Werner “Werry” Geissler

Some of the self-called “greatest magicians” should desperately try to become Uri’s pupils. From him they could learn how to produce effect, how to accomplish miracles! One can talk and think differently about Uri Geller. But one can’t bypass one fact: The “boy” has ideas – ideas that once changed many people’s, many scientists’ and even some conjurors’ way of thinking. And through his ideas he influenced the conjurors’-tricks scene in many a way. Once I was a fierceful enemy of Geller, when he … let’s forget that. Today – if he goes ahead on the path he now took – I’m at his side!” [Uri und die Zeitmaschine [=Uri and the time-machine]; In: »Magische« Welt, Vol. 40, Nr. 3, September 1991: pp. 243-244.]

Werner “Werry” Geissler, April 13, 1925 – June 19, 2000. Professional magician, magazine editor, dealer and prop maker