Svengali

As Svengali refers to a person in the background that influenced another person or even manipulated, for example, a particularly influential manager of an artist. The term has a negative staining since its origin in the horror story Trilby by George du Maurier in 1894, in a completely unmusical girl named Trilby is transformed into a singing diva of hypnosis from the demonic musical genius Svengali. The manipulation of flies on with a guest performance as Svengali hypnosis can not perform due to a heart attack. Based on this model some movies several silent films were made, including (partial titled Trilby ), 1927 an eponymous film starring Paul Wegener (directed by Gennaro Righelli ) and 1931 with John Barrymore as Svengali ( Director: Archie Mayo ). 1954 embodied him Donald Wolfit in Svengali (directed by Noel Langley, with Hildegard Knef ) and in 1983 in a TV movie of the same name Peter O'Toole ( Director: Anthony Harvey, with Jodie Foster).

As a Svengali deck is a term given in a way manipulated card game in the magic that the audience always draws the same card.