“Your wonderful book is entertaining, informative and inspiring. It is written in the humorous, intellectual style that is so uniquely yours … You will live on in the history of Magic – forever.” – Siegfried and Roy

These routines are taken from Punx’s full evening show. This material is not only audience-tested, it is the material that one of the greatest magicians of the twentieth century used to earn a living. It is not a book for beginners. Some of the routines have only partial explanations. This is because most of this material consists only of presentations, many of them for standard tricks. There is also much material on the theory of magical performance.

(Translated from the German by Bill Palmer.)

1st edition 1991, 1st digital edition 2013, 168

Table of Contents

3. Translator’s Preface to the E-Book
12. Punx — the Revolutionary Magician
15. Of False and Real Magicians
22. Publisher’s Preface
23. Translator’s IntroductionThe Actor
25. Eternal Longing — a Very Short Biography
28. And Why “Punx,” Mr. Hanemann?Prologue
31. The Candle Holder from the Temple of Solomon
33. Style in Magic: Some Thoughts About a ProblemPart 1 Cagliostro Magic of The Human Mind
43. Giant Memory
47. Thought Reading
49. Billet Reading
52. Living and DeadPart 2 Eulenspiegel Magic of Sleight of Hand and Playing Cards
57. The Swelled Head Presentation for the Balloon Penetration
58. The PDI 15 Presentation for the Chinese Compass
60. Connections Presentation for the Chinese Sticks
61. The Mystery of the 4th Dimension
64. Unprofitable Art? Presentation for the Coin Manipulator
68. The Linking Rings
72. The Grand Tour
76. Parody Presentation for the Six Card Repeat
82. The Hustler
90. Sherlock Holmes’ Last Case
94. The World as Will and RepresentationPart 3 Faust Devil — Devil Fantasizing in the Witches’ Kitchen
102. Devil — Devil Fantasizing in the Witches KitchenPart 4 Münchhausen Nonsense, Stories, Escapades

     Part 5 Punx Solving the Time Problem

127. Stretching a Rope
129. Bill in Cigarette
131. The Wonder BoxBonus: Improbable Miracles
137. Soap Bubbles in Braunau
139. The Clock of Friendship — Almost a Ballad 
145. Epilogue
149. Punx in Print
159. Bibliography
161. P.S.