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-Ebner and Intermediaries

von Herbert Kuhner am 9. November 2020 um 18:05
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein, Polemics, Text, Translation

“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 of poetry by Jeannie Ebner:
    On Dec. 2, 1986 I met Vijay Chadha, editor of Mosaic (an Indian literary review). He told me that Jeannie Ebner made the following statements:
    “Herbert Kuhner is not Austrian. He can neither write in English nor German. He speaks English with a dreadful slang.”
  • Chadha gave me copies of an issue of Mosaic. Jeannie Ebner is represented with a short story translated by Donald Daviau and a poem translated by Beth Bjorklund. Ebner denigrated both of these translations. She is also represented by four poems which are labeled: Translated by the author.“ Chadha told me that these poems were in reality translated by Elaine Boney. However, Ebner made slight changes and insisted on being credited with the translations. Chadha said he will provide me with the Boney translations.
  • I had requested poems from Jeannie Ebner for translated translation for a collection of poetry.
  • Frau Ebner gave me poems, and I translated one of them. I send it to her. She revised the translation, rendering it unpublishable and wanted to be credited as co-translator.

The English and American colleagues I contacted agreed with my assessment. (Considering Vijay’s Chadha’s, information, I seem to be in good company.)

 

Boston University Library

 

A Salad of Malignancies

 

“Unfortunately, the fact that that you are American
and not Austrian or East European
seems to be an insurmountable obstacle
as far as Jeannie Ebner is concerned.
My assertion that you were born in Vienna
and are a resident of Vienna
can change nothing.”
– Letter from Andreas Okopenko, Feb. 22, 1969

“The Commission’s decisions are bound to guidelines
and it rejects your request,
since according to your own information,
you are an American citizen.”
– Jeannie Ebner, Letter, July 8, 1993

“If you call him an American, he’s offended.
If you call him an Austrian, he’s offended.
American or Austrian, he’ll always be a Jew!” (1)
– Jeannie Ebner, author and editor

(I was on the first Board of Podium magazine.
Herr Vogel forced my departure by his insults.
I had been brought to the journal by Wilhelm Szabo.
After I had translated all Board members,
including Herr Vogel, I mentioned that I was
the only member who had not participated in a reading
or had work published in the journal,
Herr Vogel replied: “Shut your mouth!
You are a mediocre author. You can all kiss my ass!

So, that was it. My stint with Podium came to,
and I had to move on .

Alois Vogel, author

I’ve been stomped on for years, and now I’m doing the stomping…. (2)
Kuhner thinks that he is not accepted as an author because he is a Jew. The truth is that he is an inferior author. (3)
– Alois Vogel, author, editor and fellow Board Member

Soon afterward, I was invited to read at the Dominican Church Cultural Center with Margarethe Herzele, whose bilingual Carinthian Love Songs was in preparation. Herr Vogel wrote the organizer, the artist Wolfgang Bergner, that if he did not remove me from them program,he (Vogel) would see to it that his work would blocked.

It is impertinent of him (Kuhner) to call me an anti-Semite. I am that by no means.” (4)
– Alois Vogel, author and editor

(I never referred to Herrn Vogel as an anti-Semite in my conversations or in my writing.
– H.K.)

Quotes by Austrian Luminaries and Notables

 

The Co-Editor Bites the Dust

 

He’s good on details concerning the barbarism of the past. If you’re a poet who writes on the subject, he’s the one to go to since he edits a poetry series. He had a co-editor, who belonged to an older generation. His former colleague, a refined and cultivated older poet, did not have a particularly sanguine life. As a young man, he was inducted and spent six years of his youth wearing a uniform he hated. He was one of those who had to go while Waldheim and others fulfilled their martial duty in the Wehrmacht, which by no means could have been considered the defence force of Austria.

