Martin Riedel

​I graduated with a diagonal Chinese pole act from ACaPA in Tilburg - the Netherlands, in 2014. Inspired by Roberto Magro, during a creation with my class in the 3r​ d​ year of circus school, I started researching material on a diagonal Chinese Pole and focused on new stage architecture, despite the regular pole.

Before “RoboPole”, my main focus was on entering the German Varieté market, performing shows in GOP, Palazzo, Galas and a few corporate gigs.
Unsatisfied, I was always looking for a more challenging, and most important-, a more artistic project.

Together with Mathias Ramfelt, I got pre-selected for Circus Next in the year 2015.
We did not get further but had crazy times (farting) on stage. I still enjoy the concept and will continue working on this production in the future.

In the same year I met UliK via the Rudi Renner Agency at the “Internationale Kulturbörse” in Freiburg, Germany. Scott Nelson from the Accidental illusionists “Scott & Muriel” introduced me to him and 2 weeks later UliK and I ended up in his crazy secret inventor workshop, trying out his Robot and the first of many Chinese poles, that used to break and took a long time and resources to figure the right materials.

-From the interview with Kim Campbell-