Block stamp: for us children - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1993 - 100 Pfennig

I am Musico, the music clown of some circus, for whom I sing loud and juggle notes. Of course, I can also play various instruments that can even run or ride on wheels. For our clowns we usually have too small or too big musical instruments. Also, we are always dressed and made funny. Whether we have a white complexion or a different livery depends on which type of clown we each embody. So we differentiate z. For example, in the name after the time of our circus number or our special talent in the musical or acrobatic field. We love to experience how much we love children through the joy we give children. That is why we like to imitate them, be it face painting or carnival costumes. Of the children we are also often drawn, and reminiscent of such a representation of my picture on the stamp. Only since the mid-19th century there are music clowns; Consequently, I already have a nearly 150-year-old tradition. The term "clown" is mentioned for the first time in a book in 1817. Our predecessors in earlier centuries were the fools still known from Till Eulenspiegel's fairy tales and stories. My friend, the "stupid August" in the circus, goes back to the jugglers or the Bajazzo. In the past, jugglers were also tricksters or magicians who attracted and charmed audiences. I, the great "Musico", also wants to attract and enchant the children and people, as many of my colleagues constantly do in the Circus. Joy and sorrow are often close together in life, and so the clown wants to express it. Sometimes the pain became bitterly serious, because some of my ancestors died in poverty and misery when they became old and ill and could no longer conquer the favor of the public. To my biggest colleague, the Swiss music clown dr. H. c. However, Adrian Wettach, called Grock, did well until the end of his life. His saying was "not possible," and as a mystery of his masterly clowning, he once revealed, "My jokes come to my mind: a player would be lucky enough to call a poet inspiration."