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Effect: J. N. Hofzinser is one of the most significant magicians to have thrived in the nineteenth century, and has been a role model for great magicians ever since. He is the inventor of some of the best and most enduring card tricks ever created. Yet information on his life and magic has been scant and filled with errors.
Hofzinser was a resident and well-known figure in nineteenth-century Vienna. More than twenty years ago, another highly respected and honored Viennese professional magician, Magic Christian, took on the task of enlarging and correcting the record we have of his predecessor. After doing extensive research over decades, and studying thousands of original sources, Magic Christian has managed to totally revise what we know about J. N. Hofzinser. The result is an exhaustive study of this master and his extraordinarily creative magic.
Given the abundant resources Magic Christian has uncovered, he is able to present a picture of Hofzinser that puts flesh on the shadow of the only previous portrait we have, which was created by Ottokar Fischer over one hundred years ago. In Christian’s first volume, through numerous recently discovered documents, we get to know Hofzinser as a determined individualist, a published poet and composer, a respected music critic, an insightful analyst of his contemporaries in magic, and an inspired magician.
Through systematic research in public and private archives, Christian found new material on Hofzinser and his life’s journey. He has also examined and evaluated existing material and has reproduced it for the first time in its authentic form. All this creates an essential work, one that imparts an authentic picture of Viennese conjuring in the nineteenth century, told through the life and magic of J. N. Hofzinser.
Comes with Volume 2 and both volumes are contained in an attractive and sturdy slipcase.
Only 1,000 sets of these limited edition books were ever printed. They are reserved for the most serious student of parlor magic and will sell out quickly.
Contents:
PREFACE FOR THE PUBLIC………………………………………. 11
1. INTRODUCTION FOR THE PROFESSION……………………13
1.1 GENERAL…………………………………………………………………………. 13
1.2 OTTOKAR FISCHER’S SOURCES………………………………………….. 13
1.3 A CHANCE MEETING-THE BEGINNING OF A LONG
INVESTIGATION………………………………………………………………… 16
1.4 THE FIRST STAGES OF RESEARCH……………………………………….. 17
2. THE HOFZINSER FAMILY…………………………………………19
2.1 J. N. HOFZINSER’S GRANDPARENTS…………………………………… 19
2.2 J. N. HOFZINSER’S PARENTS………………………………………………..21
2.3 THE THREE BROTHERS OF J. N. HOFZINSER…………………………..22
Leopold-Franz Xaver Hofzinser………………………………………….23
Franz-Xaver Fidelis Hofzinser……………………………………………..26
Karl-Josef Hofzinser……………………………………………………………27
2.4 THE ANTON HOFZINSER FILE……………………………………………….28
2.5 THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY…………………………………29
3. JOHANN NEPOMUK FIDELIS HOFZINSER…………………31
3.1 HIS YOUTH………………………………………………………………………..31
3.2 THE BOGUS TITLE OF “DOCTOR “………………………………………..34
3.3 HOFZINSER’S CAREER AS A CIVIL SERVANT (1825-1839)…… 35
3.4 HOFZINSER, THE MUSIC CRITIC…………………………………………..37
3.5 HOFZINSER, THE ROMANTIC LITERARY FIGURE…………………… 42
3.6 HOFZINSER, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL AND IMPERIAL AGRI
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER
OF THE ROYAL BAVARIAN HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION… 43
3.7 THE EARLY MAGICIAN……………………………………………………….44
Director Carl-Staberl’s tricks…………………………………………..44
3.8 HOFZINSER’S CUNNING JOB MANEUVER (1839)……………….. 47
3.9 HOFZINSER, THE UBIQUITOUS CIVIL SERVANT (1840-1865)…. 49
3.10 HOFZINSER’S RETIREMENT…………………………………………………..51
3.11 HOFZINSER CENTER STAGE IN VIENNESE SOCIETY……………… 52
