Lottie Brunn
Lottie Brunn (✦October 12, 1925 - †August 5, 2008) was a German American juggler and acrobat. She is believed to be the fastest woman juggler.[1][2]
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- Lottie Bruun photographs
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Francis and Lottie (siblings)
She started juggling as a teenager in Aschaffenburg, Germany, together with her brother, Francis Brunn.[3] She and her brother were brought to the United States after being discovered in Spain by John Ringling [Note 1] in 1947. She became a United States citizen in 1962.[3]
She was the wife of circus ringmaster Ted Chirrick. Her son Michael Chirrick is also a juggler.[1]
Brunn was a resident of Moonachie, New Jersey. She had moved to the area in 1959 when she came to the area for an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show and perform at Radio City Music Hall and found other circus artists living there.[3]
Notes
- ↑ John Nicholas Ringling (✦May 31, 1866 – †December 2, 1936) was an American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows to create Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus. In addition to owning and managing many of the largest circuses in the United States, he was also a rancher, a real estate developer and art collector. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1987.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Holtermann, Callie. "Overlooked No More: Lottie Brunn, the 'Queen of Jugglers'", The New York Times, 2022-07-21.
- ↑ Lottie Brunn |, http://historicaljugglingprops.com/lottie-brunn/ (Publisher: The Museum of Juggling History) (Language: en-US
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Marvell, Cindy. "Ladies and Gentlemen, in the Center Ring...", The New York Times, February 9, 1997. Accessed January 26, 2023. "Cindy Marvell article on Lottie Brunn, 71-year-old retired juggler who appeared with shows in Europe and US for years and more recently has taught art of juggling; interview with Brunn at home in Moonachie, New Jersey"
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