{"id":176218,"date":"2025-09-28T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176218\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:20:07","slug":"circus-paul-busch-acrobat-falls-to-death-after-trapeze-stunt-goes-wrong-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176218\/","title":{"rendered":"Circus Paul Busch: Acrobat falls to death after trapeze stunt goes wrong in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

An acrobat has fallen to her death in front of a horrified crowd after a trapeze stunt went catastrophically wrong.<\/p>\n

The 27 year-old-old identified as Marina B was performing solo in a big top tent in east German city Bautzen when she fell five metres from a trapeze swing.<\/p>\n

More than 100 people were watching on when the tragedy unfolded toward the end of an afternoon performance of the Circus Paul Busch, with some audience members screaming and fleeing the tent and parents covering their children\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n

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It is understood Marina did not use a safety rope.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t believe this has happened,\u201d one of the circus performers told Bild<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ralf Huppertz, CEO of the Association of German Circus Companies, said he suspected the Spanish acrobat may have had a health condition because it was \u201cunusual for a well-trained artist like Marina to not survive a fall from just five metres. Perhaps she got dizzy on the trapeze.\u201d<\/p>\n

The circus has cancelled its planned shows, posting a note on its ticket booth that read, \u201cDue to a bereavement, the circus will be closed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The circumstances surrounding the incident is under investigation. Police confirmed acrobats were not required to use safety ropes.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe doesn\u2019t have to. She decides for herself whether to use safety rope. No one else was in the ring during the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marina had previously been quoted as saying she believed her art had the power to make \u201cunforgettable moments\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, every show is an opportunity to share my passion for what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An acrobat has fallen to her death in front of a horrified crowd after a trapeze stunt went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-176218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}