Simon Pierro

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Simon Pierro (2011)

Simon Pierro (born October 2, 1978 in Ettlingen ) is a German magician , moderator and speaker , internationally known as "the iPad magician".

Life

Pierro, who grew up in Waldbronn and now lives in Munich , said he discovered his passion for magic at the age of 15 when he was cheated out of $ 20 while playing a shell game in New York City and his sister wrote a book about magic to him - and gave card tricks.

Pierro's presentations contain modern elements of pop culture and are far removed from the cliché of the “magician with tailcoat and top hat”. His stage show The American Dream, developed with director Eberhard Riese, brought him a number of awards in the art of magic. In 2002, the Magic Circle of Germany voted him Magician of the Year. He was u. a. German champion and vice world champion of FISM . In 2004 he was presented with the Siegfried & Roy Award in Las Vegas .

Shortly after completing his degree in industrial engineering in 2004 at the University of Karlsruhe , Pierro was discovered by Frank Elstner in the program “People of the Week” for the Saturday evening format “Do you understand fun?”, In which he received his own section as a magical decoy and up played his magic pranks in over twenty episodes today. In addition to other TV appearances for ARD , ZDF , RTL and ProSieben , he also acts as a consultant behind the camera and, among other things, developed an illusion for Heidi Klum's “ Germany's Next Top Model ”.

Since 2008 he has devoted himself increasingly to digital magic, a combination of magic and technical innovations. His demonstrations on his YouTube channel reached over 50 million viewers and was the first German magician to be invited to present his tricks in an Apple Store.

In February 2015 he appeared on the US talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show . The video has been viewed over 20 million times.

Since 2016 he has been a speaker and keynote speaker on the topic of digitization.

TV appearances (selection)

  • Do you understand fun? (ARD, since 2004, over 20 missions as a magical decoy)
  • Incredible (RTL, 2008)
  • Galileo Mystery (Pro Sieben, 2007)
  • ZDF television garden (ZDF, 2009-2011)
  • Frank Elstner - People of the Week (SWR, 2004, 2011)
  • Le Plus Grand Cabaret Du Monde (France 2, 2003, 2011)
  • TV Total (2014)
  • Markus Lanz (2015)
  • 5 against Jauch (2015)
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2015)
  • NBC Today Show (2015)
  • Wall Street Journal Lunch Break (2015)
  • RTL Late Night (2015)
  • Penn & Teller: Fool Us (Netflix, 2015)
  • Hatch! The Great Night Show (2019)
  • Do you understand fun? (2019)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mage of the Year 2002
  2. ↑ a b Vice World Champion General Magic on FISM
  3. ↑ Blog entry about Germany's Next Topmodel
  4. ↑ a b Appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on YouTube
  5. ↑ Appearances on Do you understand fun? on Youtube
personal data
SURNAME Pierro, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German magician and moderator
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Ettlingen , Germany