The MAGIC Telescope will be able to make a major contribution to GRB research by providing high sensitivity measurements in the (for GRBs) essentially unexplored regime above 10 GeV. The high counting rates in strong bursts will also permit to study the shape of the light-curve in more detail than previously possible (time resolutions of the order of 1 s). Search for small delays with respect to the low energy emission is thus possible. As an interesting side-result this may provide one of the best possible lower limits to the quantum gravity energy scale as pointed out by Amelino-Camelia et al. (1998).
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