Circus Krone

Circus Krone apparently is a Munich institution and I still remember its fame from my childhood.
Here in München they have a permanent structure in the shape of a tent.
Armin and Barbara had organised tickets for us all to go there on the 25th December, which was no easy feat as the ticket sell out within two hours of the box office being opened. Barbara took a day off work to be in the cue there.
It was a lovely idea for the day after Christmas and the performance was quite something. As is traditional it was opened with a clown in an amazing glittering gown playing the trumpet…

The glamorous clown who opened the show with his trumpet.

This clown changed his outfit two or three more times throughout the afternoon (the performance is over three hours, not counting the intermission), each time outdoing himself with shine and glitz. His clown friend was the less ‘beautifully’ dressed one, but both of them were skilled musicians who displayed their musical skills with various instruments. My personal favourite was this one…

What’s that instrument?

The live orchestra!

Greatmusicians

I must apologise for the bad photos, but thought I show what we saw anyway. The little cameras struggled with the environment…hmm, well perhaps it was me who struggled?!
Anyway there were amazing acrobats who started out and who had another number later on with hoola hoops…

Hmm, they didn’t have many clothes on…

This girl was amazing with hoops.

There were three ‘golden’ people who moved in slow motion displaying extraordinary control of their bodies….

That was one of many amazing postures they could take on!

There were elephants, who I (and others in our group) thought looked really sad…

The elephants

I think the show would have been just as good if not better without the exotic animals. There was a lady with a whole bunch of dogs and they had a great number which we all agreed could stay as an animal performance.
There were also horses and zebras…

Great lighting with the zebras.

the same lady trained them as the elephants.
There were tigers…

I prefer them in a more natural environment.

Ben loved them, because he likes big cats, but I couldn’t help think that they need a different live.
There was ‘the strongest man’ on earth…

who frankly needed longer trousers!! But he was really strong because he played tug of war with 14 men from the audience, including our very own Raphael and Armin, and he won against them all!
At that point my camera battery ran out which was too bad because the finale of the show was a North (!) Korean group who were simply outstanding and mind boggling!
They built up an enormous net and three very high towers in a triangle on the right side of the arena. One tower forming the tip of the triangle, the other two opposite of each other, leading up to the tip. On each of those towers a storng looking man was positioned.
THe rest of the troupe were positioned at the opposite end of the arena directly across from the tip of the triangle, on the ground. There they had a big, big swing on which they stood and build up considerable speed and then one of them flew (!) across the entire arena into the arms of two men on the opposing towers. They then swung that person around a bit more, until they released the person to fly on to the man at the tip of the triangle. Then the person made its way back with the same method.
They were amazing and the audience couldn’t stop clapping at the end.
We were so lucky to be taken to such an event and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
We were very tired upon our return and Raphael even carried Tessa from the bus stop to the house…
Good night
Tanja

Update, 28th December…here is the forgotten photo of Raphael carrying home Tessa…

Raphi carrying Tessa home from the bus stop…I wonder if her own brothers will do that for her in 10 years time??