Fritz Strobl (magician)

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Fritz Strobl (* in the 20th century; died before 1961) was an Austrian actor and magician who briefly provoked a great deal of media interest with a card trick.

Act

Before and after the Second World War, Strobl was an actor in Vienna, at the Theater für 49 , at the Theater in der Josefstadt , in the cabaret literature in the Moulin Rouge and on the Renaissance stage .

Later he turned to the art of magic and especially telepathic experiments. He was married to the widow von Hausner, who was considered an Austrian Hanussen in Austria .

On November 29, 1950, Strobl presented a performance in the Munich Hotel Regina in which, among other things, he asked a spectator to choose a playing card. A radio was then switched on, in which the current news could be heard. While the speaker was reading the reports, he paused for a moment and said: "Regina - Karo Dame", only to remain drenched in sweat. At that time there was a young employee of the Bavarian Radio, Joachim Fuchsberger, in an adjoining room . The unit manager immediately sent Fuchsberger to the broadcasting room to have the other messages read out. This was the beginning of Fuchsberger's career, as he later told himself.

The story aroused great public interest and was put on the front page of No. 51, December 17, 1950, by the illustrated magazine Quick . Further reports appeared in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit .

The bribed news anchor Dieter Elwenspoek was later sentenced to three weeks in prison for gross nonsense.

swell

  • Telepathy by telephone , in: Magische Welt , Heft 3, 1966, Seite 89
  • Zeitschrift für Anomalistik, Volume 3, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene, 2003, page 16

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Mention in the association organ of the Magical Circle of Germany Magic, issue 1.1961, page 14
  2. ↑ Interview with Joachim Fuchsberger in: Magische Welt, Issue 4, 2011, page 178
  3. ^ Message in Der Spiegel, January 28, 1959, page accessed on June 12, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Strobl, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and magician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH before 1961