Ronald Jopt

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Ronald Jopt (born January 23, 1963 in Greiz ) is a German artist , clown and actor . He gained fame primarily through the fictional character clown Jopi, which he embodied .

Life

Ronald Jopt comes from a theater family and grew up in Gera. His mother was a stage dancer, his father, the actor Harald Jopt , has appeared in various DEFA and television films. In 1969, when he started school in Gera, Ronald Jopt moved to East Berlin at the end of his school days . From 1979 to 1983 he studied at the State School for Artistry , flanked by training in clarinet at the Berlin-Mitte music school .

After an engagement at the State Circus of the GDR , where Ronald Jopt performed in the arenas of the Berolina and Busch Circus as an artist / equilibrist and clown, he was in 1985/1986 as a youth club director in the Kulturhaus in "Ernst-Thälmann-Park “Berlin and then freelance, took acting and pantomime lessons at the same time and qualified in tap dance in addition to speaking training. His acrobatic acting training, together with his skills as an instrumental soloist (including bagpipes ), culminated in the figure he developed of the clown Jopi - with whom Ronald Jopt created numerous pantomime-musical solo performances. Often on the stage of his self-built circus wagon , with which he drives through the country, pulled by a Famulus RS14 / 36 vintage tractor .

From 1987 to 1994 he appeared regularly in projects at the Vorpommersche Landesbühne Anklam , later also at the Theater der Altmark Stendal . It was from 1993 each for the summer season in a Ronald Jopts idea Anklamer theater productions circus tent , the Chapeau Rouge , on the beach promenade of the seaside resort Heringsdorf to present. From 1999 to 2002 took a Thomas Langhoff for his production Visit of the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Ronald Jopt as a guest to the German Theater Berlin. Ronald Jopt toured Mongolia in November 2014 with a guest performance sponsored by the Goethe-Institut and the Foreign Office and appeared on the local television program.

For the training of clowns, pantomimes and actors, Jopt works as a lecturer for numerous workshops and training courses. He lives in Berlin and in the Uckermark .

Theater (selection)

  • 1992: Clown Jopi is looking for his 'J' by and with Ronald Jopt, Vorpommersche Landesbühne Anklam
  • 1993: The partnership of Barry Hines , West Pomeranian State Theater Anklam, Director: Wolfgang Bordel
  • 1994: Happy End by Dorothy Lane / Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill , Vorpommersche Landesbühne Anklam, director: Wolfgang Bordel
  • 1995: West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein , Theater der Altmark Stendal, director: Georg Immelmann
  • 1996: The physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Theater der Altmark Stendal
  • 1997: Vineta - The Sunken City , Vorpommersche Landesbühne Anklam, director: Wolfgang Bordel
  • 1999–2002: Visit of the old lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, director: Thomas Langhoff, Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • 2004–2006: Musical clowning , solo program, Rheinsberg Music Academy, Rheinsberger Musiktage
  • 2007: The upside down spit or the conductor looked at the baton , concert workshop with the Potsdam Chamber Academy, the orchestra of the state capital and clown Jopi
  • 2008: In the matter of Adam & Eva by Rudi Strahl , director: Birgit Lenz, Usedomer Festival
  • 2010: A crazy smell of fresh hay by Rudi Strahl, directed by Birgit Lenz, Usedomer Festival
  • 2012: No people, no people by Rudi Strahl, director: Birgit Lenz, Usedomer Festival
  • 2014: Arno Prinz von Wolkenstein by Rudi Strahl, director: Birgit Lenz, Usedomer Festival
  • 2015: Sonnenallee by Leander Haußmann , Thomas Brussig and Detlev Buck , directed by Birgit Lenz, Usedomer Hafenbühne

movie theater

  • 2003: Luther , directed by Eric Till , co-production: Germany / Great Britain / France

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see archive portal of the State Circus of the GDR
  2. ↑ see Chronicle of the Chapeau Rouge
  3. ↑ Ronald Jopt in the TV report by Christine Thalmann: Theaterdorf Heringsdorf in NDR-Nordmagazin on August 5, 1993
  4. ↑ Ronald Jopt in Vera Kröning's radio report: The logic of laughing - how a joke is created on hr2kultur on May 15, 2007
  5. ^ Annette Kühne: Amusing Comedy on the Usedom Harbor Stage in: Ostsee-Zeitung of July 14, 2008, page 21
  6. ↑ Annemarie Bierstedt: The daily GDR madness or those kissing differently in the West - Usedomer Hafenbühne celebrates the premiere of the comedy 'Sonnenallee' in front of 530 spectators in the staging by Birgit Lenz in: Ostsee-Zeitung of July 13, 2015, page 14
personal data
SURNAME Yup, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clown Jopi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, clown and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz