![]() They have one daughter together, actress Sophie von Haselberg. Von Haselberg has been married to Bette Midler since 1984. Theatre In Trance – Rainer Werner Fassbinde ![]() In the decade before his death, Brian Routh created sound works that incorporated vocal soundbites from world leaders, politicians, madmen, poets, murderers and others. ![]() Ĭurrently, Martin von Haselberg has created a series of large photographic images made into inflatable sculptural shapes titled Floatulents, and is a painter. ![]() They also starred in the 1990 comedy film The Spirit of ’76. The Kipper Kids also performed a song in the 1991 comedy film The Addams Family: “Playmates” which can be heard in the film and on its soundtrack. First aired on Valentine’s Day, 1989, “I See England, I See France, I See Maddie’s Netherworld” featured The Kipper Kids as a pair of gravediggers in a surreal dream sequence, along with leading cast members Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. Another television appearance came during the fifth season of ABC’s Moonlighting. They also were seen as characters in the 1982 film Forbidden Zone and the 1989 film UHF. Von Haselberg made a number of films at the American Film Institute with Routh in the lead role: Quiet Lives (1991), People Are No Damn Good (1991) and Your Turn To Roll It #54 (1992). Kippers, while the Kids also appeared in a 1982 project for HBO executive-produced by von Haselberg, The Mondo Beyondo Show, a one-off variety show of sorts for performance artists (including a pre-Stomp Yes/No People, La La La Human Steps, Bill Irwin, Paul Zaloom and others) hosted by Bette Midler’s Mondo Beyondo character. For HBO they produced Mum’s Magic Mulch, and for Cinemax, K.O. The Kipper Kids made two projects for television. Japanese rituals, English music hall, Viennese Actionism, and the work of Samuel Beckett were amongst their influences. Examples are “Tea Ceremony” (1972) a Japanese tea ceremony-inspired piece and “Boxing Ceremony” (1972) in which one performer beats himself until bloodied whilst the other acts as referee. Routh and von Haselberg created elaborate but purposely low-tech installations in which they would perform “ceremonies” using mostly found objects. Quoting from an announcement for the Berkeley Art Museum: “Through actions that at times stress the visual, and the violent aspects of social rituals, the British Team of Harry and Harry Kipper perform in a fashion that combines the zany theatrics of Spike Milligan with a scatological slapstick that is all their own”. Demento: Covered in Punk, months before Brian Routh’s death. They reunited as The Kipper Kids in 2018 to perform the song “Mah Nà Mah Nà” for the album Dr. In 1982, they stopped actively collaborating, performing as The Kipper Kids only occasionally until their final performance together at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, in 2003. Despite having studiously avoided being part of a movement, they found themselves associated with the early years of punk in Los Angeles. The Kipper Kids moved to Los Angeles in 1975. In 1974, David Ross, later director of the Whitney Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, saw them in performance at Gallerie Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne and invited them to do some shows in California. įrom 1971 to 1975, most of their performances took place in Europe. Thus the Kipper Kids as Harry Kipper and Harry Kipper were born in 1971. At the same time they decided to make their characters identical. Because neither could ever remember who was Harry and who was Alf, they dropped the name Alf and decided to call each other Harry. When von Haselberg and Routh coined the name Kipper Kids, they were originally called Harry and Alf Kipper and had two distinctly different characters. Upon being expelled for being “too experimental” they took to the road, touring constantly. After months of improvisation they invented a character they called Harry Kipper and began experimenting with different theatrical formats to use him in. Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh met in 1970 at East 15 Acting School. From 1971, the duo were also known as Harry and Harry Kipper. and Routh was living in Leicester, England, at the time of his death from cancer. Von Haselberg lives and works in New York, U.S. The Kipper Kids were a duo composed of Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg (born 20 January 1949) and Brian Routh (9 March 1948 – 3 August 2018), two artists known for the extreme and often comedic performance art they made together in the 1970s and after. The Kipper Kids: von Haselberg (left) and Routh (right)
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