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Fred Roner

Fred Roner

(Vienna, Austria: 9th March 1905 - New York, US: 14th December 1993)

Fred Roner, born Alfred Rosner in Vienna, was a professional card magician, who later performed a stage pickpocket act, and eventually became a painter. He was particularly known and lauded for his comedic style of card magic. His highlight as a stage pickpocket was to steal the watch of J. Edgar Hoover, the former director of the FBI. Most likely Roner got his start in pickpocketing from Walter Sealtiel, originally a Berlin card magician who gained success with one of the earliest stage pickpockets acts, who settled in The Netherlands, a country Roner spent a good amount of time in after his Jewish background did not afford him performance opportunities in Austria and Germany.

He was the inventor of the card-to-ballon effect which he created for his nightclub act, but Hamburg dealer Janos Bartl quickly sold an unlicensed version. Jerry Andrus included a move by Roner, called the Roner Change, in his Andrus Deals you In, which was later re-invented by Harry Lorayne.

(For more details on Roner see Richard Hatch's biographical article in You Too Are A Card Magician.)

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Auch Sie Sind Kartenkünstler! by Fred Roner

Eine Sammlung von netten Kartenkunststücken des erfolgreichen Wiener Zauberkünstler's Fred Roner. Inkludiert ist ein äußerst interessanter biographischer Artikel über Roner von Richard Hatch.

  • Fred Roner: Kartenkünstler, Bühnentaschendieb, Maler (Richard Hatch)
  • Sie haben dieses Buch gekauft!
  • Die Presse und ich.
  • Kartenraten.
  • Kein Titel?
  • Mit Würfeln und Zündhölzern.
  • Die drei Gerechten.
  • Welche Karte fehlt? (2 Methoden)
  • Ich hab’s ja gewußt!
  • Verschwunden?

Erstausgabe 1929, 16 Seiten; PDF 20 Seiten.

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Fred Roner
You Too Are A Card Magician by Fred Roner

A collection of really nice card tricks that require no sleight-of-hand. Additionally, you will get an informative biographical sketch of Fred Roner written by Richard Hatch.

  • Fred Roner: Card Conjurer, Stage Pickpocket, Painter
  • You have bought this book!
  • The Press and I
  • Guessing of Cards
  • No Title?
  • With dice and matches
  • The three righteous
  • Which card is missing?
  • I knew it!
  • Vanished?

1st German edition 1929, 1st English translation 2022; PDF 20 pages.

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