3.12 HOFZINSER, COMPOSER OF WALTZES………………………………..61
4. FRAU WILHELMINE HOFZINSER……………………………… 63
4.1 THE BERGMANN FAMILY…………………………………………………. 64
4.2 THE WEDDING………………………………………………………………… 64
5. THE FAMOUS SALON HOFZINSER……………………………71
5.1 BOSCO AND DOBLER, THE ROLE MODELS………………………. 71
5.2 THE SALON HOFZINSER ON WOLLZEILE 789…………………….. 72
5.3 THE ATTEMPT AT A SALON IN THE VOLKSGARTEN-
CAFE CORTI…………………………………………………………………….89
5.4 THE NEW SALON HOFZINSER, HIMMELPFORTGASSE 953……. 90
5.5 THE THIRD SALON HOFZINSER, WALFISCHGASSE 8……………. 96
5.6 THE LAST SALON HOFZINSER, HOTEL STADT LONDON,
FLEISCHMARKT………………………………………………………………. 100
6. HOFZINSER’S TRAVELS………………………………………… 103
7. J. N. HOFZINSER’S DEATH……………………………………..141
8. THE PERIOD AFTER HIS DEATH……………………………… 147
9. HOFZINSER’S STUDENTS……………………………………….. 151
Benedikt Golling………………………………………………………….. 151
Heinrich Bawinger…………………………………………………………. 152
Escamoteur Ostermann…………………………………………………. 153
Dr. Bauer……………………………………………………………………….. 154
St. Roman……………………………………………………………………… 154
Georg Heubeck……………………………………………………………… 156
Ludwig Bergheer……………………………………………………………. 156
The Mayer Brothers……………………………………………………….. 158
Emil Gottlieb………………………………………………………………….. 158
Friedrich Berndt, Jr…………………………………………………………. 160
10. HOFZINSER’S MAGICIAN FRIENDS……………………… 163
10.1 CARL VON POSPISCHIL…………………………………………………. 163
10.2 CARLO MARCHINI………………………………………………………… 164
10.3 COMPARS (CARL) HERRMANN……………………………………… 165
11. THE DIARY OF JOHANN NEPOMUK HOFZINSER…. 169
11.1 GENERAL REMARKS……………………………………………………….. 169
11.2 ALEXANDER PATUZZI………………………………………………………. 1 70
11.3 MAGIE. NACH DEM TAGEBUCH J.N. HOFZINSER’S………….. 170
12. POEMS BY HOFZINSER……………………………………….209
To Herr Costenoble, k.k. Court Actor……………………………..209
At the Grave of Antonia Oster……………………………………. 210
For the Name Day [of the Beloved, Revered Father of
Our Country]………………………………………………………………. 211
Hans Sachs……………………………………………………………………211
To Mlle. Peche, k.k. Court Actress………………………………… 212
To Ludwig Lowe as Hamlet……………………………………………213
Impromptu……………………………………………………………………213
Cypress Wreath, Woven for My Late Friend, Slawik………214
To Josephine Eder…………………………………………………………216
To Nina Onitsch……………………………………………………………..217
Concert by the Goldberg Siblings………………………………… 217
To Her……………………………………………………………………………218
To J. Hoven……………………………………………………………………218
The Hand………………………………………………………………………219
To J. Hoven……………………………………………………………………219
Charade……………………………………………………………………….220
Charade……………………………………………………………………….221
13. ALOIS HOFER’S VOLUME OF POETRY, PASSIFLORA .223
14. HOFZINSER’S NEWSPAPER REVIEWS OF
FAMOUS ARTISTS………………………………………………….. 225
14.1 REVIEWS OF VIRTUOSI, ACTORS AND FEMALE DANCERS….225
Niccolo Paganini……………………………………………………………225
Johann Nestroy……………………………………………………………..227
Franz Liszt………………………………………………………………………228
About Dilettantes………………………………………………………….228
Fanny Elsler…………………………………………………………………..229
Monkey Theater…………………………………………………………….229
Gioacchino Rossini………………………………………………………..231
Puppet Theater……………………………………………………………..232
14.2 NEWSPAPER REVIEWS OF MAGICIANS……………………………. 232
Ludwig Dobler……………………………………………………………….232
Friedrich Ferd. Becker…………………………………………………….234
Bartolomeo Bosco………………………………………………………..234
Bartolomeo Bosco………………………………………………………..236
Ludwig Dobler……………………………………………………………….236
Max Merman………………………………………………………………….238
F. Baron, Ludwig Dobler, Henri Robin……………………………. 238
Bartolomeo Bosco………………………………………………………..239
Compars Herrmann……………………………………………………….239
Compars Herrmann……………………………………………………….241
Wiljabal Frikell……………………………………………………………….243
14.3 HOFZINSER’S LITERARY TALES……………………………………………..243
Village Scenes………………………………………………………………….244
15. FORTY-TWO LETTERS TO FRIENDS AND
BUSINESS ASSOCIATES…………………………………….. 245
15.1 THE TWELVE PRESERVED LETTERS (1847-1853) TO
