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- Birth nameHelmut Schreiber
- Helmut Ewald Schreiber was a German film producer during the late 1920s through the end of the Third Reich. By the end of the war he was production chief at Bavaria Film in Munich. After the war, he became world famous as a stage magician, performing under the name "Kalanag".
- IMDb mini biography by: Richard Hatch <hatch@ghg.net>
- SpouseAnneliese Voß(February 7, 1942 - 1960) (divorced)
- 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.
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