Andino (magician)

Andino (* 23. March 1961 in Büderich as Andreas Michel ) is a German magician , philosopher , educator and author .

biography

Andino grew up in Koblenz. At the age of 10 he gave little magic presentations on the basis of magic boxes. At the age of 13 he joined the Magical Circle in Koblenz and two years later gave a first performance in front of a larger audience at Rothenfels Castle in Spessart. It was first published in 1978 in the trade journal Magische Welt . From 1982 to 1991 he studied Catholic theology, political science, psychology, education and philosophy in Bonn. In the latter he received his doctorate in 1991. This was preceded by diploma degrees in theology and education. As early as 1986 he made magic his profession, but initially financed further studies with it. In 1992 he began a part-time job in adult philosophical education, which was decisive for his later magic philosophy programs. Influenced by Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World) and Marc Sautet (A Café for Socrates), magic and philosophy grew closer and closer together. In various programs, lectures, books and other media, a work develops that is noticed by critics.

Programs

• It's all just an illusion , a comedy of the possible impossibilities, premiered in 1992 at Café Hahn, Koblenz-Güls
• The philosophy of magic , premiered in 1999 at the Theater für 99 , Koblenz
• PHILOZAUBER , thought games illusions, premiered in 2003 in the private theater Konradhaus , Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein
• SAITENZAUBER , (duo program with a classical guitarist), premiered in 2004 in the concert hall of the Koblenz Music School
• TASTENZAUBER , (duo program with the pianist Bieno), premiered in 2005 in the concert hall of the Koblenz Music School
• SANGESZAUBER , (duo program with bass-baritone Volker Tramp), premiered in 2008 in the former Pallottine Chapel Ehrenbreitstein
• REALLUSION , texts - theses - pocket games, premiere 2010 in the theater of the VHS Koblenz
• The power of deception , a magic-philosophical solo program on the question of the supernatural, premiered on February 22nd, 2015 in Diehl's Hotel Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein

Books

As an author

• Thinking in times of crisis, ecological thinking with Albert Schweitzer, Max Horkheimer, Albert Camus and Bertrand Russell , Hamburg 1991 (Philosophical dissertation Bonn)
• Entertainment and image , artistic entertainment from a social science perspective, Frankfurt a. M. 1993
• Philosophy of Magic , An essay about amazement, Hamburg 1994 (2nd edition 2003)
• Dance of the hands, incitement to magic , Hamburg 1996 (2nd edition 2004)
• Small philosophy of laughter , an essay on the phenomenon of the comic, Koblenz 2000
• Andinos Zauberanthologie , historical and creative on 25 classics of the art of illusion, Stuttgart 2001
• PHILOZAUBER with ANDINO, audio book for the program, Bonn 2004
• Together with Michael Wittschier: Magic Philosophy, Amazement, Questions, Knowledge , Düsseldorf 2007
• The philosophical magic ladder, From the market square to the cafés, A short history of thinking with magical introductions , Hamburg 2010 (2nd edition 2011)

From Dr. Andreas Michel-Andino also has around 300 articles in specialist journals and various compilations, including several pioneering series and columns in magical magazines , mainly on the theory and history of the art of illusion.

As editor

• Together with Thomas Ebers and Markus Melchers: Dialog als Lebensform , Festschrift for Gerhard Pfafferott, Koblenz 2007
• Interim balance sheet philosophy , an anthology for philosophy and the art of illusion, Koblenz 2011

Memberships and prices

• 1978 Admission to the Magic Circle of Germany (MZvD)
• 1979 Special prize at the first MZvD youth competition in Sindelfingen
• 1984 German runner-up in the children's magic division at the first free German championships of the Magical Northern Lights in Hamburg. A first prize was not awarded.
• 1985 accepted into the International Brotherhood of Magicians
• 1990–2002 head of the Koblenz district of the Magic Circle of Germany
• 1992 co-founding of the Middle Rhine section of the German Society of Circus Friends and management until 2002
• 1999 admission to The Magic Circle London without taking an exam
• 2002 Appointment as Associate of the Inner Magic Circle with Silver Star and Germany representative of the Magic Circle London
• 2006 inclusion in the " Who's Who " of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2007 Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star
• 2010 acceptance into the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians
• 2011 artist of the year in the special category magic philosophy
• 2016 Artist of the Year in the Mental Magic category
• 2016 Golden MZvD badge with diamonds for the 40th stage anniversary

Mentions and sources (selection)

• Jürgen August Alt , Magic, An Introduction, Stuttgart 1995
• Thomas Ebers / Markus Melchers, How do trees get into the forest, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001
• Olaf Benzinger, The Book of Magicians, Munich 2003
• hr2 double head, Andino in conversation with Stephan Hübner, Frankfurt a. M., broadcast January 12, 2007
• Stephan Oettermann and Sibylle Spiegel, Lexicon of Magicians, Offenbach am Main 2004
• Thomas Ebers / Markus Melchers, Practical Philosophizing with Children, Münster 2005
• Wittus Witt , Magic and Enchanting , A Glimpse into Contemporary Magic, Hamburg 2008
• Siegfried Reusch (Ed.), The Magic of Thinking, Conversations on Philosophy, Darmstadt 2012
• Wittus Witt, 65 magic stories, My encounters with magicians, 2nd edition Hamburg 2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Andino in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Andino
• Andreas Michel-Andino in the German Zauber-Pedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Magician Andino awarded twice. In: artistenarchiv-marburg. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .