Overview

He was one of the most enigmatic figures in the German entertainment industry: the magician and film producer Helmut Schreiber, alias Kalanag. He began his career as a producer of anti-Semitic films and Hitler's "court magician". After the war, he managed a new start as Kalanag with a gigantic exotic magic show. He went on tour worldwide and became a kind of David Copperfield of the 1950s. He left a lasting mark on magicians like Siegfried and Roy and is still revered as an idol by parts of the magic scene. But surely his greatest coup was how he managed to conjure away his past and use deception, tricks and trickery to be a winner time and again. Kalanag, a German career.