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Reinhard Müller
Reinhard Müller | |
Born | January 10, 1935 Münstermaifeld, Germany |
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Reinhard became first interested in magic in 1950. In 1953 he started to set up his own archive on magic, by then on cross-section paper which he later transferred to file cards. First information was retrieved from Otto Stolina’s lending library, a Magic dealer from Oelde, Germany. His pet effects are topological effects with jumbo cards; he invented the Three Card Catch.
Reinhard is honorary member of the German Magic Circle (MZvD) and the Magic Club Vienna, a society in Austria. He is also member of the Escuela Magica de Madrid (EMM). In Magie – the official magazine of the German Magic Circle – he contributed 30 years the editorial column “Reinhard Müller Magie-International”, published a forty-part series in the periodical of Escorial, and provided notes to each of the Carlhorst Meier Mental Workshops.
Reinhard is a founder member of the German “Card Work Shop” a gathering of card specialists; he is highly recognized for his precise knowledge on magic.
Awards
- Reinhard earned repeatedly prizes in MZvD Close-up and Card competitions.
- In 1978 he earned MZvD 2nd prize for Invention
- Nominated in 1982 as MZvD Writer of the Year.
Bibliography
- Falsch-Zähl-Methoden [False Counting] (1972)
- Several major research monographs including Ambitious Cards (1977)
- Explained 251 English Fachausdrücke aus der Kartenmagie [technical terms of card magic] (1978)
- Gilbreath's Principles (1979, 1982, 1996 rev.)
- Cartas Gigantes (1981)
- Phantomwürfel [Phantom Dices] (1982)
- Wild Cards (1983)
- Riesen-Karten [Jumbo Cards], 3 parts (1983, 1984, and 1986)
- Flying Cards (1985)
- Los 4 Aces (1985)
- Estimación (1986)
- Card Cases (1987)
- The Glimpse (1988)
- The Gray Code (1989)
- The Card Index, White Line Problem, Marlo on Faked Decks, Cards up the Sleeve, Hofzinser and the Magic of the 19th Century: Card Magic in Germany (1993; 1994 rev, 22pp)
- Viaje de una Carta a Interior de Recinto cerrado [Card in Some Object] (1996, 8pp)
- The Card Effects of Robert-Houdin (1996, 9pp)
- Gelegte Spiele [Prearranged Decks] (2008)
- He also wrote essays in 8 German and in 8 English magazines: which includes ca. 300 essays in Magie, 118 essays in Magisce Welt, and essays in Hokus-Pokus and Arcane.
Annual "Escorial" conference contributions
- Gilbreath’s Principles (1979)
- Jumbo Cards (1981)
- Wild Cards [collection of effects, general information only, exclusively for the Jornadas Cartomagicas ‘93] (1983)
- Ace Assembly (1985)
- Flying Cards – Cards Across (1985)
- Estimation (1986)
- Card Cases (1987)
- Glimpse (1988)
- Gray Code [Código Pulsera] (1989)
- Card Indexes (1990)
- Culling and Stocking [Búsquedas y Montajes] (1990)
- White Line (1991)
- Marlo on Faked Decks (1992)
- Hofzinser and the Magic in the 19th a 20th Century (1993)
- Cards Up the Sleeve (1993)
- Allerton – Horowitz – Daley (1994)
- The Card Magic of Stanley Collins (1995)
- Card In... [Viaja de una Carta a Interior de Recinto Cerrado] (1996)
- The Card Effects of Robert-Houdin (1996)
- Vernon’s Lectures in Germany (1997)
- Escaping Card [Carta Escapista, Card penetrates some Objects] (1997)
- Larry Jennings by Busby/Mueller (1998)
- Paini – Potassy – Pasteboards (1999)
- Greater Magic – Great Stimulation [Premonition effect] (2000)
- Pintajes – Color Changes (2001)
- Baraja “Mene-Tekel” (2002)
- Cartomagia Japonesa (2003)
- Buckley 30 [30 Card Problems – plots] (2004)
- Ein Spiel Karten, Prague 1853 – A Pack of Cards – A Look Back into the Middle of the 19th Century – First Textbook of advanced Card Magic, – Appendix: Ein Blick in Döbler’s und Bosko’s Zauberkabinet, 1832, Döbler’s Book, as a Forerunner of “EIN SPIEL KARTEN” (2005)
- Karl Fulves’ Magazines (2006)
- Sam Schwartz and Playing Cards, special (2007)
- Paul Harris (2008)
- A Subjective Attempt in Search of Clues of Card Magic concerning German-language Countries (2009)
- Ralph W. Hull, ‘The Wizard of Crooksville”and a variety of his Card Magic (2010)
- Is Conradi’s “Der Moderne Kartenkünstler” still MODERN? (2011)
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