2023-08-07 11:00:22
“King of Clowns”
Born on April 15, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, Edwards has been active primarily in Europe since the 1970s. He lived in Spain until his death.
The American clown and comedian Jango Edwards is dead. The 73-year-old died in Barcelona on Saturday, said the mayor of the Catalan metropolis, Jaume Collboni, on Twitter. Edwards, whose real name was Stanley Ted Edwards, announced last year that he was terminally ill with cancer. He has lived in Barcelona for many years. Spanish comedians dubbed him the “King of Clowns”. “Today the world is a little sadder,” wrote the group of female clowns “Pepa Plana” on Twitter.
Born on April 15, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, Edwards has been active primarily in Europe since the 1970s, including with his troupe The Friends Road Show. Edwards also founded the Amsterdam Festival of Fools, which was considered one of the most important clown festivals in the world between 1975 and 1984. In 2000, the American also worked at the Roncalli Circus.
Edwards was considered one of the co-founders of the nouveau clown movement – which the “Anarcho” clown explained in interviews as follows: “Most of our work does not take place on the stage. Our work is life. We work on the streets, with children, in schools, in hospitals. Nouveau clowns are all the same, no one competes with the other. It’s different in the circus.”
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Edwards was also known to a wider audience in Germany through stage and TV appearances. Among other things, he released a record and acted in a few movies, such as “Tango durch Deutschland” (1981) with Eddie Constantine or as a violinist in the Thomas Gottschalk film “Zärtliche Chaoten II” from 1988.
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