Pit Hartling Lecture

Thursday, May 29th at 7pm Pit Hartling – The LecturePit Hartling is Germany’s most sucessful magician in the weight-class under 130pounds. Pit is part of Germany’s Flicking Fingers group, he was the youngestmember of the famous Escuela Magica de Madrid and was named Lecturer of theYear by the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood.Internationally, Pit is best known for his fun and clever style of cardmagic as well ashis Little Green Lecture notes and his critically acclaimed books Card Fictions and InOrder to Amaze.In this entertaining show-lecture Pit discusses card effects from his professionalrepertoire. He covers not only the working of the tricks themselves, but also generalprinciples of method and presentation that can be used in any magic-context.There will be a wide variety of plots and effects, with methods ranging from sleight ofhand and clever use of mathematical and psychological strategies to some routinesthat are entirely sleight-free.Finally, Pit will explain how to become rich and sexy, as well as the correct use offalse promises.“A triumph of brevity, creativity and quality from beginning to end.” – Eric Mead –"This stuff is beyond clever." – Max Maven –“High-caliber thinking at its best. Highly recommended “ – Michael Close –“Somebody like Pit Hartling comes along only once in twenty years – at best.”– Roberto Giobbi –"Card Fictions is simply one of the best card books I've read in years”.– Simon Aronson –„An evening with Pit is like a three-day magic convention. It is easy to get distractedby the sound of your mind exploding!" - Magic Magazine -"Congratulations on Chaos, which is, in my humble opinion, one of the bestconstructed card routines of the last decade."- Richard Vollmer -"Extremely strong, unusual effects!" - The Linking Ring -"Wow! Let me say that again: Wow. Some of the cleverest material I've seen in quitesome time.” -Genii Magazine-