Circus Knie and the colors of Ukraine
The world does not stop at the circus tent. This year it becomes clearer than ever in the knee. There were standing ovations for the program in Winterthur.
–“People come back,” says patron Fredy Knie Junior. The 2022 season still does not bring the hoped-for normality.
Photo: Madeleine Schoder
There they are again. Ursus and Nadeschkin. Barely aged. He in a suit, with a millimeter haircut. She in overalls, with the back muscles of a free climber. Pedantry and chaos, supposedly traveling through the circus tent on a «moped». He wears blue, she wears yellow, same colors as always.
–“Do you and the donkey have the same hairdresser?” – Ursus asks his stage partner Nadeschkin.
Photo: Katja Stuppia
In February, the conductor traveled from the Ukraine to Switzerland and Circus Knie. Half an hour later, the border with Poland, which he had just crossed, was closed to men. This is what Fredy Knie Junior tells us on the sidelines of the demonstration. “Putin is crazy,” he says. “That’s bad for us too.”
