Flip (magician)

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The magician Flip in his performance: Duplo-Magic
The magician Flip in his performance: Duplo-Magic
The magician Flip on the cover of Magical World magazine, 2007

Flip (born June 3, 1941 in Rotterdam as Flip Hallema ) is a Dutch magician , inventor, author and lecturer.

Life

Flip was born in Rotterdam as the son of the architect Guido Hallema and An Faber. When he was nine years old, his father showed him the first magic tricks, which he often showed on Flip's birthdays and also for his sister. Filp learned other tricks from an older magician who also gave him tutoring in mathematics.

At the age of 12, Flip began to create his own tricks.

His feat creations "Flip-Stick" and "Vanishing Glass" were included in the standard work of magic in the Tarbell Course in Magic in 1972 .

When Flip was 16 years old, he began studying art and studying graphic design. Two years later, Flip became a member of the magic club “De Magische Liga 52 Schakels”, in which Fred Kaps and Richard Ross were also members.

After Flip graduated as a product designer, he initially wanted to work in an advertising agency, but was drafted into the military. He then found a job with a cutlery company, but soon afterwards started his own business as a freelance designer. At the same time he worked as a magician.

In 1970 he developed his performance entitled "Duplo-Magic", in which the objects doubled.

In 1972 he lost all of his hair. In the same year he went on a seminar tour through the USA. In 1973 Flip became a professional magician. One of his first contracts took him to Paris, where he performed in the Eiffel Tower restaurant with Fred Kaps and Richard Ross .

In 1974 he was engaged with his performance in the USA, where the author Hayla M. Clark saw him and portrayed him for her book "The World's Greatest Magic".

At the beginning of the 1980s he went to Spain and ran the magic shop "El Rey de la Magia" with his second wife until 1990. During this time he also ran a small close-up theater.

In 1990 Flip moved back to Holland.

From 2009 to 2016 Flip was president of the Dutch magic association “Nederlandse Magische Unie” (NMU).

Creations

  • Flip stick
  • Flip's Vanishing Glass

TV show

Publications

  • Some manuscript tricks, 1982
  • Flip-Strips, 1983
  • What Is In A Name, 1988
  • Fl! P-Ping My Top-Secrets, Herrenberg 1981
  • Flip-Strips Lecture FISM-Madrid, 1985

literature

  • Photo report in: The World's Greatest Magic , Hyla M. Clark, 1976, p. 64 ff.
  • Cover story in: Magische Welt , issue 2, 56th year, 2007
  • Ulrich Rausch : Flip, the homo ludens; in: Magie - Die Kunst des Zauberns, ISSN 2566-6908, Frankfurt am Main, issue 10, October 2018, volume 98, pages 462–464.
  • "I'm not ashamed .. - Ulrich Rausch in conversation with Flip; portrait in: Magie in: Magie - Die Kunst des Zauberns, ISSN 2566-6908, Frankfurt am Main, issue 10, October 2018, volume 98, page 465– 466.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magische Welt , No. 2, 56th year, 2007, p. 74
  2. ^ Tarbell Course in Magic, Volume 8, page 221 ff.
  3. ↑ Magische Welt , No. 2, 56th year, 2007, p. 76
  4. ↑ The World's Greatest Magic , Hyla M. Clark, 1976, pp. 64 ff.
  5. ^ Homepage of the NMU, accessed on March 2, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Flip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallema, Flip (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch magician, inventor, author and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam