The magic world

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The magic world
DieZauberwelt.jpg
Area of ​​Expertise Magic art
language German
First edition 1895
Frequency of publication monthly, until 1904
Editor-in-chief Carl Willmann
editor Carl Willmann

Die Zauberwelt is the world's first magical magazine; it was edited by Carl Willmann in Hamburg from 1895 to 1904 and appeared in monthly editions.

history

Carl Willmann was a magic device dealer who ran his workshop and trade in Hamburg. In January 1895 he published the first edition of Die Zauberwelt . The magazine was published regularly every month for 10 years until 1904 by Julius Sussmann . This made Die Zauberwelt a pioneer for similar publications. In March 1895 the magical period Mahatma came out in the USA and in June 1895 the magazine Der Zauberspiegel , which was published by the Berlin magician Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Horster .

meaning

The Magic World brought several systematically prepared series on different topics of magic.

  • The wand
  • The card school
  • The transformation hat

Also published The magical world a wealth of biographies about magicians, and was instrumental in the history of magic to work up. Today (2015) the world of magic is still one of the most important sources about the early magic events at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Presentation

All 120 issues show a cover picture designed by A. Wittich, which remained unchanged from the first to the last issue. Only information on the sequence of issues and the year was printed from the second edition. Each booklet has four cover pages and 16 inside pages.

swell

  • Rawert, Peter , Magic Journals - Series on the history of German-language magic magazines , in: Magische Welt , Volume 51, Issues 2–6, 2002
  • Rawert, Peter , FW Conradi - father of the German magic magazines? , in: Magische Welt, Volume 50, Issue 4, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trading with the Wonderful , John Willman on the life of Carl Willmann, Verlag Edition Huber, Offenbach, 1998, ISBN 3-921785-73-1
  2. ↑ James B. Alfredson and George Daily: A Bibliography of Conjuring Periodicals in English , 1986, p. 230
  3. ↑ Volker Huber : Horster. Bibliography of the magic books by FW Conradi-Horster. Huber, Offenbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-921785-92-8 .