When the older colleague supported the publication of volumes of poetry by two émigrés who had experienced the Third Reich and its repercussions first-hand, he was shouted down and forced to pack it in by his younger colleague. And that was that! This of course is an isolated incident and is atypical. Anti-fascists and philo-Semites in Austria are invariably ready to lend a helping hand to those who were victimized by the Reich.
Players: Manfred Chobot, Franz Richter.
Authors: Wolfgang Fischer, Herbert Kuhner

 

Bodo Hell

“It was unwise of you to review Kuhner’s book.”
– Bodo Hell, author to Lev Detela, who had reviewed Broadsides & Pratfalls for Ex Libris, ORF (Austrian Radio)

“Why did you tell him?”
– Bodo Hell

Decades ago, when I was editing Integration and Impulse, he came to my apartment announced with manuscripts. I published his texts in every issue.

During this time, Menard Press in London published my Broadsides & Pratfalls and discussed them on the ORF program Ex Libris. The winner then called the reviewer and told him that it was „unwise“ to review my book. This told me. I called the award winner again, but he denied saying such a thing and asked me if I suspect anyone of making such comments. Then he called the reviewer and asked why he had told me.

Herbert Kuhner is insignificant as an author and he will never read on our premises.”  [5]
– Dr. Reinhard Urbach, Austrian Literary Society

Herbert Kuhner is a less than mediocre author who would never be able to represent Austria in any way.”
Report by Dr. Wolfgang Kraus, Austrian Literary Society & Austrian Foreign Ministry

Another View: “The list of Austrian poets that Herbert Kuhner has rendered reads like Who’s Who in Austrian Poetry.
– Harry Zohn, Modern Austrian Poetry Journal, Riverside, CA

Welcome back, Harry! And thank you for your translations of Austrian Poets!
– “Nobody”

 

Popp Goes the Wiesel

 

“Herbert Kuhner does not qualify for a writers’ pension. The list of his publications would not even fill one page.”
– Magister Franz-Leo Popp, Director of the Commission for Pensions for Writers at the meeting of the Board on June 19, 1995

 

The Epilogue

 

On March 19, 1990, Herr Rainer Lendl of Edition Atelier wrote to his distributor, “We hereby cancel Herbert Kuhner’s Der Ausschluss from our publishing program. All copies are to be returned to the author.”

Wolfgang Schüssel, Bundespräsident: „Lendl’s merits include the rediscovery of Austrian exile authors.  [6]

Yeah! Thanks a lot, Rainer old boy! (Edition Atelier was a subsidiary of Erhard Busek’s Wiener Journal.)

Thus, I had been provided with a fitting epilogue for my book.

 

Associates

 

Otto Schulmeister, 1989: “There were many swine at the time, not only brown ones…” And he added, “The Revisionists are right about that. Not only Nazis committed crimes. And not only Jews were victims. There were many victims at the time and many since then. And as we see in Israel, Jews can also be oppressors.” Asked whether he regretted what he had written during the Third Reich in National Socialist organs, he replied: “Not in the least!”

Msgr. Otto Mauer, the official “Catholic Caretaker of Souls” Mauer in 1948, three years after the Holocaust: (Online Die Jüdische)
“The Jews have immense influence on communism and capitalism.
They pass themselves off as defenders of humanity…
but they are nothing but a depraved people with a perverted spirit….
They have been condemned to eternal damnation….They invariably choose
the evil path.”  [7]

 

Uninvited

 

I would like to add that although I experienced a Storm Trooper raid
in early years, and my family was decimated in the Shoah,
I am not invited to participate in official commemorative events.
I am not even invited to attend.

 

Erasing It

I cannot extract myself from the past.

During the Third Reich,
we lost everything,
including human life.
Since then,
there have been no amends –
only more of the same
on a spiritual level.

I tried to erase it.
I did not want to have the identity
of being a victim,
but of course it could not be erased.

It is unbearable,
but it has to be borne
so that the follow-up
can be related.

For years,
in order to keep going,
I had tried to bar thoughts
of specific situations of the past
from my mind.

 

 

The other day, when I saw the image
my Aunt Leni and my uncles Fritz and Heinrich
in a packed boxcar, I broke down and wept.

