With
more than 225 shows a year Jesper Grønkjær is one of the busiest family
entertainers in Denmark. He has received both awards and scholarships for his
work with humor and comedy.
In
almost 20 years Jesper has made his professional living as a magician.
Besides
his magic family entertainment at summer parties, circuses, schools, libraries
among other places, Jesper performs his One Man Show for adults, for example
when entertainment is required at companies, receptions and weddings.
Furthermore the last 15 years Jesper has been
working for a large international company, for which he acts as a well-known
character. Moreover he entertains for some of Scandinavia's largest companies.
Alongside
his work as a magician, Jesper works as an actor, a freelance journalist, he
gives lectures about his travel-experiences and among other things he is an
instructor at a guideschool in Spain.
In
the recent years Jesper has been known in the medias as the magician, who has
been on some quite crazy expeditions. Expeditions where Jesper and a team
of helpers has brought the old,
legendary magic suitcase to some of the worlds furthest corners. For instance
on a raft on the Amazon River to get to the River Indians, who live in Peru,
into the Andes Mountains to visit the descendants of the Inkas, to the Masai
Warriors in Tanzania, orphanages in Uganda, through swamps and rainforest to
visit the last living cannibals in the jungle of Irian Jaya and to the Ice Cap
of Greenland.
In
all of these remote places Jesper has performed in front of the gaping locals,
who sometimes have screamed with laughter or other times have been hiding in the
jungle from this weird, white medicineman, who suddenly has appeared out of
nowhere. As a contrast to these more primitive expeditions, he has also
performed in Las Vegas, has attended Drag Shows in night clubs in New York and
furthermore acted as a cowboy in saloons in Texas. He has also given shows to
prostitutes in The Caribbean and in Cuba, Bali and in the south of Europe.
Jesper
uses the expeditions in his lectures, in his articles and on danish television.
Jesper
is a member of the Travelers Guild of Denmark (De berejstes klub) and The
Adventurer's Club of Denmark (Eventyrernes Klub). He has recently received the
Folkersen-award for his borderline work from traveling the world.
