Magician Golub
How I became a magician? Well, certainly I was not born like that :) I'm
joking. When I was little I used to always admire magicians. I was mostly
wathcing them on TV, but I was lucky to have seen a magician live one day.
Simple he appeared in my classroom one day in front of my IIa class in middle
school and showed us some tricks, which for me was an unforgettable
performance. We kids were participating in some tricks on stage. There were a
lot of funny tricks and we really enjoyed it.From that time I was an active learner and where ever I could i did magic tricks. First trick that I learned how to do was a trick with three paper balls, that pass trough a table and appear under a hat. One of the other tricks I learned was a trick with cards, and I successfully show them to my friends. Then in some local paper i found an advertisement for two basic magic books. I was in forth grade, and I somehow convinced my parents to buy me those two books. In there i found a lot of interesting tricks for beginners, just what I needed at that time. I choose the best tricks from that books and i performed them to my friends, but I was running out of new tricks to perform, so I stopped with tricks.
I must say that in my country we do not have any magician association or any magic circles, and magic books in serbo-croatian are rare.
Then luck came to me again. I meet another magic trick lover. It was on the scout jamboree on Boracko lake in 1985. One of my coeval from the same scout troop had the same two books that i had, but he brought them with him and he was studying it more than I was, and he showed me some tricks from that books which I forgot how to do. I left my books at home and I was disappointed because I couldnt look in my books to remember how some tricks go. But some of my practiced tricks he did not show so we joined forces, and from that time we shared magic tricks and help each other to improve our shows. His name is Marko Cehaja and with him together we spent many years getting together everything we could like explanations of tricks (from articles in newspaper) and any magic books that we could find. One time we found an advertisement for 25 booklets about lots of domains of magic. That was so big for us, so we got together and spared money for those books. When I look at those books now I see very poorly designed books, and see that magic tricks are not explained very well, but we succeeded to extract essence and we create our own way to perform them. Author of that booklets (on our language) is magician Dragan Simonovic - Apa from Belgrade, Yugoslavia. I see now that those booklets were made from tricks explained in some foreign books, which I had gotten lately, and where those tricks were explained the right way. I still don't know if the author of those booklets has the right to copy tricks and pictures from those foreign books. Mainly to me and Marko these booklets helped to see complexes of different magic areas. Afterwards we got some of the foreign books, that helped us a lot.
My first show on stage was in 1987 in disco club in Saracica near Banja Luka, Bosnia. It was a joined performance with Marko. We were very young and when we got there he audience did not like us very much. We didnt have suites, and we didnt not look like magicians, but we succeeded to astonish the audience. I was very nervous, but my performance was very good. My next show was in my high school during a Christmas party, where kids were waiting for Santa Claus so they can tell him their Christmas wishes. For that show I and Marko were drilled and kids and adults were very satisfied. During the next magic shows Marko followed me, or I followed him. After that first show, we made our own requisites.
In 1988 we saw a real magic show that was performed by another professional magician Dedic Zeljko, artistic name - "Zeljoni". His performance was refreshing for us. There were a lot of tricks that we had seen for the first time. Me and Marko became very good friends with him and learned all about magic tricks that he knew. He was based only on prepared tricks that he bought from the magic shop and he did not have any magic books. From him we found out address for Magic Shop in Sombor, Yugoslavia where we started getting professional magic requisites.
Near the end of our high school career, I and Marko were professionally performing magic shows in Banja Luka, in kindergartens, cafe bars and restaurants. My personal magic show got in complete shape when I again by luck got for a present a package of magic requisites from magician Renato from Mostar, Bosnia. Well, I exchange it with him for magic books that I had about cards in which he was so interested in. He was not interested in magic tricks on stage so he send me those books.
In '91 I and Marko prerformed one of our last magic shows together in the Club of students from Electric faculty "KSET" in Banja Luka, where we performed for three nights. Then came the war. I went to regular Army, and Marko left Yugoslavia and ended up in Germany. For me that was a long pause from my magic work. Only with few returns to my faculty (Mechanical engineering) during the war I was performing my independent magic shows.
In '94. I began preforming magic shows again for kids in middle school and in kindergartens in Banja Luka and cities around it, with some help from my friend Savo Popovic, who is very skilled to negotiate with directors of that institutions. He helped me and was also an assistant on my stage too. I returned to the Army and between those two times that i went back, i was performing magic shows, where I brought a lot of happiness to kids and adults in these terrible days. After the War I had a chance to freely do magic shows.
I met a lot of magicians from Serbia, Yugoslavia, who helped me to develop my magic shows on a better level. I started performing poorly with the way that I learn from "Zeljoni" and started to perform magic shows in a much much better way and that was with more communication with audience. Since then I get a lot of new magic requisites and lectures on video cassettes, which are irreplaceable today for learning new tricks and skills. Because of this I changed almost all of my performances in magic shows and it is continuously changing and growing.
Magician's work took me to Stuttgart, Germany, where I lived for four months and performed magic shows on birthday parties, on stage in city halls in those cities around Stuttgart. There I was performing for a couple of months with Marko again after 7 years. Two months I performed by myself magic shows for German audiences and audiences from my country, who worked there. They were very successful magic shows there. You can freely look at my Photo album and see some pictures from those shows. Some of the interesting shows were in the amusement park "Trips drill" near Stuttgart, where I and Marko performed one magic show and made balloons every day during three weeks of school vacation. Then one magic show that stayed in my memory is my own performance in the famous emporium "C&A", which is in main street Konigstra_e in Stuttgart, for Open day 13th of Jun '98. I performed two magic shows and made hundreds of balloons for kids. After my return from Germany I enrich again my performances and activly did magic shows in lots of places for lots of occasions, like I mentioned on the last page of this web site of magician Golub.
Now I am living in Bracknell, Berkshire, England and working in this area.
Order Magic Show today! Link 'Triks' is still under construction.