In the early 1930s, Erik Jan Hanussen was Germany’s most highly acclaimed mentalist. But while Hanussen could hypnotize women into “the throes of orgasm” and use handwriting to discern intimate ...

, or were deeply immersed, in the occult is an enduring subplot of World War II. You could probably learn more about it right now if you channel-surfed over to the History and Military channels.

In the weeks leading up to Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Reichschancellor on Jan. 30, 1933, there was nothing inevitable about the Austrian corporal’s ascension to power. Results of the 1932 November ...

Der Magier Jan Erik Hanussen tanzte mit seiner Zeit auf dem Vulkan. Wie Adolf Hitler, der mit den Nationalsozialisten am 30. Januar 1933 die Macht ergriff, verführte der Hellseher die Menschen mit ...

Erik Jan Hanussen looked out at the sea of bewildered, startled faces and knew he had them. It was the mid-1920s, and Hanussen was playing to sold-out audiences in Berlin, where curious crowds would ...

Erik Jan Hanussen psychic, hypnotist, astrologer, amateur detective and publisher of tabloids was born Herschmann-Chaim Steinschneider in 1889 in a Viennese jail cell and murdered in Berlin in 1933 on ...

Where else but in the annals of Jewish history does a boy born to a pair of impoverished runaways become a world-famous mind reader, psychic, astrologer, crime fighter, newspaper publisher, novelist ...

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy ...

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy ...

Mit der Uraufführung von Stefan Heyms „Der große Hanussen“ findet Klaus Hemmerle aktuellen Bezug zum Krieg in der Ukraine. Wir klären, ob sich ein Besuch des Stücks an der Esslinger Landesbühne lohnt.