Early in his life, Annemann began working as a railroad clerk and then got into showbusiness as a tenor singer and a magician's assistant.

Annemann perfected his own version of the famous bullet catch illusion, performing the effect outdoors.

Accounts of his performance describe the feat as a dramatic effect wherein Annemann would collapse from the apparent force of the gun and then produce the bullet from his blood-drenched mouth.

Effects from the magazine have been published in several books and manuscripts, among them Ted Annemann's Practical Mental Magic.

Two weeks before Annemann was scheduled to perform his bullet catch indoors for the first time, he committed suicide.