Harold von Braunhut sells X-ray glasses for dry water crabs and see-through. Nothing really works, but von Braunhut is a Jedi sales master. After his death, his widow lost everything - even the "sea monkeys".
Harold von Braunhut made a fortune with children's toys for just a few pennies. He made brilliant inventions such as X-ray glasses.
Braunhuts' biggest innovation is the "amazing living sea monkeys." These amazing aquatic creatures are placed in a dry bag and revived by young buyers in a small plastic aquarium. In the 70s of the 20th century, almost every magazine ran an advertisement for this miracle. In the paintings, the sea monkeys lead idyllic family lives – just as Fred Feuerstein's home is underwater.
In fact, they are quite nondescript mini shrimp. If everything is done correctly, dry powder will actually produce live crabs, but it certainly won't play the role of an American family underwater. Otherwise the person is busy. From a television producer to an art fair manager, there's little he can't try. He even competed in motorcycle races under the name "Green Wasp". However, his political views are right-wing and racist. Even of Jewish descent, he said that Hitler was not a bad person at all.
In the 60s of the 20th century, Braunhut met Yolanda Signorelli at her father's ball. The most beautiful of Signorelli's five daughters was a special type of movie star at the time. Yolanda has been featured in works such as Venus in Fur, All Women Are Spoiled, and The Death of the Nebuta.
Sales genius
Braunhoot's inventions were successful not because they were too original, but because Braunhut was a master of marketing. The New York Times (NYT) called him a Jedi sales guru and wrote that he brought the tactics of carnival charlatans into the television era. He learned the craft as a stage magician.
He sells small crabs on TV shows. At the time, it was fashionable to move an old American model family and bungalow to a completely unfamiliar environment - in the Stone Age, in the jungle or in space. Von Braunhoot even managed to sell an empty cup as a stealth goldfish.
The palace was in ruins
But after the death of von Braunhoot, his empire collapsed, and Signorelli inherited his property and the rights to the "sea monkeys", which remained profitable. But she soon lost her property. Signorelli licensed the Sea Monkey to a large toy company, and a few years later, they dissolved the company. Whether this is due to the malicious nature of the company or the widow's eccentric business practices, opinions are not consistent. Harold von Braunhut has always claimed that his monkey is a unique invention that he created with a partner through intensive breeding. Normal crayfish will not survive the long, apparent state of death between manufacturing, transportation, and cleaning at the customer's site.
Without the magic of the playground magician, the glory of the good days is gone. When contacted by The New York Times, Signorelli was living in the only habitable room in her sprawling mansion — no electricity or heating.
Even the former "Venus in Fur" is still an impressive figure. The writer of the New York Times was surprised by her looks. The 70-something man looked dozens of years younger.