Max Schreyer (Artist)

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Max Schreyer
September 23, 1906: Schreyer before jumping into a pool of water in the Paris Buffalo Velodrome

Max Schreyer , also AM Schreyer or Daredevil Schreyer (* before 1888 ; † 30th or 31st May 1919 in New York ) was an American cyclist and bike Artist .

Life

Max Schreyer was initially active as a cyclist; he started mainly in the endurance disciplines on the track . In 1898 he took part in the six-day race in Madison Square Garden , which at that time was still contested individually by the drivers.

After participating in the six-day race, Schreyer got the idea to present the audience with a new spectacular number. This should be fundamentally different from driving a loop or the death ring (a kind of very steep cycling track ). By 1919 Daredevil (the devil guy) Schreyer traveled the world to perform Down the Chute . He was riding a bicycle at high speed down a 70 meter long ramp. At the end of the upturned, 30-meter-high ramp, he let go of the bike and flew 30 meters through the air to land in a basin that was filled with water to a height of 1.50 meters. He showed this number for the first time in June 1906 in Tourcoing .

Schreyer was advertised as “the greatest sensation on earth”, and he himself also called his performance “saut du diable” (“devil's jump”). He has made guest appearances in Paris , London and New York , among others . We have survived a photo from 1905 when he performed his number at the Carmarthen Park Velodrome in Wales . On September 23, 1906, he appeared in the Paris Buffalo Velodrome . On November 20, 1918, Schreyer made a jump across New York's Broadway at 59th Street in aid of the United National War Work . A Salvation Army band played to the accompaniment , while money was collected from the audience.

In summer 1907 Schreyer accompanied the cyclist Louis Mettling on a trip to Germany. Mettling fell at the Dresden City Prize and died two weeks later from his injuries, and it was up to Schreyer to inform Mettling's family by telegram: “Our dear Louis died peacefully while sleeping last night. Cable wishes regarding burial. "

In May 1919, Schreyer performed his trick in front of 20,000 spectators in Van Cortlandt Park in New York, including his wife. However, it did not land in the water basin, but next to it. He suffered serious injuries to which he succumbed a few days later at Fordham Hospital .

Most recently Schreyer lived with his family at 278 Palisade Avenue in North Hoboken .

Web links

Commons : Max Schreyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Adrian: Attractions Sensationnelles. Le "Cass-cou" du Cirque et du Music-Hall . Adrian, Bourg-La-Reine 1962, p. 86 .
  2. ^ Keith E. Morgan: Carmarthen Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited, 2016, ISBN 978-1-445-65278-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ New York Times , November 21, 1919
  4. ↑ Andrw M. Homan: Life in the Slipstream. The Legend of Bobby Walthour sr. Potomac Books, Washington DC 2011, pp. 190 .
  5. ^ New York Times , May 31, 1919
personal data
SURNAME Schreyer, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schreyer, AM; Schreyer, Daredevil (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist and cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1919 or May 31, 1919
Place of death new York