Camillio Mayer - Revision history

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-[[File:Camilla_Mayer-Hempel.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Ruth Hempel (Camilla Mayer II) (1948)]]In 1934, [[Lotte Witte]] (1918-1940), a sixteen-year-old pretty brunette, joined Camilio's troupe. She was born in 1918 in Stettin, Germany (today Szczecin, in Poland), the daughter of a plumber. Fearless, attractive, and very talented, she soon became the troupe's main drawing card. Camilio fell for her, and he gave her as a "nom-de-scène" not only his family name, but also his first name: Lotte became known as [[Camilla Mayer]].
+[[File:Camilla_Mayer-Hempel.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Ruth Hempel (Camilla Mayer II) (1948)]]In 1934, [[Lotte Witte]] (1918-1940), a sixteen-year-old pretty brunette, joined Camilio's troupe. She was born in 1918 in Stettin, Germany (today Szczecin, in Poland), the daughter of a plumber. Fearless, attractive, and very talented, she soon became the troupe's main drawing card. Camilio fell for her, and he gave her as a "nom-de-scène" not only his family name, but also his first name: Lotte became known as [[Camilla Mayer]].
 In 1936, when the troupe performed outdoors in the popular seaside resort of Atlantic City, in the United States, Lotte made the headlines performing on a fifty-three-meter-high (175 feet) swaypole, a daring feat that was heralded as a world record. Sadly, it was with a lesser feat that Lotte-Camilla lost her life on January 20, 1940, when her much shorter twenty-meter swaypole brole during a performance of the ''Menschen-Tiere-Sensationen'' show at the [[Deutschlande Halle]] in Berlin.

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−	Insofar as high wire artists go, the most widely known are perhaps [[The Wallendas]]. Yet, even if the original troupe of Karl and Herman Wallenda, Helen Kreis, and Joe Geiger, presented one of the best high wire acts in the business between the two World Wars and in the two decades following WWII, they belonged to a generation that had been particularly rich in outstanding German high-wire artists—among whom the most notable were undoubtedly ~~the~~ [[Triska ~~Family~~]], and ''The Napoléon of The Skies'', Camillio Mayer.	+	Insofar as high wire artists go, the most widely known are perhaps [[The Wallendas]]. Yet, even if the original troupe of Karl and Herman Wallenda, Helen Kreis, and Joe Geiger, presented one of the best high wire acts in the business between the two World Wars and in the two decades following WWII, they belonged to a generation that had been particularly rich in outstanding German high-wire artists—among whom the most notable were undoubtedly [[The Triska Troupe]], and ''The Napoléon of The Skies'', Camillio Mayer.

	Camillio (also spelled Camilio) Mayer (1890-1972) is sometimes referred to as a French wirewalker, since his German citizenship was only the result of political circumstances: He was born April 25, 1890 in what was then Mülhausen (today Mulhouse) in Alsace, which had become part of the German Empire after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. However, to the French, Alsace was a region that never ceased to be French, and was due to return sooner or later to the motherland—and French-born Alsatians continued to consider themselves French, ethnically at the very least. (Indeed, Alasce returned to France after the signature of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.)		Camillio (also spelled Camilio) Mayer (1890-1972) is sometimes referred to as a French wirewalker, since his German citizenship was only the result of political circumstances: He was born April 25, 1890 in what was then Mülhausen (today Mulhouse) in Alsace, which had become part of the German Empire after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. However, to the French, Alsace was a region that never ceased to be French, and was due to return sooner or later to the motherland—and French-born Alsatians continued to consider themselves French, ethnically at the very least. (Indeed, Alasce returned to France after the signature of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.)

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-[[File:Camilla_Mayer-Hempel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ruth Hempel (Camilla Mayer II) (1948)]]In 1934, [[Lotte Witte]] (1918-1940), a sixteen-year-old pretty brunette, joined Camilio's troupe. She was born in 1918 in Stettin, Germany (today Szczecin, in Poland), the daughter of a plumber. Fearless, attractive, and very talented, she soon became the troupe's main drawing card. Camilio fell for her, and he gave her as a "nom-de-scène" not only his family name, but also his first name: Lotte became known as [[Camilla Mayer]].
+[[File:Camilla_Mayer-Hempel.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Ruth Hempel (Camilla Mayer II) (1948)]]In 1934, [[Lotte Witte]] (1918-1940), a sixteen-year-old pretty brunette, joined Camilio's troupe. She was born in 1918 in Stettin, Germany (today Szczecin, in Poland), the daughter of a plumber. Fearless, attractive, and very talented, she soon became the troupe's main drawing card. Camilio fell for her, and he gave her as a "nom-de-scène" not only his family name, but also his first name: Lotte became known as [[Camilla Mayer]].
 In 1936, when the troupe performed outdoors in the popular seaside resort of Atlantic City, in the United States, Lotte made the headlines performing on a fifty-three-meter-high (175 feet) swaypole, a daring feat that was heralded as a world record. Sadly, it was with a lesser feat that Lotte-Camilla lost her life on January 20, 1940, when her much shorter twenty-meter swaypole brole during a performance of the ''Menschen-Tiere-Sensationen'' show at the [[Deutschlande Halle]] in Berlin.

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 World War II was evidently another difficult period for Camillio Mayer. If the first years of the war were generally euphoric on the German side, it quickly changed after the Americans entered the conflict. The Allies began to gain momentum in 1942-1943 and, in the turmoil that ensued, Camillio Mayer lost his troupe and his equipment. Finally, at the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russian troupes.
-Yet, if anything, Camillio Mayer was a resourceful man. He had learned several languages in his many travels, and beside French and German, he spoke English, Italian, and Russian; while prisoner of the Russians in Kranichfeld, he worked as an interpreter for his captors, which indeed considerably improved his condition. And as he had done before, he eventually escaped...
+[[File:Camilio_Mayer_Troupe.jpg|thumb|left|400px|The Camillio Mayer Troupe in 1945]]Yet, if anything, Camillio Mayer was a resourceful man. He had learned several languages in his many travels, and beside French and German, he spoke English, Italian, and Russian; while prisoner of the Russians in Kranichfeld, he worked as an interpreter for his captors, which indeed considerably improved his condition. And as he had done before, he eventually escaped...
 The war over, he went to Stedten an der Ilm, where he began to train young wirewalkers—among whom his wife-to-be, Annemarie Füldner. In 1945, he revived the Camillio Mayer Troupe, which began working outdoors, and then, when circuses hit the road again, in the ring&mdash;notably with the new [[Circus Sarrasani]], after it had been resuscitated by [[Fritz Mey]] in 1956. Camillio was indeed the manager of his troupe, but he appeared only occasionally in the act.