The big hocus-pocus
| The big hocus-pocus | |
|---|---|
| Publication country | GDR |
| editor | Henschelverlag, Berlin |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| Presentation | bound with dust jacket |
| Illustrations | b / w illustrations |
| Languages) | German |
| Page size | 555 |
| theme | biography |
| editor | |
| Gisela and Dietmar Winkler | |
The Great Hocus-Pocus - From the Lives of Famous Magicians is a magic book that deals exclusively with the biographies of magicians.
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The editors, Gisela and Dietmar Winkler, have compiled life stories from ten well-known magicians in this anthology. 120 short biographies of other magicians round off the book.
For the first time, the book gives an insight into the diversity of a profession that has lost none of its appeal from ancient Greece and the Egypt of the Pharaohs to the computer-controlled world of today.
The chapters
- Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin - The father of modern magic
- Alexander Heimbürger - The magician from Münster
- Alexander Herrmann - The Mephisto among the magicians
- Carl Hertz - The magician with the missing bird cage
- David Devant - A life as a magician
- Chung Ling Soo - The mysterious Chinese
- Harry Houdini - King of the Escape Artists
- Kalanag - Sim-Sala-Bim swirls around the world
- Emil Kio - Magic in the circus
- Louperti - game with Brasil
- 120 short biographies
- The art of magic
- Register of persons
- swell
Quote
"Is this the art of deception represented to the outside world to a high standard and clearly represented as an independent, traditional art genre."
- W. Geissler-Werry : Magische Welt, Heft 4, 1981, 30th year, p. 194
Meetings
- Magische Welt , No. 4, 1981, 30th year, p. 194
pads
- 1st edition 1981
- 2nd edition, 1982
- 3rd edition, abridged paperback edition, 1982
proof
- ↑ Quote from the preface, page 7