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Role
  
Clown

Albums
  
Canti popolari nel Ticino


Name
  
Jakob Dimitri

Spouse
  
Gunda Dimitri (m. 1961)

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Children
  
David Dimitri, Nina Dimitri, Masha Dimitri, Ivan Muller

Parents
  
Werner Jakob Muller, Maja Tschirren

Similar People
  
Roberto e Dimitri, Grock, Gardi Hutter, Kaiser & Dimitri, Philipp Fankhauser

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Dimitri Jakob Muller (September 18, 1935 – July 19, 2016), known as Dimitri was a Swiss clown and mime artist. He later changed his name to Jakob Dimitri.

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Career

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Dimitri was born in Ascona, Switzerland in 1935. When he was seven years old he decided he wanted to become a clown. After graduating from school, Dimitri became an apprentice potter while studying music and theater. He went to Paris to study under Etienne Decroux, then Marcel Marceau.

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In 1959, he was hired as an Auguste by Louise Maisse, a whiteface clown. He then created his own solo mime act which was received with much acclaim during the 1962 International Mime Festival in Berlin. In 1971, Dimitri founded with his wife Gunda a theater. In 1975, he founded the Scuola Teatro Dimitri in Verscio. It is a small performing arts college in the Swiss national higher education system. In 1973, he was awarded the Grock prize, and appeared with New York's Big Apple Circus. He has also performed in many other countries across the globe. He was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1995.

Death

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He died at age 80 on July 19, 2016 in Borgnone, Ticino.

Style

Dimitri preferred performing solo in theaters with a few props and no scenery. His act was motivated with his comic logic and playful spirit allowing him to incorporate a wide variety of circus skills. Interaction with the audience was an integral part of both his stage acts. The finale of his show was to play four saxophones simultaneously. He was a published author and songwriter, and operated a theater company with his wife Gunda, in Verscio, in the canton of Ticino in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland.

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