Red Grizzly Town

  • Stunt Show | 1994 | Wandering western town with an authentic western show performing a bank robbery with showdown, as well as a grandiose Buster Keaton performance by Tommy Krappweis
    Red Grizzly Saloon
    Quelle: HANSA-PARK
    Red Grizzly Saloon Quelle: HANSA-PARK

    A wandering western town has settled in HANSA-PARK for a few months. An authentic Western show was presented every day in the mobile setting and fierce fights were fought with colts and fists. The show was a mix of the Magnificent Seven and Buster Keaton films. When there was another bank robbery in Red Grizzly Town, Marshal Cyrus Thibeault was already there to get the gangsters off the balcony with his shotgun. The adventure was then toasted at the Red Grizzly Saloon with the Undertaker and a greenish booze from his sag-shaped hip flask, while elsewhere a pickpocket was to be lynched.

    Red Grizzly Saloon Quelle: HANSA-PARK

    The manager was Heinz J. Bründl from Munich. He was the initiator, builder and outfitter of the western town "No Name City" in Poing near Munich. His vision of an authentic western town down to the last detail was opened in 1987 as an adventure park. Since then, life in America at the time of the pioneers and gold diggers has been staged with lots of music, atmosphere and shows. For ten years, banks were robbed and bad guys were taken by the city sheriff. After the adventure park was closed, Bründl decided to travel through Germany with a mobile version of the western town as "Red Grizzly Town". In addition to the Americana in Nuremberg, the ensemble, made up of former No Name City performers, also stopped at HANSA-PARK in 1994.

    Tommy Krappweis, who was more likely to be seen on Disney TV and KiKa, and is the spiritual father of Bernd das Brot, worked for Bründl in No Name City as an actor and stunt man for a long time in his youth. For the new edition, Bründl left the staging and choreography of the shows to Tommy. At HANSA-PARK, Krappweis was above all the Buster Keaton double, who provided many funny moments as a photographer. The two of them wrote a book about their experiences in No Name City entitled "Four Fists for a Black Eye", which Chapter 21 tells a nice story about HANSA-PARK.