We want to thank the following people without whose direct or indirect support the publication of the book would not have been possible.

Special thanks to:

Michelle Spillner for her photographs, time and patience, Jogo for the excellent drawings, scanning and working extra-hours, Stephan Kirschbaum and Peter Gunn for contributing their ideas, Thomas Verscht for his last-minute laptop-rental, Hannes Höller for digging through his archives, Max Maven for supplying the pointing story as well as writing the foreword. Stefan Stefans for expanding the loan-terms of the Magic Circle of Germany library, Dr. Pat Haug for translating the chapter on theory and last but not least Heinz' mother for tea and cookies.

The credits have been given according to the best of our ability and with the help of Reinhard Muller, Max Maven and Richard Kaufman. If they are incomplete we beg for mercy.

The authors
(Helge Thun, Thomas Fraps, Jorg Willich)