Tuesday, June 19, 2018

BEARS 19B


Posted by Chic Silber at 6/19/2018 09:45:00 PM

4 comments:

Charles Hanson said...

Sadly, we probably will never see the likes of this act again....

20 June, 2018 12:42
Chic Silber said...


Ursula Boettcher from

East Germany before the

East & West were unified

She died in retirement

at home in Dresden at 83

in March of 2010

A tough cookie but was

an icredible presenter

& trainer of animals

20 June, 2018 13:32
Roger Smith said...

The main reason Ursula was so crusty,as John Herriott used to note, is she was on RBB during the ongoing Cold War era, and was here as an Iron Curtain act. Each faction on the show, Bulgarians, Romanians, East Germans, all had Directors. Ursula's East German Director ruled her relentlessly, reminding her, indeed all the communist country acts, of dire consequences if they did not knuckle under, and God help them if they attempted defection. These acts drew full performance fees from the Felds, but the performers were allotted a $7 per diem, to meet their personal needs as best they could. If this oppression led to anyone's sour attitudes, including Ursula's, this is the reason to be understood.

20 June, 2018 16:11
Chic Silber said...


This was her tallest bear

Alaska was very photogenic

Yes Roger she was under

constant threat from the

DDR government authority

to take her bears away

21 June, 2018 10:55

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