The Genii Forum

Richard Hatch

Hi Richard, what time is your discussion repeated? I looked in at 8am and 9am EST - ??? Thanks, JonT Jonathan, alas, the repeat was at 3 a.m. this morning EST. The schedule times were the times in Rome (CEST). I don't believe any other replays are planned or YouTube postings. I have been asked to r...

Richard Hatch

The hardcover edition of Dr. Herwig's book is now available in America (still in German, though). Previously, only the kindle version was available. I think magic collectors will want it, even if they don't read German. https://www.amazon.com/gro%C3%9Fe-Kalanag-Zauberer-Vergangenheit-verschwinden/dp...

Richard Hatch

At the best resolution and highest magnification of that photo that I can find, it might be this "NSDAP Supporters" pin (there are several variants, but all that I have found have the same basic design): https://hannasmilitaria.com/nsdap-supporters-pin/ Actually, with the high resolution ...

Richard Hatch

At the best resolution and highest magnification of that photo that I can find, it might be this "NSDAP Supporters" pin (there are several variants, but all that I have found have the same basic design):
https://hannasmilitaria.com/nsdap-supporters-pin/

Richard Hatch

I guess that in the photo of Hitler with Kalanag, Kalanag wears the N.S.D.A.P.-Ehrenzeichen (NSDAP Badge of Honor) on his reverse. You have better eyes than I do, Dr. Solka! That would be most interesting if it could be verified. I assume you mean the photo of Hitler and Schreiber with Hitler's dog...

Richard Hatch

The United Magicians for the World schedule has been posted online (subject to change without notice) and the good news is that many of the presentations will be replayed 12 hours after the livestream including my conversation with Dr. Herwig on the topic of "Was Kalanag a Nazi and does it mat...

Richard Hatch

Yeah, those photos of Schreiber/Kalanag performing at the slave labor camp Kohnstein (where the V2 rockets were assembled) are pretty sobering. In a footnote about it in his book, Dr. Herwig notes that he was unable to confirm another author (Rolf Aurich)'s contention that the audience did not inclu...

Richard Hatch

I'm not sure, Richard. It is mentioned in the "Magie" in 1944 (special issue "Arbeitstagung in Bad Aussee", p. 6) that the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords was awarded to Schreiber by the Fuehrer at his headquarter (late in 1943 or early in 1944) after Schreiber's trip with...

Richard Hatch

I think: Due to the German prohibition of betraying trick secrets, it should be generally accepted outside Germany that Kalanag was an active fighter of the most secret resistance. His resistance fights have been so top secret that nobody and even the Fuehrer himself couldn't know about them, altho...

Richard Hatch

The United Magicians for the World schedule has been posted online (subject to change without notice) and the good news is that many of the presentations will be replayed 12 hours after the livestream including my conversation with Dr. Herwig on the topic of "Was Kalanag a Nazi and does it matt...

Richard Hatch

Malte Herwig, author of the excellent but controversial new biography of Helmut Schreiber (Kalanag) featured on the cover and excerpted in the June issue, will be speaking on this topic at the upcoming United Magicians for the World free streaming event. His presentation is currently scheduled for 4...

Richard Hatch

Berglas is also featured in Malte Herwig's controversial new book on Kalanag (excerpted for the Genii Cover story). His uncle Alexander Berglas was a member of the German Magic Circle before Jews were excluded from membership in 1936 and David Berglas was hired by Schreiber in late 1960 for a German...

Richard Hatch

Barnes & Noble is advertising that only its edition of the forthcoming book, David Copperfield's History of Magic , will include an extra chapter about Orson Welles: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/david-copperfields-history-of-magic-david-copperfield/1013620821?ean=9781982190743 No doubt Coppe...

Richard Hatch

Tonight's episode of NCIS: Los Angeles featured a character identified as "CIA Officer Steven Erdnase". The episode's writer and director (who also had a guest staring role) is "Frank Military". Anyone know if he's a magic fan?

Richard Hatch

This new documentary on German television has some great early footage of the pair from their cruise ship days, as well as lots of other interesting stuff. I was able to watch it here in the USA at this link:
https://tinyurl.com/ypu2mr6y

Richard Hatch

The European History of Magic Conference is still slated to take place in London September 9-12:
https://emhc2021.com/

Richard Hatch

Magic Collectors Expo in Las Vegas is still on for August 19-21, even though Magic Live (which was to be just after it) has been postponed. I understand it is sold out with a waiting list.

Richard Hatch

This doesn't help with contemporary magician/policemen, but, historically, super collector Chet Karkut of Connecticut and gambling collector (and Scarne associate) Audley Walsh of New Jersey come to mind as law enforcement professionals who were also active magicians. My guess is that they were both...