My cousin Karen Sanders (kisanders@sbcglobal.net)
is presently researching the fate of our family members.

 

– Herbert Kuhner

 

[1]  Source: Adolf Opel
[2]  Source: Gunther Kraus
[3]  Source: Johannes Diethart
[4]  Source: Johannes Diethart
[5]  Source: Leo Mazakarini, 1973.
[6]  Wolfgang Schüssel, Österreichischer Bundeskanzler: Jerusalem Post, Nov. 9, 2000; Wolfgang Schüssel, Wiener Zeitung, Nov.      10/11, 2000; Wolfgang Schüssel, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Feb. 15, 2005.
[7]  Hugo Löwy: “Warum Haß?“ Renaissance, No. 10, May, 1948, p. 10: quoted from a lecture by Otto Mauer on April 10, 1948 at the Volkshochschule Alsergrund for the “Circle for Christian and Jewish Problems”; also referred to in No. 18, Jan. 1949; researched by Dr. Evelyn Adunka.

 

 

 

 

-Epigrams

von Herbert Kuhner am 20. September 2020 um 0:31
Veröffentlicht in: Epigrams

Epigrams

The fair sex is indeed fair
but by no means fair.

To love madly usually means
your heart will be broken
in one way or the other.

An erotic ascent to Heaven
is often followed
by an emotional descent to Hell.

You started off as the love of her life
and ended up as an interlude.

In love there are ecstatic moments
but the end invariably comes with a bang.

You’ve been smitten
and then left it the lurch –
that’s the breaks of the game.

Love hurts.
There always seems to be a price to pay
for paradisiacal moments.

You’ll get over it.
You just have to live long enough!

Love turned sour
is the worst kind of being sour.

A dream come true
can turn into the worst nightmare
of your life.

Women give you little pleasure
in one region
and a big pain in another.

The only way to became immortal
is to die in your prime.

Beauty fades and begetting it
is a risky business.
A beautiful princess
and a handsome prince
Should leave things be
and die young.

Only by dying young
can you become eternal.

A beautiful woman who is boring
becomes less and less beautiful
when she bores you.

A woman who may be a bit on the plain side –
but is lively,
becomes ever more attractive
as she goes along.

Women who fall short of being beautiful
can be so appealing,
much more so than beautiful women.
Slight facial flaws can be utterly endearing.

Because man comes from a certain place,
he thinks everything comes from there.
– Alceus

Man wants to return
to the place he came from,
and he can succeed – at least partially.

Reality can destroy the dream;
why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
– George Moore

Once the ice is broken,
you can no longer skate on it.

There’s something
gamey about the act,
but when you’re on Cloud Nine,
it’s all sugar and spice.

Only the emotional element of passion
can cancel out that banality of the act.

There are two things that cannot be depicted –
a rose and sexual organs,
a rose because it is too beautiful
and sexual organs because they are too ugly.
It is the miasma of desire that makes them appealing.

It’s not as if it’s so wonderful:
sex is just like going to the lavatory.
– The romantic Lady Nancy Astor

I am the kind of woman I would run from.
– Nancy Astor on Lady Astor

There are two things that cannot be depicted –
a rose and sexual organs.
A rose because it is too beautiful,
and sexual organs because they are too ugly.
It is the miasma of desire that makes them appealing.

Love has pitched its mansion
on the place of excrement.
– W.B. Yeats

I like the female anatomy as is
and have no wish for revision.
If there is a Creator, kudos are due.

Let us thank religions!
By declaring sex as sinful,
they have even made it more appealing.

If you take the sin out of sex,
You take the fun out of it.

 

more Epigrams are here

-Hitler Meets the Mufti and Otto Mühl

von Herbert Kuhner am 26. August 2020 um 3:22
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics, Satire

Hitler & the Mufti

According to the eminent historian, Bibi Netanyahu, Adolf Hitler did not have murder in mind concerning the Jews. He merely intended to rob them and expel them. But after Poland provoked Germany and started World War II, the borders were sealed.

In a speech before the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Bibi described a meeting between Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem in November of 1941.

Hitler and the Mufti

“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he merely wanted to expel them. He got the idea from the Mufti. Haj Amin al-Husseini said, “If you expel them, they’ll all come here.” “So what should I do with them?” Hitler asks. ‘Burn them!’ the Mufti replies.” [1]

“What a splendid idea, Haj old boy!” says Hitler, Why didn’t I think of that?!

Thank you, Bibi, for filling us in. We will now set about revising history.
‘Cause we thought it was Hitler’s idea.

 

Hitler & Otto Mühl

Nineteen-year old Otto Mühl was the chauffer of Robert Berhardis, who was one of the anti-Hitler plotters of the July attempt on Hitler’s life in 1944.

Hitler gave orders that the young chauffer was to be brought to him.

“Young man, I am going to spare you. I have a task for you. I want you to transform our art so that it will become truly representative of our spirit. We have attuned it to inspire our petit bourgeois adherents. It is now an antiseptic and puerile depiction of diligence.

I want you to transform it so that it represents the true spirit of our movement with all that it entails.
I know that you will do your best in this momentous task and that you will succeed in it with National Socialist honors.“

 

Otto Mühl’s Credo

“The Friedrichshof Lord’s Prayer
Long live the whole!
I must resist temptation to sin against the whole
in sex as well as with my belongings
and in thought and deed.
Everything must be for the good of the whole.
I will terminate the program
that has been impressed on me
by strange ethical persons
and transform it into a social program
that is for the good of the whole.
I think, work, act and feel
exclusively for the whole.
Without the whole I am nothing.” [2]

 

painting by Otto Muehl

 

Hitler trifft den Mufti & Otto Mühl

 

Hitler und den Mufti

Laut dem bedeutenden Historiker Bibi Netanyahu hatte Adolf Hitler keinen Mord an den Juden im Sinn. Er wollte sie nur ausrauben und ausweisen. Doch nachdem Polen Deutschland provoziert und den Zweiten Weltkrieg begonnen hatte, wurden die Grenzen versiegelt.
In einer Rede vor dem zionistischen Weltkongress in Jerusalem beschrieb Bibi ein Treffen zwischen Hitler und dem Mufti von Jerusalem im November 1941.
„Hitler wollte damals die Juden nicht ausrotten, er wollte sie nur ausweisen. Die Idee hatte er vom Mufti. Haj Amin al-Husseini sagte: „Wenn Sie sie ausweisen, werden sie alle hierher kommen.“ „Also, was soll ich mit ihnen machen?“ Fragt Hitler. „Verbrenne sie!“, Antwortet der Mufti. [3]
„Was für eine großartige Idee, Haj alter Junge!“ sagt Hitler, warum habe ich nicht daran gedacht?!
Vielen Dank, Bibi, dass Sie uns informiert haben. Wir werden uns nun daran machen, die Geschichte zu überarbeiten.
Weil wir dachten, es sei Hitlers Idee.

 

Hitler und Otto Mühl

Der neunzehnjährige Otto Mühl war der Chauffeur von Robert Bernardis, der am 20. Juli 1944 Attentat auf Adolf Hitler beteiligt war.
Hitler gab den Befehl, den jungen Chauffeur zu ihm zu bringen:
„Junger Mann, ich werde dich schonen. Ich habe eine Aufgabe für dich. Ich will, dass Du die deutsche Kunst verwandelst, sodass sie repräsentativ für unseren wahren Geist wird. Wir haben sie abgestimmt, ja veredelt, um unsere bürgerlichen Anhänger zu inspirieren. Heute ist sie eine antiseptische und kindliche Darstellung des menschlichen Fleißes. In der Zukunft soll sie den wahren Geist unserer Bewegung zeigen. Ich weiß, dass Du dieser bedeutsamen Aufgabe gewachsen bist und sie erfolgreich realisieren wirst.“

