When 20 Mark suddenly transform to 100 Mark, then you either made a wager on the right horse at the derby or there is magic involved. Well, on Friday evening the second was the case. In the Culture Barn Berfa, Mr. Christelli presented a large number of amazing tricks to the audience during his truly enchanting program.

With Mr. Christelli a real professional artist entered the Youth Talent Stage (Ju-Ta-Bü), especiall since he has already performed at many places of the world and for celebreties like Alfred Biolek and Siegfried and Roy. During the entering, with the soundtrack of Vangelis – Conquest of Paradise,  one already noticed that Mr. Christelli is an artist who knows how to display his abilities. Professionally and energetic he entered the stage, presented his program with a refreshing mix of eloquence and spontanity and proofed that his abilities are not limited to a perfect entering. Whether he produced a glass of beer from his shoe, or transformed a piece of string into cloth, or produced a rain of 5 Mark coins or even made a 20 Mark bill vanish – the audience didn’t cease marveling at the show. One was especially amazed when right that 20 Mark bill which just vanished  reappeared inside of a balloon, which Mr. Christelli had just inflated. By the way, balloons were the central theme of Mr. Christelli’s program. For example he rewarded with a balloon all of the numerous assistants from the audience, which he integrated skillfully into his program. Now and then he choosed one from the audience to assist him with a trick, providing much transparencecy. But the balloons were no ordinary ones. Within seconds and with a few moves the magician changed a simple long balloon into the funniest animal figures, always producing laughter from the spectators.

In the second part of the program the astonishment continued. Mr. Christelli showed the audience three cards – one red and the other two black. Then, with the front sides hidden, he changed the positions of the cards with a few slow moves. Then he asked the audience to guess where the red card is. Of course the spectators were always wrong. Because of the similar character of some “hat-games” on the street Mr. Christelli gave after the trick a logical advise: “Do never gamble for money with strangers.”  Mr. Christelli stilled the curiosity of the audience by letting the spectators in on a single trick. However, he emphasized that with the revelation of tricks “the best part of magic is lost”, the illusion – a statement with which the audience agreed wholeheartedly  . After some other amazing tricks – Mr. Christelli even temporarily developed clairvoyant abilities: he knew beforehand the order in which a spectator would create a sequence of symbols – the magician finished his program with a classical spectacular trick: the women pierced by swords who shortly afterwards climbed out of the box, uninjured. So two hours of David-Copperfield-flair ended at last with breathtaking pyrotech and the long lasting applause of the audience.

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