murnau-stiftung.de, accessed on September 15, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.murnau-stiftung.de
  2. ↑ American Act clicks in Swedish Theater , Correspondents' Report of July 31, 1943, published in the industry magazine Billboard on September 18, 1943, p. 24, accessed on September 15, 2010
  3. ^ Advertisement by Béla Kremo's American agency with excerpts from press reviews , published in Billboard magazine on May 6, 1950, p. 50, accessed on September 15, 1950
personal data
SURNAME Kremo, Béla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kremo, Béla José (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss juggler
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Zurich