Magician Siegfried Tieber's Newsletter

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We first met Siegfried Tieber what seems like almost a decade ago — perhaps because it was.

He is a regular fixture at The Magic Castle and a great magician and person. How do we know he is a great person? We were performing in one of the basement rooms and ran over on time because the performer before us ran over on time and that person likely ran over on time because of someone early in the evening who didn’t have a watch.

Siegfried came up to us as we were packing away our messy props and was kind, considerate and patient. He calmly pointed out that we had run overtime and that would likely affect his ability to build a crowd for his act — it was late in the evening. We felt horrible.

He could have yelled or even cursed but he did neither. He acted as a gentleman would. We got the point, felt badly, apologized and he accepted our apology. And that was that.

There are cases where a performer runs long and the act after gets annoyed or offers some snarky comment to their audience about the event. We can’t even blame those performers. It is frustrating when you have the desire to perform and have no time to do it. It’s an itch you just gotta scratch.

All this is to say, we liked Siegfried when we first met him and we still do — perhaps even more.

He is innovative, endearing and charismatic. He is what a magician should be on-stage or off. A class act. He has performed one-man shows and his renown is becoming more renown-ed.

His “Newsletter of Sorts” is a must read here in our single-wide in far eastern Los Angeles County. We look forward to its quirky but always entertaining news and discoveries. We should have written this long ago but we hope you will check out his newsletter by signing up here.

If you haven’t seen Siegfried perform, do yourself a favor on your next visit to The Castle or wherever he may appear. He has wit, skills and charms. Plus he truly a nice guy, even off-stage. This week’s newsletter is a deep dive down the rabbit hole of Rubik’s Cubes. Great reading.