Tony Rei
Tony Rei , bourgeois Anton Heinrich Reisner , (born October 23, 1957 in Schwarzenbach , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian magician and illusionist .
Life
Rei has been doing magic since he was 15; he was a student of Fritz Lisetti and Bobby Lugano , among others . At the age of 17 he was a co-founder of the magic club IBM-Ring Austria , a local representative of the International Brotherhood of Magicians . His first major stage appearance was in 1976 in the Vienna Hofburg. In 1977 he founded the “Magicians' Ball” in Vienna and in 2002 exported it to Monaco. From 1979 to 1983 he organized the "Magic and Illusions" stage at the Vienna City Festival. In May 1986 he awarded Siegfried and Roy the "Golden Merit of Magic" at the Magicians' Ball . His career was interrupted for several years in November 1987 by a car accident. In 1991 Tony Rei was elected Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. As an actor and presenter, Rei appeared at the Winnetou Festival in Staatz, at the Volksoper Vienna , at the Theater in der Josefstadt , at the Bregenz Festival and in numerous television programs.
Tony Rei is chairman of the Wiener Naturwacht and is committed to animal and nature conservation as well as clean energy.
Awards
- 1983 Guinness Book of Records (59 hours of continuous magic with 1,594 different tricks)
- 1984 world champion in permanent magic
- 1984 world record with 3 floating "virgins" in the sea
- 1987 artist of the year
- 1997 Awarded the Silver Medal of Honor from Vienna
- 2000 Guinness Book of Records
- 2001 Award of the " Golden Town Hall Man "
- 2003 Guinness Book of Records
- 2007 Award of the silver medal of merit from Lower Austria
- 2008 award of the silver medal of merit from Vienna
- 2019 award of the gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
Filmography (selection)
- 1995–1997: Tohuwabohu (TV series)
- 2017: Anna Fucking Molnar
Web links
- Tony Rei's website
- Tony Rei in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ About us , IBM Ring Vienna
- ↑ Ball der Magier 1977 , balldermagier.at
- ↑ a b fire pancakes , Orf.at , September 16, 2004
- ↑ Claudia Richter: Tony Rei: The Survival Artist ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Die Presse , July 18, 2009
- ↑ Now the nature watch also hunts the poachers , Heute.at , April 23, 2014
- ^ First day of the trial in the dispute over endangered ground squirrel , Kurier , August 1, 2014
- ↑ Bernhard Ichner: How the magician Tony Rei wants to move the Ziesel , Kurier , May 21, 2015
- ^ Magician Tony Rei floated from Wiener Windrad , Vienna Online , June 5, 2014
- ↑ Award for Klaus Mühlsiegl and Tony Rei , Press and Information Service of the City of Vienna on ots.at, November 3, 2008
- ↑ Presentation of the decorations in the Lower Austrian Landhaus in St. Pölten - Province of Lower Austria. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rei, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reisner, Anton Heinrich (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian magician and illusionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzenbach , Lower Austria |