Joe Wildon

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Joe Wildon

Joe Wildon (* July 29, 1922 in Königsberg as Julius Bernhard Wildermann ; † September 27, 2003 in Bad Meinberg ) was a German magician and manufacturer of magic devices, who was one of Germany's leading suppliers of trickery in the 1950s and 60s.

Life

Joe Wildon was originally an administrator. After the war, he founded his specialist magic shop in Bielefeld in 1949. In 1950 he published the first hectographed circulars, which from 1951 were titled “Magical Monthly Letters”. From 1952 the trade journal "Magisches Magazin" developed, which Wildon published until 1961. In 1951 he married. Due to financial problems, Wildon got increasingly into delivery problems in the early 1970s. In 1976 he closed his company without notice and moved to England. Here he trained as a naturopath and worked in this profession until the 1990s. In 1999 he came back to Germany and lived in Bad Meinberg, where he also died.

Publications

  • "Magisches Magazin", magic magazine; it appeared monthly from 1952 to 1957 and quarterly until 1961.
  • "Wildon's Magic Catalog", large jubilee catalog for the tenth anniversary, 1959.
  • "Der Trickspiegel", the publication organ that appeared from 1962 a total of 21 times in professional notebook format (DIN A5).

literature

  • Klaus Bertram : Joe Wildon - encounter with a magic legend. In: Magical World . 51st year, issue 6, December 2002, p. 685 f.
  • Joe Doran : In Memorian Joe Wildon. In: Magical World . 52nd volume, issue 6, December 2003, p. 338.
  • Herbert von der Linden : I lost a friend - on the death of Joe Wildon. In: magic . Volume 83, issue 12, December 2003, p. 587.
  • Stephan Oettermann , Sibylle Spiegel: Bio-Bibliographisches Lexikon der Zauberkünstler. 4500 cup players, escamoteurs, manipulators, cardsharps, illusionists and experimenters, escape artists and quick-change artists, paper tearing artists and hand shadow players, fakirs, sword swallowers, fire and hunger artists, arithmetic and mnemonics, ventriloquists and voice imitators, magicians, musicians and phantasms , Hypnotists and telepaths. Edition Huber, Offenbach am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921785-86-3 , p. 370.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journal DM No. 27, July 1, 1956, article “DM betrays magicians” p. 18: Wildon has the largest range of all.
  2. ↑ a b c Statement of the daughter at the 22nd German historians and collectors meeting in Nottuln / Münster Westphalia, 2012
  3. ↑ see archive sic-verlag, Münster
personal data
SURNAME Wildon, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wildermann, Julius Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German magician, inventor, manufacturer and dealer of magical articles, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2003
Place of death Bad Meinberg