Tini Berman - Revision history

Djando at 22:54, 4 May 2018

2018-05-04T22:54:03Z

Djando: /* Miss Yvonne */

2017-06-04T18:34:40Z

‎Miss Yvonne

Djando: /* Miss Yvonne */

2017-06-04T18:34:20Z

‎Miss Yvonne

Djando: /* Image Gallery */

2017-06-04T18:33:36Z

‎Image Gallery

Djando: /* Miss Yvonne */

2015-10-21T21:12:56Z

‎Miss Yvonne

Djando: /* Image Gallery */

2014-08-17T23:40:21Z

‎Image Gallery

Djando: /* Cat Trainer */

2013-12-10T18:00:52Z

‎Cat Trainer

Djando: /* Miss Yvonne */

2013-12-03T22:34:47Z

‎Miss Yvonne

Djando: /* Miss Yvonne */

2013-12-03T22:33:07Z

‎Miss Yvonne

Djando: /* From Lions To Tigers And Other Cats */

2013-12-03T22:31:25Z

‎From Lions To Tigers And Other Cats

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−	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Berman, Tini]][[Category:Animal Trainers\|Berman, Tini]]	+	[[Category:Artists and Acts\|Berman, Tini]][[Category:Animal Trainers\|Berman, Tini]][[Category:Cage Acts\|Berman, Tini]]

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 ===Miss Yvonne===
-[[File:Yvonne_Berman_Lions.jpeg|thumb|right|300px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira. By then, her marriage was already falling apart.
+[[File:Yvonne_Berman_Lions.jpeg|thumb|right|400px||Tini Berman (c.1962)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira. By then, her marriage was already falling apart.
 For the 1954-55 winter season, Tini appeared with Knie’s lions at Paris’s [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], where she was billed as Miss Tintye (the German spelling of her nickname, Tintje), with the clown [[Pio Nock]] doing his comedy high-wire act above the cage. Right after that, she got a contract with Germany’s celebrated [[Circus Williams]], where she would spend the next six years of her life. It is with Circus Williams that she appeared for the first time in her native Holland in 1961. It is there, too, that an awestruck [[Gunther Gebel-Williams|Gunther Gebel]] fell in love with her (unfortunately for him, the feeling was not reciprocated), and eventually took her place in the big cage for one performance&mdash;an experience that triggered his passion for big cats.

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 ===Miss Yvonne===
-[[File:Tini_Berman_%2B_Lions.jpg|thumb|right|300px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira. By then, her marriage was already falling apart.
+[[File:Yvonne_Berman_Lions.jpeg|thumb|right|300px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira. By then, her marriage was already falling apart.
 For the 1954-55 winter season, Tini appeared with Knie’s lions at Paris’s [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], where she was billed as Miss Tintye (the German spelling of her nickname, Tintje), with the clown [[Pio Nock]] doing his comedy high-wire act above the cage. Right after that, she got a contract with Germany’s celebrated [[Circus Williams]], where she would spend the next six years of her life. It is with Circus Williams that she appeared for the first time in her native Holland in 1961. It is there, too, that an awestruck [[Gunther Gebel-Williams|Gunther Gebel]] fell in love with her (unfortunately for him, the feeling was not reciprocated), and eventually took her place in the big cage for one performance&mdash;an experience that triggered his passion for big cats.

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 File:Adrian_Berman.jpg|Adrian Berman (1957)
 File:Tini_Berman_%2B_Lions.jpg|Tini Berman and her lions (c.1959)
 File:Tini_Berman_(c.1965).jpg|Tini Berman (c.1965)
 File:Yvonne_Berman_(1968).jpg|Miss Yvonne and her tigers (1968)

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 ===Miss Yvonne===
-[[File:Tini_Berman_%2B_Lions.jpg|thumb|right|225px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira. By then, her marriage was already falling apart.
+[[File:Tini_Berman_%2B_Lions.jpg|thumb|right|300px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira. By then, her marriage was already falling apart.
 For the 1954-55 winter season, Tini appeared with Knie’s lions at Paris’s [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], where she was billed as Miss Tintye (the German spelling of her nickname, Tintje), with the clown [[Pio Nock]] doing his comedy high-wire act above the cage. Right after that, she got a contract with Germany’s celebrated [[Circus Williams]], where she would spend the next six years of her life. It is with Circus Williams that she appeared for the first time in her native Holland in 1961. It is there, too, that an awestruck [[Gunther Gebel-Williams|Gunther Gebel]] fell in love with her (unfortunately for him, the feeling was not reciprocated), and eventually took her place in the big cage for one performance&mdash;an experience that triggered his passion for big cats.

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 ===Miss Yvonne===
-[[File:Tini_Berman_%2B_Lions.jpg|thumb|right|220px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira.
+[[File:Tini_Berman_%2B_Lions.jpg|thumb|right|220px||Tini Berman (c.1959)]]Tini and Adriaan married, but Tini had also fallen in love with the circus, and she was schooled as a cat trainer at the Klant Zoo. She made her debut the following year, in 1952, at [[Circus Willy Hagenbeck]] with a group of five lions. Perhaps to tell her apart from Adriaan, she had become Miss Yvonne&mdash;a stage name she used principally in Germany. Blonde, athletic, elegant, with a winning smile and a Nordic charm, Tini was an attractive woman indeed, and the audiences liked her; her career quickly took off. She was featured at [[Circus Mikkenie]] in 1953, and the following year, [[Circus Knie]] contracted her to present a group of seven lions trained by Ladislav Ira.
 For the 1954-55 winter season, Tini appeared with Knie’s lions at Paris’s [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirque Medrano]], where she was billed as Tintye Berman (the German spelling of her nickname, Tintje). Right after that, she got a contract with Germany’s celebrated [[Circus Williams]], where she would spend the next six years of her life. It is with Circus Williams that she appeared for the first time in her native Holland in 1961. It is there, too, that an awestruck [[Gunther Gebel-Williams|Gunther Gebel]] fell in love with her (unfortunately for him, the feeling was not reciprocated), and eventually took her place in the big cage for one performance&mdash;an experience that triggered his passion for big cats.

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 ===From Lions To Tigers And Other Cats===
-[[File:Tini_Berman_(c.1965).jpg|thumb|left|200px|Tini Berman (c.1965)]]In 1964, while working with [[Circus Carl Althoff]], she switched from lions to a mixed group of lions and tigers. Then, at [[Circus Franz Althoff]] in1966 and 1967, she presented a group of seven tigers, and when she returned to Bertram Mills Circus in London for its farewell season at London’s Olympia, in the winter of 1966-67, she worked with a mixed group of lions, tigers, leopards and black panthers belonging to Franz Althoff. Tini Berman was indeed an accomplished cat trainer.
+In 1964, while working with [[Circus Carl Althoff]], she switched from lions to a mixed group of lions and tigers. Then, at [[Circus Franz Althoff]] in1966 and 1967, she presented a group of seven tigers, and when she returned to Bertram Mills Circus in London for its farewell season at London’s Olympia, in the winter of 1966-67, she worked with a mixed group of lions, tigers, leopards and black panthers belonging to Franz Althoff. Tini Berman was indeed an accomplished cat trainer.
 For the summer season of 1973, Miss Yvonne was featured in Germany’s premier circus, [[Circus Krone]], where she would finally put an end to her career as a cat trainer. She remained with Circus Krone, though, where she worked for many years as Box Office Manager. Tini Berman passed away on October 22, 2013, at age eighty-four. She was one of the great female cat trainers of the second half of the twentieth century.