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Horn was 75 years old. The coach and his partner Siegfried Fischbacher were world famous for their performances with white tigers and lions.
His doctors called it “a miracle” that Roy Horn survived the serious injuries after his white tiger Mantecore attacked. With one last magic trick, the “Siegfried & Roy” duo finally took their leave of business in March 2009. Horn now died of the consequences of Covid disease 19.
The tamer and wizard, born in Nordenham, near Bremen, celebrated his 59th birthday at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas on October 3, 2003. A few hours later, the dark-haired wizard was seriously injured onstage at the show nightly “Siegfried & Roy”. After severe blood loss, strokes, and brain surgery, she never fully recovered. His former partner, Siegfried Fischbacher, who was born in Rosenheim, became a supervisor.
“I lost my best friend”
Horn now died of Covid-19 lung disease. Horn died in Las Vegas on Friday (local time). He was 75 years old. “Today the world has lost one of the magic giants, but I have lost my best friend,” Fischbacher (80) said in a message.
The tragic tiger accident had forced the award-winning “masters of the impossible” into early retirement; The tricks had excited millions of fans for decades. Roy Horn was paralyzed on one side after the accident.
The artist slowly learned to walk again, albeit slowly and leaning on a stick. In rare public appearances, he was also seen in a wheelchair. In May of last year, the duo visited Siegfried’s home in Munich and Lake Tegernsee. Horn did autologous blood stem cell therapy there. Outside of his Las Vegas foster home, Horn has seen less and less in recent years. On Facebook, he occasionally posted photos of the “Little Bavaria” retirement home outside Las Vegas, a large property with numerous cats and other animals.
Uwe Ludwig Horn, born on October 3, 1944, discovered his love for exotic animals from the beginning. In the post-war years, he fled to a world of animal dreams. A cheetah named “Boy” at the Bremen Zoo became his best friend. After dropping out of school, he hired him as an administrator on a cruise ship, where he met Fischbacher. Together, they played magic and animal tricks through smaller theaters until they made their international breakthrough in Monaco in the 1960s. They first arrived in Las Vegas in 1967, and in 1988 negotiated the largest deal in the city’s history. from the casinos with the Hotel Mirage.
Roy’s love for wildcats continued, even after Mantecore’s attack. He did not blame the white tiger, on the contrary. After the cat’s death in 2014, the trainer wrote on Facebook that his “dear 17-year-old white tiger, friend and brother” had died. “He was the one who took me to safety after I got dizzy on stage because of low blood pressure. He took me out of there so emergency doctors could help me.” Mantecore just wanted to come to his aid and take him away, he said in interviews.
With one last magic trick, the duo finally took their leave of business in March 2009. The magic show at a charity event at the Bellagio Hotel-Casino lasted just ten minutes.
(APA)
