TOPAS - Magic & Comedy

TOPAS is one of the most successful German illusionists in the world. He has been crowned World Champion of Illusions twice and won the Golden Magic Wand from Monaco. For 30 years, he has been a star and member of the elite Top Ten Club of the world's greatest magicians.

Audiences have come to know TOPAS as a masterful illusionist who can make entire busloads vanish. But in Germany, he also performs under his real name THOMAS FRÖSCHLE as a witty cabaret artist, and increasingly establishes himself on television as a comedian. Rather than black magic, he relies on black humor delivered with brilliant cleverness. Sharp-tongued, quick-witted, and never at a loss for a punchline, FRÖSCHLE commands his audience as a comedian just as effectively. He won the largest German comedy and cabaret competition - the 8th Hamburg Comedy Pokal.

Whether magician or comedian - both experts and audiences agree that this cosmopolitan is above all a first-rate entertainer. Like all great illusionists, TOPAS is a perfectionist who takes his work very seriously. Yet the lighthearted ease with which he presents himself has nothing to do with mysterious magic or the shimmering abracadabra hidden behind high-tech effects that audiences have seen from many magicians. TOPAS always presents his art with the disarming nonchalance of a stand-up comedian. Conversely, on the cabaret stage he performs with the technical virtuosity and surprise effects of a comedy magician.

At home and during his extensive travels around the globe, TOPAS constantly develops new magic tricks, writes material for his comedy programs, and refines the details of his performances. He performs approximately 200 shows per year. In Las Vegas, Paris, and Beijing; in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, and Stuttgart. Any hobbies? "Yes - magic."