LONG-TIME FRIEND CARL VON POSPISCHIL……………………. 246
First Letter…………………………………………………………………………. 246
Second Letter…………………………………………………………………..248
Third Letter……………………………………………………………………….. 250
Fourth Letter……………………………………………………………………..253
Fifth Letter………………………………………………………………………… 258
Sixth Letter……………………………………………………………………….. 260
Seventh Letter…………………………………………………………………..265
Eighth Letter……………………………………………………………………..270
Ninth Letter……………………………………………………………………….273
Tenth Letter………………………………………………………………………276
Eleventh Letter………………………………………………………………….277
Twelfth Letter…………………………………………………………………….278
15.2 LETTER TO FRANZ WALLNER, THEATER DIRECTOR IN BERLIN… 279
15.3 Letter by Hofzinser to a Theater Director in Linz……………… 280
15.4 THE TWENTY-EIGHT LETTERS OF HOFZINSER TO
HIS FRIEND CARLO MARCHINI………………………………………….281
First Letter…………………………………………………………………………. 281
Second Letter…………………………………………………………………..282
Third Letter……………………………………………………………………….. 284
Fourth Letter……………………………………………………………………..285
Fifth Letter………………………………………………………………………… 288
Sixth Letter……………………………………………………………………….. 289
Seventh Letter…………………………………………………………………..291
Eighth Letter……………………………………………………………………..293
Ninth Letter……………………………………………………………………….294
Tenth Letter………………………………………………………………………296
Eleventh Letter………………………………………………………………….298
Twelfth Letter…………………………………………………………………….301
Thirteenth Letter………………………………………………………………. 302
Fourteenth Letter…………………………………………………………….. 305
Fifteenth Letter………………………………………………………………….306
Sixteenth Letter……………………………………………………………. 307
Seventeenth Letter………………………………………………………. 308
Eighteenth Letter…………………………………………………………. 309
Nineteenth Letter………………………………………………………… 310
Twentieth Letter…………………………………………………………… 311
Twenty-first Letter…………………………………………………………. 312
Twenty-second Letter………………………………………………….. 313
Twenty-third Letter……………………………………………………….. 315
Twenty-fourth Letter…………………………………………………….. 316
Twenty-fifth Letter………………………………………………………… 316
Twenty-sixth Letter……………………………………………………….. 318
Twenty-seventh Letter…………………………………………………. 319
Twenty-eighth Letter……………………………………………………. 319
16. TWO LETTERS TO HOFZINSER………………………………….321
16.1 Letter from Carl von Pospischil………………………………………321
16.2 Letter from Otto Prechtler to the editor of the
Wiener Zeitung…………………………………………………………….. 324
17. HOFZINSER’S VARIOUS PROGRAMS……………………..325
18. HOFZINSER IN THE PUBLIC RECORD BEFORE 1910 .355
18.1 HOFZINSER IN GENERAL LITERATURE……………………………….355
18.2 HOFZINSER IN THE LITERATURE OF MAGIC………………………356
18.3 HOFZINSER’S TRICKS IN MAGIC DEALERS’ CATALOGS……358
19. THE BEST-KNOWN MAGIC DEALERS OF THE TIME……363
20. HOFZINSER’S RESIDENCES……………………………………. 365
21. A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY…………………………………………367
22. THE HOFZINSER FAMILY TREE………………………………..371
23. RESEARCH SOURCES……………………………………………. 379
23.1 McMANUS COLLECTION, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,
WASHINGTON, D.C………………………………………………………..379
23.2 VOLKER HUBER COLLECTION, OFFENBACH……………………379
23.3. PETER SCHUSTER COLLECTION, BERLIN…………………………. 380
23.4 MAGIC CHRISTIAN COLLECTION, VIENNA……………………..380
23.5 DAVID COPPERFIELD COLLECTION, LAS VEGAS…………….380
23.6 HEINZ LURZ COLLECTION, MUNICH………………………………..380
23.7 MAGIC LITERATURE FROM 1812-1925, INCLUDING WORKS
CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF HOFZINSER’S TRICKS………….381
23.8 NON-MAGIC LITERARY SOURCES……………………………………382
23.9 LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES………………………………………………383
23.10 PARISHES………………………………………………………………………. 384
23.11 PARTICULAR THANKS…………………………………………………….. 384
24. INDEX OF NAMES…………………………………………….. 386
25. LIST OF IMAGES………………………………………………..388
26. IMAGE SOURCES……………………………………………… 391
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