09.05.2005 - An international commentary about Schiller

“... and about German literature I also know that Goethe and Schiller lived in Weimar, that Schiller wrote [William] Tell, which was then set to music by Rossini...”

Thus the words of Grock, the world’s greatest clown and an excellent musician:

“... We worked in Marseilles for three months, up to fifteen hours a day, and frequently also during the night. We practiced the instruments until our arms wanted to fall off from exhaustion; we practiced the violin, the clarinet, the piano, the drum, and the difficult English accordion, the so-called concertina. If I may say so, I am one of the best concertina players around today. To make a long story short, a state examination could not be more thorough or strict. We rehearsed four different circus entrées one after the other with twenty instruments”.

Grock, Ich lebe gern [“I enjoy life”] (1930)

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