- When the interest at his shows waned at the end of the 50s he was no longer able to achieve the former success. Finally he gave up his show tours and settled down in Fornsbach where he founded the "Kalanag Studio".
- His performing troupe consisted of his wife, Gloria De Vos and 40 to 50 other persons. A portion of his mammoth production was also on the Ed Sullivan Show.
- Schreiber took advantage of the economic confusion following the cessation of WWII, to emerge within a few short years with one of the most lavish and indeed last touring illusion spectaculars of its kind.
- Rumors flew that Kalanag had used political pressure to steal the illusion show from Alois Kassner, the "Thurston of Germany" who disappeared from magic for a number of years after WWII.
- During the time hie worked for the film business he remained true to the magic. Among others he took over the editorship of the magazine "Magie" in 1927 and at that time he chose his pseudonym Kalanag.
- Helmut Schreiber was fascinated by magic at a young age and after he finished his education at the University Munich and at the Institute of Technology in Munic he executed first congresses for magic.
- The "Who's Who in Magic" page in the September 1931 of the Sphinx, he reports his birthday as January 23, 1893.
- While on tour in America in 1956, Kalanag was plagued by the distribution of leaflets calling for a boycott of his show because of his alleged Nazi background. However, he also helped release magician Jac Olten from a German POW camp in 1940, giving him magic props and bookings as well as his freedom.
- Because he was not able to earn his living as a magician he worked full-time for the film business first as a production manager and later as a producer. He was responsible as a producer in 1928 for the first time for the movie "Alraune" .
- The Kalanag Magical Musical Revue carried the magician and his wife Gloria De Vos worldwide from the late 1940s until his death in 1963.
- His show was said to have elaborate sets, consisting of many costume changes and made use of confederates. He was noted for Levitation illusion.
- The film producer Helmut Schreiber was able to launch two successful careers. On the one hand he was a busy film producer and production manager till the end of the 30s, on the other hand he became a successful magician after World War II under the pseudonym Kalanag.
- He developed an illusion show picking the stage name from the East Indian word kala nag (from Kipling's Jungle Tales) meaning "black snake", thinking that outside of Germany people might find Schreiber hard to pronounce.
- His shows wowed a always growing audience and at the peak of his career he occupied about 50 persons for his shows. It followed tours through countries like Spain, Sweden and Great Britain and finally followed appearances outside Europe in South Africa, Brazil and the USA.
- Thank to his good connections to the then rulers like Joseph Goebbels he not only became an important personality in the film business but also obtained the presidency of the magic circle which had a direct influence to the magicians who were allowed to perform in Germany.
- During the war, Kalanag was closely associated with members of the Nazi party including Goebbels, Göring and Hitler.
- After the war he was no longer allowed to work because of his connection to the NSDAP and he was longer able to work as an actor. Instead of that he saw the chance to earn his living as a magician. He soon launched successful stage shows decorated with erotic dancers.
- Today there is much controversy among the German magic fraternity, some holding him in contempt for his coercive use of illusion in the services of political power, while others acclaim his talents as an opportunistic but skillful performer and grand master of illusion.
- Hitler's "Minister of Magic" may not be remembered as well as many before him due to his dubious and what many may call a dastardly past.
- Kalanag just before his death was invited onto the Ed Sullivan Show in the United States where he presented his now famous Chair Illusion. Possibly his last public performance that must have been a privilege for someone with such a controversial background and career.
- As president of the Magischer Zirkel Von Deutchland he was also involved in the anti-Semitization campaign against the country's Jewish magicians.
- He was noted for his sawing in half dressed as a surgeon, and used a beautiful black cheetah called Simbo that was a gift from the late Haillie Selassie of Ethiopia.
- With his extensive background with film, as an executive of the Tobis Film Corporation he was appointed by the Reichminister Goring himself as chief of the large Bavarian Film Corporation that was responsible for over 150 movies that included propaganda films.
- After his death in 1963 aged 60, his wife tried unsuccessfully to sell the whole show and even offered it to Siegfried and Roy who declined the offer.
- While Kalanag found favour with the David Risley Gallery Kalanag Nazi hierarchy, another Austrian Jewish magician Erik Jan Hanussen (1888-1933) lost favour. Hanussen was a hypnotist, occultist, psychic clairvoyant and obvious charlatan who Hitler retained as his confidant and personal forecaster. For a few years he maintained this liaison with Hitler to whom he taught the Fuhrer much of his ability to speak confidently and rousingly to influence the German populous. After a strange fire that Hanussen had predicted he was found murdered under strange circumstances. Herein lays another weird and fascinating story of its own. Hitler relied on Hanussen for his occult interpretation of future events and often relied on his forecasts when making major decisions. However as his last predictions came to fruition failed he was eliminated.
- He performed for the Fuhrer at his Berghof Retreat and mingled freely among the Nazi elite. While performing for Hitler at his Berghof retreat, Kalanag unobtrusively managed to up load 150 Deutschmarks into his pocket that greatly surprised the Fuhrer.
- In 2008 an exhibition was arranged in England by Johnathan Allen that brought out more about the personality of the illusionist through a selection of his many photographs, rather than concentrating on his talent as a stage performer.
- By this time much of his clandestine past had been disclosed and most magicians chose not to be associated with the Kalanag name.
- Kalanag presented a very authentic stage version of the famed 'Indian Rope Trick'. A coil of rope was shown, Kalanag played an Eastern flute and the rope mysteriously rose up off the floor high above the stage. A small boy then climbed the rope only to vanish with the boy's body parts dropping to the floor as the rope fell. The boy appeared once again from a basket on stage none the worse for his ordeal.
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