Theo Bamberg

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Tobias Theodore Leendert Bamberg (born July 15, 1875 in Amsterdam , † June 28, 1963 in Chicago ) was a Dutch-American magician with the stage name Okito .

Life

Theo Bamberg came from the Bamberg family , which had produced several generations of magicians, and was already on stage as a boy. His father was David Tobias Bamberg . At the age of eleven, he performed before the royal family. In an accident in 1891, as a young man, he almost completely lost his hearing. Thereupon he took the stage name Okito - an anagram of Tokyo - and from 1893 passed himself off as a Japanese who did not communicate with the public due to ignorance of the European languages. His specialty was the floating ball. He toured numerous European countries and in 1906 China and 1907 the Dutch East Indies.

In 1908 he was hired as a shadow player by Howard Thurston , who had taken over the Kellar Show . He stayed in the United States until around 1920, where he received citizenship in 1916, when he returned to Europe. From 1908 to 1912 the Bamberg Magic and Novelty Company existed in New York City on Broadway (No. 1193).

Theo Bamberg had been married since 1903. In 1938 he traveled to South America to visit his eldest son Fu-Manchu ( David Bamberg ). Besides this son he had another named Donald and a daughter named Dorothy. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands, he did not return to his homeland. In the following decades he stayed mainly in the USA.

Bamberg was buried in Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge , Cook County (Illinois) .

Bamberg today has a place in the Hall of Fame of the Society of American Magicians .

literature

  • Robert J. Albo: Okito and the Bamberg Dynasty. Magic Magazine, February 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zauber.de
  2. ↑ a b c Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.classicmagicseries.com
  3. ↑ http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8710709
  4. ↑ http://www.okito.nl/?q=node/7
  5. ^ Theo Bamberg in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bamberg, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberg, Tobias Theodore Leendert (full name); Okito (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-American magician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1963
Place of death Chicago