Günther Dammann

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Stumbling stone at the house, Wissmannstrasse 17, in Berlin-Grunewald

Günther Dammann , called Robertini (born March 8, 1910 in Berlin ; died September 8, 1942 in the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp ), was a German Jewish magician and author .

Life

Günther Dammann, son of the banker and member of the board of directors of the Synagogue Association Grunewald Emil M. Dammann (d. 1937), began to be interested in the art of magic at the age of 14 and performed under the stage name “Robertini”.

After graduating from high school, he studied economics, history and philosophy in Berlin and Munich from 1928 to 1933, before working in his father's bank.

At 21, he joined the club Magic Circle of Germany in and wrote for the organ magic several articles on the history of magic. The then very successful and also Jewish illusionist Chevalier Ernest Thorn became his friend, mentor and teacher.

In the period from 1933 to 1937 Dammann published three works that were fundamental to the art of magic.

On September 5, 1942, Dammann was deported to Riga, where he was murdered three days later.

Stumbling block

On October 4, 2010, on the initiative of the Berlin Magical Circle under the direction of Peter Schuster, Günter Dammann's 1000th stumbling block in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf on Wissemannstr. 17 relocated.

Publications

  • The Jews in Magic , Berlin 1933 (originally The Jews in Sleight of Hand )
  • Masters of Magic - Life Stories of Famous Magicians , Vienna 1936
  • Magic arts and magicians - a reading, teaching and reference book , Vienna 1937

literature

  • Jens-Uwe Günzel, Günther Dammann and the history of Jewish magic , in: Kalonymos , August 2019, pp. 9–11

Web links

Commons : Günther Dammann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stumbling blocks in Berlin, accessed November 21, 2014
  2. ↑ Archive of the MzvD ( Magic Circle of Germany )
  3. ↑ Book info, accessed November 21, 2014 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buch-info.org
  4. ↑ Stumbling blocks in Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Dammann, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robertini
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish magician and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1942
Place of death Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp