A Day in the Park There had been nothing, eventful in my life. Just school and then college. I had been an average student. Not bad to look at. Not that my looks were extraordinary. Of course there had been[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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The Key “It is incomprehensible to me how any Jew could ever return to the killing grounds. You chose to go to Hell and then you complain that the landscape is littered with devils.” – Cynthia Ozick, writer Before returning[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A White Knight, an Elderly Damsel and Three Black Brigands Al Gore actually won the presidency in 2000. Bush and his cronies cheated him out of it. If the true winner had been instated, there would have been no[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
“Past” Events A German Translation (pdf-file) is available here:Ebner und die Vermittler I found this account of past Events among my papers, which I am going through for Boston University Library, where my work is collected. Protocol concerning Translators[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Herbert Kuhner Peter Handke and Srebrenica: Handke Quote, mistranslated Peter Handke said: „Schieben Sie sich Ihre Betroffenheit in den Arsch!“ This has been mis-translated as “You can shove your corpses up your ass!” My translation: Shove your dismay up your[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Eugen Bartmer © from C’est la Vie Bibliothek der Provence Timeless Padhi im 3. Jahrtausend angekommen wird täglich mir bewusst nun bin auch ich endgültig ein alter Alter die Wiener Mariahilferstraße dagegen ist auffällig jünger geworden im nachmittäglichen[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Too Much Cotton Orson Welles reaped great praise for Touch of Evil, a sloppy job compared with Kane, but nevertheless with moments of greatness like all post-Kane films. A corpulent Welles plays a dishevelled cop, but he felt needed a[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Interdenominational Occurrences Toni Faber, Chaplain of St. Stephan’s Cathedral priest extolls an artist: “I have much in common with Hermann Nitsch. I have always a fan of this artist. I even have an original Nitsch painting in my apartment.” [1][…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Überkonfessionelle Ereignisse Stephanskirche Dompfarrer Toni Faber ist ein Nitsch Fan „Mit Hermann Nitsch verbindet ihn viel. Er war immer ein Fan des Künstlers und hat sogar einen Original-Nitsch in seiner Wohnung hängen.“[1] Auszüge aus Die Eroberung von Jerusalem[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Es ist alles so kompliziert © Martin Luksan Okt.2019 Herbert Kuhners Geschichte ist die des jüdischen Autors und Übersetzers, der nach Wien zurückkehrte und vom Betrieb der Literatur mehr oder weniger „ausgeschlossen“ wurde. Warum und in welcher Weise ist interessant.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
“Fine” Klu-Kluxers and Others During a Klu-Klux-Nazi rally in Charlottesville on August 11 to 12, 2017, civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed when a Klu-Kluxer rammed his car into anti-fascist demonstrators. Donald Trump comments: “You had people that were[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Marilyn and a Guy Called Joe When Laurence Olivier directed Marilyn in The Prince and the Showgirl, she and Paula Strasberg her “dramatic coach” made him wish he had never been born. And after completion of the film, Larry went[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Black-and-White and Color In the old days, there were black-and-white films. Then color came in. There was Technicolor, and the cheapie versions were Cinecolor, Eastmancolor and trucolor. Color was mostly for luxury A-Films. It was a matter of cost. Later[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
What’s the Difference? and Other Political Aspects What’s the difference between Them and Us? Their scoundrels are imposed on them. We elect ours. You can force dictatorship on a population, But you cannot force democracy on a population. There’s[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
VALIE EXPORT Goes Guggeheim & Jewish Museum Read the entire story here
Willy, Herby and Harry: Better Late than Never The Assembly-Line Prince/Der Fießbandprinz was completed in 1973. I was 37 at the time. I had a real-life protagonist, Herb Andress. He was my age. I am now in my mid-eighties. My[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Film Accents and Contractions Have you noticed that in most American films set in foreign locations, the actors playing the foreigners use accents and they don’t use contractions? That is because, although they are actually speaking English, they want to[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Catching an Image For three decades I’ve been passing the display window of a photographer in my neighborhood. He takes bad photos, and I have yet to find a good one in his window. My question is: can’t he take[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Samuel Laster, Founder & Editor of “Die Jüdische” Samuel Laster and I had a mutual friend, the late Ernst Meir Stern, a man of integrity. We miss him. We both had the privilege of being published his journal, Der Bund.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Whose side are you on? Here’s what I wrote about Napoleon: Yes, the Napoleonic Code was a remarkable and laudable document, but it was brought to other nations by the sword. Napoleon had no qualms about summary executions and[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …