Trainer Eder Biography

To indicate the cemetery of the person Eder Boris Afanasevich on July 12, Batum - November 15, Moscow - a circus artist, a trainer, a tamer of predatory animals, the founder of the Soviet school, working with circus predators, the People's Artist of the RSFSR was born in a circus family, during a tour of his parents in Batum, a comb. Batumi, Georgia. From the age of fourteen he performed on the arena: like an acrobat, a voltyzer, then - like an air gymnast.

In G. subsequently worked mainly with lions and tigers, as well as leopards, polar and brown bears, fragmented with elephants and ostriches. He developed the original methodology for training predators and the style of a number in a cage, which formed the basis of the Soviet school of circus dressing, spreading after the xg. The main features of the style of the number: the rejection of the emphasized the danger of a person in a cage, a refusal to play a hostile confrontation of a predator, demonstrative overcoming the wiper of the will of the predator.

Basic principles of training: rejection of animal terrorizing, developing numbers based on natural instincts of the animal. Adaptation of natural reactions and movements of the beast to circus goals, building a contact-predator, remuneration and strict discipline, adoption of the thesis about the individuality of each animal and adjusting the trainer's approaches to each beast Depending on its personal properties.

Eder was the world's first tamer in a cage to abandon the use of a revolver and loud claps with a scourge, sharp screams and strong pain influences on a predator. The main means of controlling the predator became relatively quiet, short commands in the voice and a stick. The number was built as a harmonious interaction of a trainer with predators, and the danger of a trainer’s stay in a cage was not perceived at all or seemed much less to them than in fact.

He used a number of new and unexpected techniques for the public, in particular, he performed, as a rule, in an unexpected suit for the tamer: an ordinary jacket pair with a tie or butterfly. In a number of rooms, he combined the dressing with equiibrics and air gymnastics. For the first time in the world he set numbers with predators built in the form of a story story story. From the end of the x.

It was a unique type of circus activity in its modesty. Eder himself, however, did not consider his position modest and regarded himself as a teacher, organizer and head of the school of Soviet training, and he himself petitioned the authorities to provide young tamers of independent work when he found that under his leadership they learned everything necessary.

In circus circles, he enjoyed great authority, especially in the x. Eder is indirectly considered a teacher of all Soviet and Russian trainers over the past years, since the whole school of circus jackets of predators is built on its methods. He took an active part in the creation of films in which his predators were shot - “Circus”, “Dangerous Trails”, “Timing Tigers”, “Don Quixote”.

In the film "Taming Tigers" in the role of Anton Afanasyevich Telegin played himself. The author of the memoirs "My pets" M. The name is somewhat ironic, since the "pets" can be understood as the animals with which Eder and the trainers worked, whose mentor he became. In addition to biography, the book contains a thorough presentation of the basic principles of dressing developed by Eder, and the methodology for constructing circus numbers with predators.

He was married, had a daughter. He died in Moscow. He was buried in the city of Source: Wikipedia.