Magical world
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| description | Magic magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | magical world, Hamburg |
| First edition | 1952 |
| Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
| Sold edition | 2,500 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Wittus Witt |
| editor | Wittus Witt |
| executive Director | Wittus Witt |
| Web link | www.magischewelt.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0940-5852 |
Die Magische Welt is a German-language magical magazine. It was founded in July 1952 by Werner Geissler , called Werry, in Düren-Niederau . He published it until his death in 2000. From 1953 to 1983 the magazine appeared six times a year and since 1984 four times a year. After Werry's death, the German magician Wittus Witt took over the magical world . It appears six times a year. In professional circles it is mostly abbreviated as MW .
The publisher has split the magazine since 2009: MW in large format brings reports, interviews, general and theoretical information, while descriptions of feats - formerly part of MW - are published separately in the supplement entitled “Magic Salt”.
Content and edition
The Magical World deals with all relevant topics related to the art of magic. In the course of the 1960s, the magazine developed from a purely art-descriptive magazine for magicians to a theoretic and historically questioning specialist publication. The circulation in 2015 was 2,500 copies.
The Magical World is available in libraries and is linked to the submission of mandatory copies to the German National Library and the Hamburg State Library. Since 2006, the Magic World has been used by all members as the house organ of the Swiss Magic Association "MRS".
history
The Magical World first appeared in July 1952. The pages in DIN A5 format were initially produced by hand typesetting by W. Geissler and his partner at the time Theo Wolf (December 18, 1924 - January 26, 2000) and then printed using the letterpress process in a printing house in Düren.
After the first year of publication with a total of three issues, the number of subscribers was 89.
From 1953 the magazine appeared six times a year and in this year also with colored front pages. From the fourth to the 28th year the magazine was printed in the Jos. Fischer produces in Jülich . From the 29th year (1980) Werner Geissler switched to offset printing . The editorial section was introduced this year and has become an integral part of the magazine.
For cost reasons, Werner Geissler took over the complete production of the magazine himself from 1982 and set up his own offset printing company in his studio. The MW was manufactured here until 1993. It was then produced by the Gehler printing company in Düren, which produced it until the takeover of Wittus Witt in 2000.
In the 1970s, Die Magische Welt was, according to its own account, the first specialist journal to unmask Uri Geller and write about the “most gigantic dumbing down of the people of the century”.
In the 2000s the magical world began to speak out against the use of animals in magic.
From 2010 to 2015, the Magical World was also offered as an e-journal and could be obtained individually or in combination with the paper version.
Issue 1 attracted legal attention in 2017: In the article "The magic is (not) among us", Wittus Witt published photos without having permission to include them in the performance and without the people depicted asking for their consent to publication to ask. He then had to sign a declaration of cease and desist, pay the two artists shown around € 600 each and black out the relevant areas in the not yet delivered booklets.
Three years after the first edition of MW , Werry started another periodical, Magische Revue , parallel to MW , which was intended as a magazine for beginners. However, it stayed with the one edition published in July 1954.
Side dishes and gimmicks
Since 1961, extra sheets have been added to the editions at irregular intervals, which can either be used as additional requisites for the tricks described in the booklet or represent independent tricks. Since 2014, the current publisher has titled these supplements "Gimmick", which have since been regularly added to the issues.
In addition, since 2003 the publisher has been publishing special issues at irregular intervals under the name MW-Spezial , some of which are included with the magazine's issues free of charge.
- No. 1: FISM 2003 - An illustrated book, Wittus Witt
- No. 2: Miracles, Tricks & Facts, Peter Rawert , 2007
- No. 3: Simsalabim - Here I am again, Kalanag a magician from Germany, Paul Koch, 2011
- No. 4: Enchanted - From secret sciences and magical spectacles, Vanessa Hirsch / Peter Rawert (in collaboration with the Altona Museum for Art and Cultural History), Hamburg, 2012
- No. 5: Stursa, Anton : From my collection, 2013
- No. 6: Theiss, Christian: Bosco's Magic Arts, 2015
- No. 7: is magic an art? - Ways to make the impossible visible, Peter Rawert, 2016 (authorized reprint from course book 184 )
particularities
The cover pictures have often been designed by visual artists since 2011. In 2011 the Düsseldorf artist Klaus Battke designed the cover sheets, in 2012 the Nuremberg graphic artist Peter Thiele and 2015 the Hamburg artist Tobias Sandberger .
Title design by Klaus Battke
Title design P. Thiele
Known employees
- Rolf Andra , 1958–1990, professional magician who has dealt specifically with card art .
- Denis Behr , 2002–2013, specialist in card art.
- Roberto Giobbi , 1986–2001, specialist author of several books on the subject of card magic.
- Pit Hartling , 2001–2012, article on the theory of magic.
- Max Maven , 2002-2011, American mentalist .
- Andreas Michel-Andino , series on the topic of What is (magic) art ?, since 2005, ongoing
- Paul Potassy , 2003–2005, series on the professional life of magicians.
- Ulrich Rausch , 1986–2008, several series on the subject of children's magic and creativity in magic.
- Peter Rawert , since 2002, contributions to the history of magic.
- Hanno Rhomberg, 2010–2014, reports on the magic scene in general and Austria in particular.
- Otto Wessely , since 2004, series about life as a magician.
- Markus Zink , since 2004, several series on the subject of theater magic, children's magic and magic tricks.
Award
In 1973, the Czech magicians in Prague honored the Magical World as the best magical magazine in Europe and awarded the publisher W. Geissler-Werry the Golem , an approx. 30 cm high standing figure.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rico Leiter in Magische Welt , issue 4/2007
- ^ Witt, Wittus, Werry - A life around the magical world , ISBN 978-3-00-037040-3 , page 15
- ^ Witt, Wittus, Werry - A life around the magical world , ISBN 978-3-00-037040-3 , page 116
- ↑ Magical World, Volume 1, Volume 29, 1980, Page 3
- ↑ Witt, Wittus, Werry - A life around the magical world , page 116
- ^ Witt, Wittus, Werry - A life around the magical world , ISBN 978-3-00-037040-3 , page 120
- ^ W. Geissler Werry in Magische Welt , issue 1/1974
- ↑ Andreas Michel-Andino in Magische Welt , Heft 9, 2000, pp. 284 to 287
- ↑ Witt, Wittus, The 1200 Euro Criticism. In Magische Welt 1/2017, Hamburg, page 117
- ↑ Magische Welt, No. 4, 1961, page 131, The number miracle , by Prof. GA Neidenberger
- ↑ Erhard Liebenow in Magische Welt , issue 6/1973, page 226