Richard Hatch

I've just read a funny chapter in Malte Herwig's book where David Berglas remembers how he taped about a dozen TV shows with Schreiber-Kalanag as producer in Germany in 1960. Apparently it was an early panel show that had psychics and other freaks perform their feats for a mixed panel of judges (in...

Richard Hatch

As a counterpoint to the Kalanag story, there is currently a proposal to rename a street in Berlin after a Jewish scholar of magic, Guenther Dammann, who was a victim of the Holocaust, as were his two brothers. This proposal has received support from David Copperfield and the President of the Berlin...

Richard Hatch

https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/article231815203/Wissmannstrasse-Copperfield-schlaegt-neuen-Namen-vor.html

Richard Hatch

More thoughts on Erdnase from my interview last December with Alex Romanoff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i32nZ9lyTBY

Richard Hatch

Happy to report I did get my March issue on March 1st or 2nd, pretty much on schedule, here in northern Utah. Looking forward to "the rest of the story" in the April issue.

Richard Hatch

There is a zoom meeting tomorrow at 6 p.m. Berlin time (noon East Coast Time) about changing the name of Wissmannstrasse in Berlin. The Magic Circle of Berlin will be proposing that it be changed to Günther-Damann-Strasse. Dammann wrote three books while living with his family on this street, includ...

Richard Hatch

Correction: This movie is on Amazon, not Netflix. I don’t recall hearing the name James Podell.

Richard Hatch

In the new Netflix movie, "One Night in Miami", about a meeting in 1964 of NFL star Jim Brown, singer Sam Cooke, preacher Malcom X and the future Muhammad Ali (then still Cassius Clay), in the first few minutes a night club owner/booker at the Copacabana Nightclub in New York tells Sam Coo...

Richard Hatch

Here's a teaser video in English by German journalist, Malte Herwig, author of a new biography of Kalanag (Helmut Schreiber) to be published in Germany if a few weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxrxjwm78E Amazon in the US does advertise the kindle version will be available March 22 and includ...

Richard Hatch

A young lady in Israel raised over half a million dollars with an indiegogo campaign to create a deck where the Queens were equal to the Kings and 2 Jacks were replaced by 2 Princesses. Now she's well past her goal on a second version, with more ethnicities represented: https://www.indiegogo.com/pro...

Richard Hatch

Wow! Thanks for posting that!

Richard Hatch

Ondrej, thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to the future installments!

Richard Hatch

My anniversary is December 31st, so it only works exactly once a year for me!

Richard Hatch

PS: So the range of answers will always be 2xcurrent year, or 2xcurrent year minus 1 (as for your wife) or 2xcurrent year minus 2 (in the case of your mother). In the case of this year, 4042, 4041 and 4040. Easy enough to remember the 2nd and 1st words on line 4 of page 40, you just need to give the...

Richard Hatch

Sure, it will work for the current year when both your birthday and anniversary have passed, since birth year plus age then equals current year and years married plus year married then equal the current year. Apparently you and your wife got married before January 21st and your birthday was also ear...

Richard Hatch

Chris Wasshuber has just published a digital version of my December 1999 MAGIC article, "Searching for Erdnase", which is basically the talk I gave at the 1999 Los Angeles Conference on Magic History, just prior to David Alexander's amazing presentation revealing his theory of W. E. Sander...

Richard Hatch

I'd add Portuguese as likely a language had a good command of. He did well in Brazil. According to contemporary reports, his German and English were heavily accented, which probably added to his unique charm.

Richard Hatch

Marco, the first 133 pages are typeset transcriptions of the letters (following a few pages of introductory material). The remaining 200 plus pages are reproductions of the original handwritten letters. The originals are very hard to read in this format (and likely in their original state), so the t...

Richard Hatch

A book of correspondence from Blanche Corelli, the daughter of Compars (Carl) Herrmann and his first wife, the opera singer Róza Csillag, to a young American has just been published. There are surprising number of magical references. Obviously to her father, her uncle Alexander and Aunt Adelaide, bu...

Richard Hatch

Found an online source. Thanks!

Richard Hatch

Does anyone on this forum have access to the May-June 1929 issue of the French JOURNAL DE LA PRESTIDIGITATION, number 47? Looking for the discussion of DeBiere and AMAC. Thanks!

Richard Hatch

With his genius for publicity, Uri Geller managed to grab some headlines on New Year's Eve by doing his spoon bending while getting vaccinated: https://news.yahoo.com/uri-geller-performs-spoon-trick-162733219.html

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