Friday, February 24, 2012

From Don Covington

Holzmair by bucklesw1
Holzmair, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Hi Buckles,

The French circus site aucirque.com published this photo. It shows Frederic Edelstein, who presents a mixed cat act with 16 animals on Cirque Pinder sharing the cage with his lion Clarence and legendary cat trainer Wolfgang Holzmair. When Holzmair visited the show, Edelstein said that the Wolfgang was his "idol".

Posted by Buckles at 2/24/2012 05:46:00 AM

4 comments:

Wade G. Burck said...

Buckles,
Wolfgang is a lot of feline trainer's idol. Nobody pulled off the "Quo Vadis" gladiator look with as much authenticity and class as Mr. Holtzmair(how about Josip's sorry attempt. :) A crazier, wilder, faster moving lioness act you will ever see. If you ever had the once in a life time honor of witnessing Gebel, Holtzmair, and Baumann, who wouldn't want to be a circus cat trainer? I did, and I'll never forget it as long as I live.

Wade Burck

24 February, 2012 08:11
Chic Silber said...

It's great to see him looking so

good & robust after all this time

He was also 1 of the nicest folks

A true gladiator who disproved

the old joke sports score of

"Lions 3 Christians Nothing"

24 February, 2012 09:37
Frank Ferrante said...

Well said, Wade! (Where's my handshake and sno-cone?) ~frank

Chic - He was VERY nice, as long as you didn't ask him to let Sylvana go to Disneyland with you!

24 February, 2012 12:07
GaryHill said...

He does look good, I do have an autographed photo of one of his young cats he signed..treasure!!

24 February, 2012 23:51

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