Otto Wessely

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Otto Wessely

Otto Wessely (born May 13, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian magician .

Life

From 1963 to 1969 Wessely performed in the Vienna Prater . In 1973 he was committed to the Olympia in Paris for the first time . In 1985 he received a contract for several years in the famous cabaret "Crazy Horse" in Paris.

He frequently writes articles for the French magical magazine "Magicus" and since 2010 his column has been published under the title "Das harte Künstlerleben" in the German magical magical world magazine .

Otto Wessely has lived and worked with his wife in Paris since 1971.

Awards

  • 1971: The British-Ring-Shield, England
  • 1982: 1st Comedy Magic Prize, Lausanne FISM World Magic Championships
  • 2017: Award for life's work at the 41st International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo
  • 2019: Honorary Magica of the Magical Circle of Germany (MZvD) for the magical life's work.

Works

  • Magical World , No. 4, 2005, 54th year.
  • Je suis une star comme tout le monde , autobiography, 2011.
  • I'm a star like everyone else , German edition, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038148-5 .

literature

  • Winkler, Gisela and Dietmar: Otto Wessely , in: Das große Hokuspokus , Henschelverlag, Berlin 1981, p. 532.
  • Rausch, Ulrich: The vaudeville is alive! On the occasion of Otto Wessely's 70th birthday , Aladin , Vienna 2015, issue 3, page 33.
  • Tomic, Manuela: Shrill, loud, magical - the portrait of Austria. Die Zeit - Austria edition, Hamburg, March 9, 2017, page 28.
  • Rausch, Ulrich: The secret of eternal youth - Otto Wessely on his 73rd birthday. In: Magic - The Art of Magic, ISSN  2566-6908 , Hamburg, May 2018, page 219.
  • Rausch, Ulrich: 'I still have life ahead of me' - the great Otto and Christa Wessely interview. In: Magic - The Art of Magic, ISSN  2566-6908 , Hamburg, May 2018, pages 220-224.
  • Rausch, Ulrich: The autobiography and its sequels. In: Magic - The Art of Magic, ISSN  2566-6908 , Hamburg, May 2018, page 225.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US magazine GENII, Vol. 55, no. 11, 1992
  2. ↑ Manuela Tomic: Otto Wessely: Shrill, loud, magical. In: zeit.de. March 13, 2017, accessed June 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.mzvd.de/mzvdnews/details/2019/01/27/ehren-magica-fuer-das-magische-lebenswerk-fuer-christa-otto-wessely.html
personal data
SURNAME Wessely, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian magician
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna