Ted Lesley

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Ted Lesley (born August 1, 1937 in Düren as Friedrich Karl Helzel , † October 24, 2008 in Berlin) was a German magician , mentalist and author .

Life

As a schoolboy he came into contact with magic. At the request of his parents, he first had to complete vocational training. He became an accountant. It was not until the late 1960s that he became increasingly interested in the art of magic. In 1974 he got his first professional engagement at the industrial fair in Hanover . Shortly afterwards he got the chance to play in the evening broadcast on WDR in the TV series A Touch of Magic , which increased his level of awareness. Here he was among other things partner of Vivi Bach .

Lesley published around 80 articles in the journal Magische Welt , in which he largely described his own creations, which he later summarized and supplemented in his book Mental Mind Up . It was published in English in 1996 under the title Ted Lesley's Paramiracles . From 1997 to 1998 he published his own specialist periodical, Mind & Magic Magazin , of which 10 issues appeared.

In 1979, Lesley acted as a trick consultant for the actor Alan Arkin in the Israeli-German-Canadian film The Magician of Lublin ("The Magician"). In the same year, he gained national attention with an appearance on the ZDF show Der große Preis , in which he announced that he wanted to burst a lightbulb with the power of thought. The feat failed, however.

In 1995, ZDF produced a 30-minute portrait of Ted Lesley in the TV series 37 Grad .

Act

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Ted Lesley invented some tricks relevant to magic.

  • Teleport Envelope, 1988
  • Disappearing TV, 1988
  • The Working Performers Marked Deck, 1991

Publications

  • Mental Mind Up, Munich 1992
  • Entertaining Close-Up Mentalism for Professional Performers, Berlin 1993
  • Ted Lesley's Paramiracles, Strasbourg 1996
  • It's Paramiraculous, Berlin 1997
  • Impossibilities 1998, Berlin 1998

literature

  • Perkeo: Lesley . Self-published, Berlin 2019, without ISBN

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview in the journal Magische Welt, issue 4, 1979
  2. ^ Ted Lesley, Pet Mind-Reading Stunts, Hamburg, 2009, p. 14
  3. ↑ Interview in the journal Magische Welt, issue 4, 1979
  4. ^ Wim Thoelke, Stars, Kollegen und Ganoven, Verlag Lübbe, ISBN 3-7857-0786-X , p. 277 ff
personal data
SURNAME Lesley, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helzel, Friedrich Karl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German magician and mentalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2008
Place of death Berlin