Wolf messing was born 10 September 1899 on the territory of the Russian Empire in a tiny Jewish town Mountain-Kalwaria near Warsaw.His family was very devout,and fanatically religious.Father was very strict with his children (except wolf's parents had three more sons)
In early childhood the wolf was sleepwalking,from which it cured in very simple way—trough with cold water,which for some time put by his bed.Getting up at night,wolf got a foot in cold water and woke up.
When the wolf was six years old,he was sent to a heder—a school organized by the Rabbi at the synagogue.The main subject,taught there,was the Talmud,the prayers from which page by page, children learned by heart.The wolf was a great memory,and this lesson—quoting the Talmud—he succeeded.It is this ability was the reason for the meeting with Sholem Aleichem.The General religious atmosphere in the cheder and the house,made the wolf extremely devout,superstitious and nervous boy.
Noting the piety and ability to memorize the prayers of the Talmud,the Rabbi decided to send wolf to a special school that trained clergymen,—yeshibot. The wolf,however,such a prospect is to wear a black dress of a priest—not smiling,and he flatly refused this decision of his fate.He and I argued,then retreated.The boy then witnessed a"miracle"in which for a long time and then believed.
One day the father sent the son into the shop for a packet of cigarettes.The time was evening,the sun had set and dusk was falling.To the porch of his house, the wolf approached in the darkness.And suddenly on the stairs, it grew huge figure in a white robe. The boy saw a huge beard,wide, broad face,remarkably brilliant eyes.Raising his arms in the wide sleeves to the sky,this heavenly messenger said:
"My son! More than I sent to you... to predict your future in the service of God.Go to yeshibot!Will be pleasing to God your prayer
The impression made by this ecstatic vision,nervous,mystically-minded boy,was stunning.He fell to the ground and lost consciousness.When he awoke,he told everything to the father.The impressive coughed,said:
—Because God wants... Well,going to yeshivot?Shaken by this experience,the wolf gave up.
Yeshibot,where he began to learn, was in another city.Thus began the life of a wolf outside the home.In yeshibot boy studied for two years,perhaps even a little bit more time and he would become a Rabbi.But as they say,God works in mysterious ways...
Once in the house of prayer,where he lived at that time, the wolf stopped the wanderer—male giant growth, and athletic.What was the astonishment of the boy when a voice he recognized him as the"messenger of Heaven",who instructed him on behalf of God himself on the path of serving Him.Wolf experienced from this meeting a smaller shock in the first meeting with him.He realized that he just conspired with this crook,maybe even paid him to have played a role.All this was done with one purpose—to wolf went to study in yeshivot!For a teenager opening for such a lie it was very painful,and he decided to leave yeshibot.To return to the deceived father it is impossible for him,and the wolf decided 6ежать.
With capital of nine cents, he went for the nearest railway station,sat in half-empty wagon of the first train and climbed under the bench,as the ticket had not been.As it turned out,this train was going to Berlin.The conductor came into the carriage to check tickets,I noticed the boy under the bench and asked him for the ticket. You can imagine the state of the wolf at this critical moment for him. His nerves were on edge.He reached out and grabbed something lying on the floor a piece of paper.Their eyes met.All the force of passion and crazy wolf wanted to the conductor took the dirty piece of paper for the ticket... the Conductor took the paper and turned it over in his hands,then stuck it in a heavy jaw punch and snapped them. Stretching back to the wolf"the ticket,"he said to the boy:
—Why are you the ticket—and under the bench going?There are also places...it's in Warsaw...
So,in a moment of maximum emotional stress,for the first time showed the ability of the film to suggestion.
Arriving in Berlin,wolf got a job as a messenger for the house visitors to Dragonstrike. He carried items, packages,washed dishes,shined shoes.Subsequently,remembering his life,messing said it was probably the most difficult time in his life.He is constantly hungry,because he earned very little.All would have ended,possibly very tragic,if not the case...
One day he was sent with a package in one of the suburbs.Directly on Berlin pavement, he fell, faint from hunger. He was brought to the hospital.Faint not passed.Pulse and wasn't breathing,the body was cold.Wolf moved to the morgue. There's a student happened to notice that the heart of the boy's still beating.
In the mind of the wolf brought on the third day Professor Abel.It was a brilliant psychiatrist and neurologist,who enjoyed fame in their circles.Abel explained to the wolf that he was in a state of lethargy caused by anemia,exhaustion,nervous shocks. Abel,to his surprise,discovered that the wolf is able to fully control his body and called it"an amazing medium.
Abel began to put Messing with the experiments.First of all he tried to instill in the boy a sense of confidence in their own strength,told him that he can order everything that you want.
Together with his friend and colleague Professor-psychiatrist Schmitt Abel began to conduct experiments of suggestion with the boy.These people,with smiles of Abel,he considered himself messing,and he began to smile,life.
Abel introduced the film and with his first Manager—Mr. download the film beautiful and representative man of 35.He immediately gave messing in Berlin PANOPTICON.Weekly Friday morning,before the open gates of the freak show,wolf lay in a crystal coffin and put himself into a cataleptic state.In this state for three days—from morning till evening—it had to be done still.In appearance of the film it was impossible to distinguish from the dead.
In the PANOPTICON, she worked for more than six months.That means about three months of his life he lay in a transparent coffin cold.Paid for such work five brands in the day—fabulous for him at that time, the amount.
Wolf messing finished his life honored artist of the RSFSR.His performances have always been a great entertainment and artistry present at them all the time people were in a state of continuous stress,empathize everything that happens to the subjects,who were on the scene.The room literally froze,there was complete silence when the famous actor was doing the hard job of the audience.
His last performance took place in Moscow in the cinema "October" in 1974, this evening, wolf messing was,as they say,in"blow"—all experiments were performed them flawlessly.Soon this amazing man did not...
