What makes a good clown?

"The arrival of a good clown in a city is worth more than 30 donkeys laden with medicine." When I first heard this old oriental proverb, it immediately touched me, as it aptly describes the clown's special qualities, personal and social functions.

Let's immerse ourselves in this poetic image of the wanderer. We see the clown on the move, at home nowhere and at home everywhere. He is a mediator between worlds. A professional perspective changer. And when he encourages his audience to play with him, we see the world through the clown's eyes. He awakens in us an old, lost desire to turn things upside down and look at them from a different perspective. This is how fun and creativity arise, and we transform failure into success. The reward for this acrobatics is laughter.

Even though the clown's performance looks so simple, behind it lies an intense engagement with the clown's performance and personal humor.

What fascinates me most is the clown's simplicity. With few resources, the clown touches on the essence of human longings, hopes, and doubts. This is why he is a master of form. Nevertheless, the clown is more than a mere fictional character. He represents a way of seeing, communicating, and acting in the world. His method is play, and a good clown is a master of play.

When children play, they cope with and process their experiences and create their feelings and ideas. The clown rescues this wonderful quality of play into the adult world.

Playing is a kind of dry run. In doing so, we learn to trust in saying "yes," to accept impulses, and to send out clear impulses without constantly listening to our inner censor. In this way, we experience ourselves and others in the flow of play.

So: Bring yourself to play!