Christian König

Comedyjuggling act with ping pong balls and rackets

During Corona I experimented wih ping pong rackets and balls and developed a juggling and comedy act out of it. I show creative and fast paced juggling paired with absurd comedy and suprising tricks. An energetic and entertaining act.

Duration: 8 min

Playfull balljugglingact

In this act, balls, body and piano music form an union, sometimes working together, sometimes working against each other. It draws inspiration from the optical illusions found in the staircase pictures of painter M. C. Escher. The juggler challenges himself throughout, attempting to master seemingly impossible feats of balance, explore unusual ways of moving, and discover intriguing patterns—only to ultimately fuse all these elements into a harmonic juggling choreography.

Duration: 7 min

Older Acts

A poetic and humorous piece  about a juggler searching for himself.

Who am I and who do I want to be?
In a search for answers a juggler finds even more questions and ends up in confusion.
Is he a ball? Is he an opera diva?
“When I grow up” speaks with humour and lightness about dreams, hopes, insecurities and the difficulties of finding oneself.

length: 7:30 min

I am a circus artist and ball juggler, living in Germany. I graduated 2018 from  ÉSAC (école supérieure des arts de cirque) in Brussels and I am working now as a performer and teacher.

Same story in more than two sentences:

I grew up in Germany, in a small town called Würzburg. There I started juggling early, when I was 10 years old next to practicing many sports, like climbing or volleyball. After school I worked one year as a volunteer in a children circus and this changed my life quite a lot: I found out that in circus all the things I like come together: Juggling, moving, jumping, acrobatics, humour. Like a playground for big children.

After I started first studying psychology in Dresden, what still interests me, but I found out: I learn more about myself and how humen work in performing on stage and working as a teacher. So I decided to learn in a circus school and so I did: from 2015 to 2018 in the école superieure des arts du cirque in Brussels, where I specialised in ball juggling.

I was always more interested in juggling and movement, than throwing many balls in the air, so I am continously working to deapen my knowledge of my body, dance and performing and how to integrate it in the juggling. In all my work I use humour to bring lightness in difficult situations. To take one step back, laugh about my personal struggles, doubts and insecurities and go on.

Now I work with my solo act, I teach juggling, movement and theatre in Germany, I work with the “Compagnie Wurst” together with Elias Oechsner and Mikail Karahan on our first show “Bien sûr, pas sûr!” and I played in the children concert “Somnia” in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

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