Aloys Christof Wilsmann

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Aloys Christof Wilsmann (born April 18, 1899 in Werl , Westphalia, † April 20, 1966 in Nuremberg ) was a German journalist, doctor and amateur magician.

Life

The journalist

After graduating from high school, Aloys Christof Wilsmann studied philosophy, literature, art history, economics and medicine in Marburg and Münster. In Münster he received his doctorate as Dr. med.

After the Second World War he was co-founder and at times editor-in-chief of the illustrated Gong-Funk-Fernsehwelt and the youth magazine Liliput - the happy youth magazine .

In 1960 Wilsmann retired due to health reasons.

The magician

Wilsmann discovered his love of magic as a schoolboy. He has published numerous articles on this in magazines and in the specialist organ of the Magical Circle of Germany . He has often featured magicians in the popular magazines mentioned above. In 1938 he brought out the fundamental work on magic, The Sawed-Up Virgin .

meaning

With his work on magic, published in 1938, Wilsmann compiled a bibliography on German magic books from the 16th to the 20th century for the first time. A work that is still used today as the basis for researching the history of magic.

Article (selection)

  • Simsalabim - The big magic word in Liliput, No. 3, March 1961
  • The Indian rope trick , in Liliput, issue 4, April 1961

Books

  • The Sawed-Up Virgin , 1st edition, 1938
  • Cheerful hunt for question marks, 1st edition, 1940
  • The Sounding Fan, 1940
  • Panoptikum des Wunderlichen, 1st edition, 1941
  • The Sawed-Up Virgin, 2nd edition, 1941
  • Carousel of Love, 1942
  • Panoptikum des Wunderlichen, 2nd edition, 1942
  • A hundred cheerful back lists, 1943
  • Wonder world under the magic hat, 1st edition, 1943
  • The Sawed-Up Virgin, 3rd edition, 1943
  • Wonder world under the magic cap, 2nd edition, 1959

proof

  1. ^ Nürnberger Nachrichten, April 22, 1966
  2. ↑ Imprint Liliput, No. 4, April 1961, p. 47
  3. ^ Magician Punx Gong, No. 29, July 19, 1959
personal data
SURNAME Wilsmann, Aloys Christof
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, physician and amateur magician
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Werl , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1966
Place of death Nuremberg