WORLD CHAMPION: When two sheep disappear from the stage, he conjures his technique to the world championship title | EUROtoday

It was 2001 – and he was ten years previous on the time. Marc Weide drove to Oberhausen along with his mom one night in November to look at the efficiency of US magician David Copperfield. The enviornment, which holds 13,000 spectators, was offered out. Copperfield captivated the viewers. Full of magic, filled with magic.

Marc Weide can nonetheless bear in mind it nicely. Very good, in reality, “because David Copperfield brought me on stage during the show and then disappeared before my eyes. I was completely flooded and completely finished with the world,” says the now 34-year-old Weide within the present episode of the WELT podcast WELTMeister.

Copperfield, Weide remembers, fascinated him a lot that night “that on the drive back I said to my mom: ‘Mom, I’ll do that too when I grow up.'”

Weide saved his phrase. Today he is without doubt one of the most well-known magicians in Germany – and has additionally been capable of name himself world champion since 2018. Even if the trail to the large title wasn’t straightforward. He began within the basic means, he says within the podcast. With card tips. That’s the place you follow your first issues, your first strikes. Then there have been ropes, small balls, large balls – and the magic wand.

“In the beginning it’s all about the security you have to gain. So it’s about learning to either hold the prop firmly in your hand, juggle it or manipulate it,” says Weide. In the start, his mom was all the time the one who introduced each trick, each advance. “She had to do it a lot. I don’t think any woman in her life has heard the phrase ‘can I show you a card trick’ so many times.’ At every family party I pushed two boxes together, stood on them and performed tricks.”

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Willow gets better and better over the years. Develops stage programs for himself. He’s writing a book. Not only does he appear on television, he also moderates the morning magazine “Live after nine” on ARD from March to December 2018. It is the year in which he will take part in the World Cup in South Korea in July. He has ten minutes on stage. Ten minutes to convince eight jury members. With his tricks, with his stage presence, with his show.

Weide has 19 competitions in its Parlor Magic division, which in German is considered salon magic. The starting order is decided by drawing lots, Weide is fourth from last – and is excited. Although he gets the tip not to look at the competition “to drive you even crazier,” he still watches one or two competitors. “Because it does one thing to you. There had been individuals who did actually large issues. Someone appeared earlier than me who merely made two residing sheep seem on the finish.”

Ultimately, Marc Weide was undeterred and secured the world title.