As of: January 31, 2024, 5:37 p.m
By: Susanne Sasse
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Top-class artists, fast-paced entertainment – the Cirque du Soleil show “Kurios” also attracted many celebrities to the premiere in Munich: actor Hannes Jaenicke and his new love Stephanie Krogmann.
You're never too old to dream, just as you're never too old for true love, and even hard-core achievers can still be astonished as little children: the world-famous Cirque du Soleil proves all of this in its new show "Kurios", which is now in Munich on the Theresienwiese shows.
So what could be a more romantic place than to introduce your new love right here?
Actor Hannes Jaenicke (63) came to the VIP premiere holding hands with colleague Stephanie Krogmann (38) - the two have often appeared in front of the camera together.
Stephanie Krogmann lives in Berlin, Hannes Jaenicke lives on Ammersee and in Los Angeles.
Cirque du Soleil is a favorite circus for the committed animal rights activist, as it does not have any animal performers.
Hannes Jaenicke and Stephanie Krogmann (r.) have known each other as colleagues for years, as can be seen here at a film premiere in 2017.
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In a tricky way: The lion was simply invisible in the new show, only his roar could be heard, and the cat acted like a clown so lifelike - including pawing at the litter box - that the audience laughed to tears.
National goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who said before the show that he was “not a circus fan,” also clapped for a long time and found the performance to be “nice entertainment.”
He cleverly sneaked past the press into the performance with his pregnant girlfriend Anika Bissel and caused wide-eyed and shy reserve among the little fans: Milla (11), the daughter of presenter Alexander Mazza, didn't dare do it in the end to ask for an autograph.
“What we have seen is a triumph of imagination and creativity,” exclaimed actor Timothy Peach.
“These poetic dreams are true art and they in turn are the best remedy against all the injustice in the world: against war, terror, strikes and the rise of the AfD, for example,” Peach summarized his elation.
Ottfried Fischer and his wife Simone: “We don’t have anything impossible”
Actor Ottfried Fischer and his wife Simone laughed and were amazed nonstop and were happy to have made the effort, because after all, the TV star from “The Bull of Tölz” is in a wheelchair and struggling with Parkinson's disease.
“We don't have it, and we're doing well with this motto,” said his wife Simone.
As a little girl, actress Michaela May “tormented” her parents with frequent circus performances: “As a tightrope walker with a rope on the floor or as a circus horse with a self-sewn bridle, until my mother enrolled me in the ballet,” she said and laughed.
“The Cirque du Soleil is a poetic and acrobatic surprise package,” she summarized her impressions.
“A gateway to another world of dreams, fantasy, poetry and artistry,” enthused actress Rosalie Thomass, who visited the Cirque du Soleil in Japan for the first time when she filmed the cinema film Greetings from Fukushima there nine years ago.
She particularly admires the discipline of the artists, “they train so much, whereas we actors are lazy.”
As a child, her parents often enrolled her in participatory circuses during the holidays, and so the spirited, thoroughbred actress gained her first stage experiences at an early age.
“I’m an old circus horse,” she said with a laugh and added: “Even though I was a very shy child in my private life, I was always happy to go on stage.”
Comedian Michael Mittermeier said that he got his first theater role in kindergarten, playing a dog, “a very pitiful animal.”
At the age of ten he played a sketch by Karl Valentin at carnival before bringing his own jokes to the stage at the age of 20.
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“I have always been a circus horse and love what Cirque du Soleil creates,” said actress Rosalie Thomas.
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The Cirque du Soleil show did not miss competition from Circus Krone
Actor Sigmar Solbach tried his hand at a circus ring himself, namely at Circus Krone, where he performed with the lions and tigers.
Also Jana Mandana Lacey-Krone, the director of Circus Krone, her husband Martin Lacey jr.
and son Alexis Henry didn't miss the show and, like almost all the other guests, honored the performances with minutes of standing applause.
“I am completely inspired by this dream world,” enthused Sepp Schauer (“Storm of Love”).
“There are sometimes circuses in football,” said Christoph Freund, FC Bayern’s sporting director, in an interview with Susanne Sasse.
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FC Bayern sports director: “Circuses are also more common on the football pitch”
The stars of FC Bayern were also enthusiastic about the “Kurios” show by Cirque du Soleil.
Christoph Freund was looking forward to a “nice atmosphere”.
Is he afraid when the artists ask him to come on stage?
“No, I'm never afraid,” laughed the sports director: “There are also more circuses on the football field.
But not one as intentional and perfectly planned as here in the ring.” Manuel Neuer and Co. sat in the audience clapping.
Hopefully they will soon give the fans a standing ovation on the pitch too.
The fans would certainly have nothing against a spectacle like Cirque du Soleil.
Clear the ring!
The artists moved in the Cirque du Soleil ring like beings from another world and almost weightless, like in water.
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