Enrico Rastelli

Enrico Rastelli ( born December 19, 1896 in Samara, † December 13, 1931 in Bergamo) was an internationally acclaimed Italian juggler.

Life

As the son of the artist couple Alberto Rastelli and Rastelli Giulia (nee Bedini ) joined Enrico Rastelli was a child in his parents' air acrobatic performance on. Later he formed with his mother and his apprentice Serafino Ivanov, the juggler was also a Äquilibristik trio. The artists worked with the Perche, a free-standing or from the lower man on the shoulders or the head balanced elastic ladder on which in turn detached balanced by Obermann and juggle.

His juggling career began in 1915 in Russia in the circus Truzzi. The circus owner Massimiliano Truzzi learned from Rastelli juggling. Later, he worked mainly in Western Europe and in the USA. He developed many of their own litter numbers that earned him worldwide fame. He was the first to juggle with balls made ​​of elastic rubber. In 1922, he appeared in the London Hippodrome Variety. On 1923/1924 in New York's Hippodrome Theatre him the breakthrough: In addition to the purely ' technical ' skills, it was especially the apparent ease of performance that impressed the audience. So reported about the Berliner Tageblatt on 10 March 1927 "It is outrageous how he - often with childlike pleasure - the balls mastered like no other, as they obey this great artist, and how he gracefully and easily as if it were a Children's would be feats accomplishes that you have not previously considered humanly possible. "

On 1 August 1930, his performance in football style in Düsseldorf Apollo Theatre premiere. The winged word from football - Rastelli for football players with particularly pronounced ball feeling is Rastellis juggling.

Enrico Rastelli is said to have juggled ten balls. He would be the first known juggler to have managed. Trusted reports that prove this beyond doubt, there are not over, however. In contrast to, for example, Jenny Jaeger he did not show this benefit in any case on the stage.

At the height of his success, the acclaimed star on December 6, 1931 juggled for the first time in his native city of Bergamo at a charity festival. It was the last appearance of his short life. 34 years old Enrico Rastelli died on 13 December 1931, the consequences of meningitis. He is survived by his wife Henriette (nee Price) and his three children Roberto, Elvira and Anna.

Opinions on Rastellis Art

M.H. Shapiro:

Ed Haffel:

Ringelnatz wrote after seeing a performance:

Posthumous Findings

Since 1962 is awarded as "Oscar of jugglers " of the Rastelli - price.