The great Alex Weyer:
A Lux­em­bour­gish magician
The pre­sen­ta­tion takes you on the fas­ci­nat­ing jour­ney of Alex Wey­er, born Jean-Pierre Deck­er in Mon­ner­ich, Lux­em­bourg in 1872. He emi­grat­ed with his fam­i­ly to the Unit­ed States, where he began his career in New York and became a close friend of Har­ry Hou­di­ni. His ded­i­ca­tion and tal­ent led him to tour Europe and per­form at famous venues such as the Moulin Rouge in Paris. The pre­sen­ta­tion con­cludes with some well-known magi­cians such as René Breck­ler, Jer­ry Dar­nelle and Per­ol and high­lights the found­ing of an asso­ci­a­tion known today as the Mag­i­ca Club Lux­em­bourg, which is still com­mit­ted to pre­serv­ing the art of mag­ic today.

Véronique Faber has been research­ing and writ­ing about the his­to­ry of mag­ic for many years. In 2012, she pub­lished a biog­ra­phy enti­tled ‘The Great Alex Wey­er’, which deals with the life and career of the famous magi­cian. She is cur­rent­ly work­ing at the Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary and Dig­i­tal His­to­ry (C²DH) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lux­em­bourg, where she is writ­ing her doc­tor­al the­sis on the transna­tion­al his­to­ry of the Schue­ber­fouer from 1945 to 1975.

The Mag­i­ca Club is a non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion that brings togeth­er magi­cians from Luxembourg.
The club was found­ed on 11 March 1998. The pur­pose of the club is to pro­mote Lux­em­bour­gish magi­cians and the art of mag­ic in gen­er­al. In 2003, the club joined the Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Mag­i­cal Soci­eties (FISM).
Since 1998, an annu­al mag­ic fair with a youth com­pe­ti­tion and a grand gala evening with inter­na­tion­al and nation­al magi­cians has been organised.