 

Otto Mühls Credo:

Das Friedrichshofer Vaterunser

Es lebe das Ganze
Ich widerstehe der Versuchung,
gegen das Ganze zu sündigen,
Sowohl in der Sexualität, als auch im Besitz,
Sowohl auch in meinem Denken und Handeln,
Alles was ich tue, ist auf das Ganze gerichtet,
Ich werde mein Programm, das ich von fremden,
ethischen Menschen aufgeprägt bekam, auflösen.
Und in ein soziales Programm im Sinne
des Ganzen umfunktionieren.
Ich denke, arbeite, handle und fühle
nur für das Ganze.
Ohne das Ganze bin ich ein nichts. [4]

 

 

[1] haaretz.com, Oct. 21, 2015.
[2] Andreas Schlothauer, Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität, p. 9.
[3] haaretz.com, Oct. 21, 2015.
[4] Andreas Schlothauer: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität, S. 9.

 

paintings by Otto Mühl

 

 

-Peter Handke and Srebrenica

von Herbert Kuhner am 11. August 2020 um 23:47
Veröffentlicht in: Polemics, Politics, Text

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 ass!

 

Handke on the Mothers of Srebrenica

Die Mütter von Srebrenica:
“Überhaupt, diese sogenannten ‚Mütter von Srebrenica‘: Denen glaube ich kein Wort, denen nehme ich die Trauer nicht ab. Wäre ich Mutter, ich trauerte alleine. Es gab die Mütter von Buenos Aires, sehr richtig, die hatten sich zusammengeschlossen und die Militärdiktatoren gefragt, was mit ihren Kindern geschehen ist. Aber diese billige Nachahmung ist scheußlich. Es gibt die Mütter von Buenos Aires, und das genügt.“

Handke’s comment of on the Mothers of Srebrenica in my translation:
“Let me add, these so-called ‚Mothers of Srebrenica‘: I don’t believe a word they say, I don’t believe their grief. If I were a mother, I would grieved alone. There were the mothers of Buenos Aires, quite right, they united and asked the Military Dictators what happened to their children. But this cheap imitation is hideous. There are mothers from Buenos Aires, and that’s it! “

 

Nobelpreis-Literatur-Medaille

 

Elfriede Jelinek:

„Ich glaube, dass der Mensch schlecht ist,
das ist mein Evangelium, und ich meine,
dass man ihn zügeln muss,
weil er sich sonst wie die letzte Ratte verhalten würde.“

“I believe that man is evil; that is my gospel,
and I believe that he must be controlled,
otherwise he’ll behave like a lowdown rat.”

 

Still Looking

I’m still turning the pages of history,
trying to find a benevolent dictator.
– H.K.

 

Artistic Endeavor

I could well envision that murder could be
a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability
would have another status…Thus, art can consist of a crime.”
Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”
– Hermann Nitsch

“Blasphemy, obscenity, charlatanism, sadistic excesses, orgies,
the aesthetics of the cesspool are our moral means.
That includes rape and murder. Murder is an integral part of sex.
It will soon become an ethical necessity to rob banks
and to shoot a random cripple down.”
– Otto Mühl, Actionist

“One of the women, who is now 29 years old, describes
how Mühl forced her to engage in sexual actions
with him in front of the leadership of the commune
at the age of five.”
– Der Spiegel, March 1, 2004

Otto Mühl Exhibit in the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna,
March 3 – May 31, 2000:
“Otto Mühl: Life/Art/Work/
(Original MAK title: Life as a Work of Art)

Otto Mühl’s art and life are sold as an entity.
His deeds are part of the sales pitch.

 

Failure and Success

Adolf Hitler may have failed as an artist of the easel, but in the cruelty category his reputation is unchallenged, according to the staggering amount of his crimes?

