Hans Moretti

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Hans Moretti on his 75th birthday, his daughter Nicole on his left, the magician Paul Potassy on his right

Hans Moretti (bourgeois Hans Cewe , born July 24, 1928 in Beckersdorf , East Galicia , Poland today: Ukraine ; † March 12, 2013 in Dillingen / Saar ) was a German magician . He lived in Dillingen / Saar.

Life

Hans Moretti came from Beckersdorf in East Galicia, a German colony founded in 1784 near Pidhajzi . The place on the bank of the Koropez River is now called Yustynivka and belongs to Ukraine. As an ethnic German, Cewe left his home village with his family after the Hitler-Stalin Pact and moved back to Germany. There he met his future wife Helga and settled in Landsweiler-Reden . In 1944, Moretti faced the choice of a civil servant career in the middle service, but opted for a career as a magician.

Moretti won first prizes twice in a row at the World Conventions of Magic in Vienna in 1976 and Brussels in 1979, he made 18 entries in the Guinness Book of Records , received the Masters Fellowship Award from the Academy of Magical Arts and was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. His autobiography was published in 1997 by Möwe-Verlag . His last appearance was on New Year's Eve 2006 in Warnemünde . He ended his active career as a magician after contracting Alzheimer's .

His three children Hans Moretti junior, Peter Moretti and daughter Nicole Moretti carry on his memory and also appear as magicians.

literature

  • Hans Moretti and Ha. A. Mehler: Moretti - a magical career . Möwe-Verlag, Idstein 1997, ISBN 3-925127-73-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World famous magician Hans Moretti is dead .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saarbrücker Zeitung, March 14, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de  
  2. ^ Early History leading to the Emigration of the Palatinate Settlers into Bukowina and the New World.
  3. ↑ Major Villages around Pidhaytsi.
  4. ↑ a b c Johannes Werres: "It was a complete package" . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . March 15, 2013, p. B3 .
personal data
SURNAME Moretti, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cewe, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German magician
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckersdorf , Eastern Galicia
DATE OF DEATH 12th March 2013
Place of death Dillingen / Saar