Fredo Raxon

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Fredo Raxon (right) with Richard Hatch, 2003

Fredo Raxon (born July 24, 1923 in Leipzig as Fritz Frackmann ; † December 15, 2008 in Königstein im Taunus ) was a German magician and stage pocket thief.

Live and act

The beginnings

He was the third son of his mother Magdalene de Planque and his father Curt "Fracka" Frackmann. The eldest brother Gerhard, from his mother's first marriage, was a photographer like his grandfather Maximilian de Planque, who was known as the “Imperial Court Photographer”.

Fritz Frackmann went to secondary school in Leipzig and, after he had passed secondary school, began a commercial apprenticeship with the photographer Karl Herman Pinkau in Leipzig (son of Karl Pinkau ).

Fritz had already started doing magic at the age of 12. One day his father took him to the fairground, where the "Cumberland Show" was playing. Its director, Curt Vogt, became Fritz's first magic teacher, albeit with a little reluctance. It wasn't until Vogt's medium, Käthe Bley alias “Magneta, the floating riddle”, stood up for Fritz that magic lessons began. The next teacher was then Fredo Marvelli .

Wartime

In 1941 Fritz Frackmann was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the age of 19 and had to take part in the 1941 Russian campaign , which in 1944 earned him a five-year Soviet prisoner-of-war near Novgorod on Lake Ilmen . On the one hand, he survived this thanks to his magic , which he had to show again and again in the hospital , but on the other hand, the Russians kept him with them longer precisely because they liked the magic so much that Fritz Frackmann did Could keep fellow campers happy. He was on the returnees list a total of eight times before he was finally released in 1949. Fritz Frackmann couldn't help but steal the pocket watch from the commandant of the hospital - it's the only one he didn't return.

After Fritz Frackmann returned home from the war, he and his brother Hans were to take over the father's business, hotel silver and porcelain. But since expropriation in Leipzig was foreseeable soon, he decided to turn his hobby magic into a profession.

The professional artist

In 1955, Fredo Raxon, as he now called himself, left East Germany - as an artist he had the freedom to travel. His wife - they married on November 16, 1954 - followed with a trailer. The first stop was Düsseldorf. In 1958 they lived in Ratingen and in 1961 in Leverkusen. Still in the trailer. In 1964, Fredo Raxon bought the first condominium in Cologne. In 1968 they moved to Königstein, where Fredo Raxon lived until his death.

His best-known magic students include the American magician Richard Hatch and the Germans Ted Lesley and Wittus Witt .

In 1966 he went on a tour of Germany with Heinz Erhardt .

TV shows

Fredo Raxon was a guest on several TV shows: on the Mike Molto show , and on TV dance teacher couple Fern in the show: Do you allow ? He taught the actor Til Schweiger magic tricks for a film.

Creations

  • Master Billet Move (video plus instructions in English)
  • Coin roll

swell

  • Magische Welt, No. 4, 2003, 52nd year, page 186
  • Magical World, No. 3, 2005, Volume 54, Page 136
  • Magical World, No. 1, 2009, Volume 58, Page 40
  • Fredo Raxon in the Zauber-Pedia

proof

  1. ↑ Personalities, Verlag Detlef Hartung, 2013, page 3
  2. ↑ Personalities, Verlag Detlef Hartung, 2013, page 5
  3. ↑ Magische Welt , No. 3, 1978, 22nd year, page 168
  4. ↑ Personalities, Verlag Detlef Hartung, 2013, page 11
  5. ↑ Personalities, Verlag Detlef Hartung, 2013, page 15
  6. ↑ Magical World, Volume 3, 1986, Volume 25, Page 196
  7. ↑ Magische Welt, No. 6, 2010, 59th volume, page 252
  8. ^ Dancing Sticks, exhibition brochure, page 16, ISBN 978-3-00-048883-2
  9. ↑ Personalities, Verlag Detlef Hartung, 2013, page 4
  10. ↑ Magische Welt, No. 2, 2002, Volume 51, Page 442
  11. ↑ Magische Welt, No. 5, 2003, 52nd volume, page 275

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personal data
SURNAME Raxon, Fredo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frackmann, Fritz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German magician and stage pocket thief
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2008
Place of death Königstein im Taunus