At the time, the time he sought to be somewhat secretive about his deeds. Inhumanity had not yet been declared as an art form. Belatedly, today, according to current “creative” precepts and concepts, his artistic career
had not been interrupted at all. He not come upon the idea of simply latching onto his painter past by declaring his gory deeds as creative acts.

Today, Austrian artists commit violent acts in the name of art.
Belatedly, the most famous Austrian will also go down in history
as the greatest artist in all time.

Otto Mühl, who expressed his admiration for our hometown-Braunau-boy, formed his Commune on Third Reich guidelines and has had his life declared as a work of art by the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.

 

New!

The new fascism will not
declare itself as fascism,
but rather as anti-fascism.
– Ignazio Silone

 

It’s a Topsy-Turvy World

“There are alternate facts.”
– Kellyanne Conway,
(not Eric Blair, alias George Orwell)

Truth isn’t always truth.
It is somebody’s version of it.!”
– Rudy Giuliani
(What a lovely way to describe lies!)

The truth has one voice.
Lies are ventriloquism.
– H.K.

 

Changing the Past

Who or what can change the past?
Not even the One They Pray To can do that.
The act completed in the last fraction of a second
is both fact and history.

As the Bard says through Lady Macbeth:
“What’s done cannot be undone.” (5.1. 63-4).

Balderdash!

You can wash it all away
and start out again with a clean slate.

You don’t have to be hampered by facts.
and dogged by unflattering history?

You don’t always have to resort to out-and-out lies;
half-truths will do the trick.

There’s nothing chivalrous about killing civilians.
It’s not anything to be proud of.

But if, God forbid, it has happened, don’t dwell on it,
and do your best to prevent others from dwelling on it!

Life is much more enjoyable
if you have an honorable past.
And if you don’t have one,
you can create one.

Why be burdened by past events?
Just put them out of mind –
and erase all records!

The Turks have deleted the genocide of the Armenians
from the Twentieth Century,
and the Third Reich Revisionists
have transformed the concentration camps
into idyllic recreation centers.

Don’t fret! Just take their examples!

 

The High Art of Creative Cruelty

During the closing stages of the Great War
(which was the forerunner to an even Greater War),
the Turkish authorities indulged in what is referred to
as the Armenian Genocide. The motivation for this event
was their alleged lack of loyalty to the Turkish State –
so the Armenians had it coming to them.

Denial seems to be the Turkish manner of dealing
with these historical proceedings.

When journalists and authors attempt to bring attention
to these past events, they risk being sent to Kingdom Come.

The perpetrators did not engage in simple barbarism,
but rather in the high art of creative cruelty.
They were masters in finding unique ways
of causing their victims to suffer before relieving them with death.

The Soviets, on the other hand, simply executed their victims,
starved them or worked them to death. This is simply
primitive, unrefined murder. Killing was quick, starving was relatively slow
and slave labor was supposed to last for as long as a victim could last.
That’s simply not creative.

The National Socialists were influenced by their Turkish counterparts,
and they carried on the tradition with numerous innovations.

The Ustascha made great efforts to outdo their Nazi allies
and indeed barely succeeded.

The Japanese, not to be left on the sidelines, hit the mark
in Nanking and elsewhere.

The French in Algeria did a good job of emulating the Germans
they had previously fought. (Actually the Vichy Government
was an ally of Nazi Germany, not her foe.)

Graduates of the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia
practiced the fine arts on South American lefties and liberals
with the assistance of Henry Kissinger and the benediction of Pope John Paul.

Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić, a poet lauded by Peter Handke,
did a splendid job of mass murder. Slaughtering 8,000 men and boys
is no simple matter, but they and their henchmen did it without balking
or flinching. Imagine, the gravesite was as high as a small mountain
or as deep as a quarry.

The high art of cruelty lives today, and thanks to the original
Twentieth Century perpetrators, their beneficiaries carry on

in the tradition internationally.

 

Squeamish?

Regretfully, sometimes perpetrators are squeamish about
having committed barbaric deeds. They have the wrong attitude.

