22. Januar 2008  
Chicago / USA  
Wheel Gymnastics

Bientzle is teaching in Chicago

Wolfgang Bientzle (GER)

It is no wonder that children travel from all over Chicago to train and study with CircEsteem, Chicago’s non-profit youth circus.
Wolfgang BIENTZLE, Germany, the holder of the most Wheel Gymnastic titles in the world and former athlete national coach for Germany, is dedicating his considerable talents to CircEsteem as a coach and performer.
To say Bientzle is world-class wheel gymnastic coach and performer is an understatement.: As a competitor Bientzle holds 8 World, 11 European and more than 60 German titles....


Bientzle has performed in countless shows, including Cirque du Soleil’s with the show "Quidam" in Amsterdam  and "Mystere" for three years in Las Vegas, as well as numerous television appearances, so The Late Show with Dave Letterman and on Viva Variety, many circus festivals and galas, like at the Laureus World Sports Award events...

As a coach he has trained German Wheel for the last year's world champions,  trained all the current Cirque Du Soleil wheel performers and numerous World Champions.

He is undoubtedly the driving force behind Wheel Gymnastics today, especially in the United States, but also a wellknown name and person in his homeland Germany, yet!

Paul Hallinan MILLER, founder of 'CircEsteem'

Bientzle approached CircEsteem in 2005, proposing an educational partnership, which the young organization was happy to nourish. Originally founded by Paul H. Miller a former Barnum and Bailey’s Clown, CircEsteem seeks to unite youth from diverse racial, cultural, and economic backgrounds and help them build self-esteem and mutual respect through the practice of circus arts.
Since his arrival in Chicago, Wolfgang has brought the expertise, opportunity, and acclaim that enabled CircEsteem to flourish.
Bientzle’s impact is resounding; he has sent two CircEsteem athletes to world competition, ...
... trained more that 15 assistant coaches and brought new levels of skills and artistic expression to the young artist there.He also made CircEsteem the home of the U.S Gymnastic Wheel Federation.
Cornell Freene has been a student with CircEsteem for several years and has had the privilege of Bientzle’s attention:
“I have been training under the belt of Wolfgang for about two years. Our most recent project has been training for the 2007 World Championship in Wheel Gymnastics.
For months, Wolfgang woke up every morning to coach me at 6:30 am before school. The training was hard but worth it, I placed 2nd in the world in the junior boys vault competition. Wolfgang is also very creative. He has choreographed our individual acts well as our whole shows, which has been amazing.”
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Unforgotten: ... Bientzle as 'Humphrey Bogart'

Bientzle is a cosmopolitan!
He has contributed to shows in more than 50 countries and is highly respected among the Monte Carlo Circus Festival and the World Circus Festival in Moscow, Holiday on Ice, Disney......

<< Unforgotten is his impressively uniquely performance in a matchless form as Humphrey Bogart ...!

Wolfgang Bientzle, as creative director of CircEsteem, has brought a professional flair, increased organization and advanced rehearsal techniques that has benefited this project greatly.

In short the impact that Bientzle has had on the individuals of CircEsteem, the community in which it works, and on wheel gymnastics as a whole in the United States, is immeasurable.
*Source: P.H. Miller, CircEsteem