Falko Traber
Falko Traber (born October 13, 1959 in Besançon , France ) is a professional high-wire artist who belongs to the Traber family of artists , who have been performing high-wire artistry without interruption since 1799. Since his birth, Falko Traber has traveled to over 40 countries with his family. On the high wire, Falko Traber has set a large number of world records in recent decades. Since 2002 his story and that of his family can be seen in the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. Falko Traber is the last of his brothers who is still on the tightrope; his brother Charlie Traber died in 2007 at the age of 54.
World records
- In 1978 he spent 216 hours uninterrupted on the high wire in the miniature park Minidomm in Ratingen , beating the previous record by 18 hours. In the same year he was seen in the James Bond film " Moonraker - Top Secret ".
- In 1982, he beat his record for 11 days on the rope in the Alstertal shopping center
- In 1996 he crossed the city of Baden-Baden on foot to set a world record on a 640 meter long and up to 60 meter high wire rope.
- In 1997, in Weil am Rhein, he set another world record for length with a motorcycle on the high wire. Here he covered a distance of 700 meters on the rear wheel of his special Suzuki machine at a height of 80 meters.
- In 1999 he crossed the Zugspitze with a bicycle on a 12 mm thick wire rope. At 600 meters above sea level, he also performed a headstand on the steering fork of his bicycle.
- Another permanent world record followed in 2002. Falko Traber spent 13 days and nights at a height of about 10 meters, i.e. 312 hours without interruption on the high wire. The world record was set in the open air and above a wild animal enclosure with several adult white tigers in the Safariland Stukenbrock .
- In 2004 he crossed the Rhine by bicycle over a distance of 300 m from the church tower Laufenburg (D) to the church tower Laufenburg (CH) at a height of 60 m.
- In 2006 he balanced over the longest, free-hanging cable car in the world - the 3S cable car in Kitzbühel at a height of 412 m.
- 2007 Run on the cable car to the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro
Press articles
- German walks at a height of 400 m - on a rope . In: image . October 1, 2006
- High wire artist creates new world record . In: ORF . October 1, 2006
- Trotter's Ascension. In: mare . No. 39, October 2004
Web links
Commons : Falko Traber (family) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collection guide Baden and Europe 1918 to 2000 of the Badisches Landesmuseum, page 56
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt of July 10, 1978 ( Memento of July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trotter, Falko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon , France |