Why pray, be ashamed? There is nothing to be ashamed of.
These perpetrators are artists in the true sense of the word.
Innovators should always be proud.

Let us laud them and spread the good word!

 

Addendum:

Japanese Right-Wingers are attempting to wipe
the Massacre of Nanking from the slate of history.
Kudos are due to these purifiers.
Way to go, guys!

Nanking Massacre: ‚The Forgotten Holocaust‚ by Sarah Mah

 

Peter Handke und Srebrenica

Peter Handke sagte:
„Schieben Sie sich Ihre Betroffenheit in den Arsch!“

This has been “mis-translated” to
“You can shove your corpses up your ass!”

My translation:
Shove your dismay up your ass!

Die Mütter von Srebrenica:
“Überhaupt, diese sogenannten ‚Mütter von Srebrenica‘: Denen glaube ich kein Wort, denen nehme ich die Trauer nicht ab. Wäre ich Mutter, ich trauerte alleine. Es gab die Mütter von Buenos Aires, sehr richtig, die hatten sich zusammengeschlossen und die Militärdiktatoren gefragt, was mit ihren Kindern geschehen ist. Aber diese billige Nachahmung ist scheußlich. Es gibt die Mütter von Buenos Aires, und das genügt.“

 

Mord als Kunst

Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass ein Mord durchaus Bestandteil
eines Kunstwerks ist. Das Töten war und ist ausserhalb
des ethischen Urteils.“
– Hermann Nitsch

 

Eine verkehrte Welt



„Es gibt alternative Fakten.“
- Kellyanne Conway,
nicht Eric Blair ,alias George Orwell.

Die Wahrheit ist nicht immer die Wahrheit.
Es kann eine Auffassung davon geben! „
- Rudy Giuliani
(Was für eine wunderbare Art, Lügen zu beschreiben!)

Die Wahrheit hat eine Stimme.
Lügen kommen von Bauchrednern.

 

Die Vergangenheit neu schreiben

Wer oder was kann die Vergangenheit verändern?
Nicht einmal Derjenige, zu dem sie beten, kann das tun.
Eine Tat die in Bruchteil einer Sekunde abgeschlossen wird
ist sowohl Tatsache als auch Geschichte.

Wie Lady Macbeth sagte:
„Was getan wurde,
kann nicht rückgängig gemacht werden.“

Schmarrn!

Alles kann man wegwischen
und neu schreiben!

Warum soll man sich durch Fakten behindern
und verfolgen lassen.

Man muss nicht auf krasse Lügen zurückgreifen:
Halb-Wahrheiten genügen.

Es ist nicht ritterlich, Zivilisten zu ermorden.
Es ist nichts, worauf man stolz sein kann.

Aber wenn – Gott bewahre – es passiert ist,
vergiss es einfach, und versuch zu verhindern,
dass sich andere darüber Gedanken machen!

Das Leben ist viel angenehmer
wenn Du eine ehrenvolle Vergangenheit hast.
Und wenn Du keine hast, kannst Du eine erfinden.

Lass Dich nicht durch negative Ereignisse belasten?
Vergiss sie einfach!
Du kannst alle Datensätze löschen!

 

Die hohe Kunst der kreativen Grausamkeit

 

In der Schlussphase des Ersten Weltkriegs haben die Türken ein Verfahren „entwickelt“, das als der armenische Genozid in die Geschichte eingegangen ist. Angerblich waren die türkischen Armenier nicht loyal gegenüber dem türkischen Staat.

Die Türken haben dieses historische Verfahren einfach aus aus der Geschichte weggewischt. Wenn Journalisten und Autoren versuchen, sich mit diesen Ereignissen auseinanderzusetzen, laufen sie Gefahr, ins Jenseits befördert zu werden.

Die damaligen Täter haben sich nicht einfach nur als Barbaren benommen, sondern sie  haben die hohe Kunst der kreativen Grausamkeit gemeistert. Sie hat neue Wege gesucht, ihren Opfer Leid antun.

Die Sowjets unter Stalin haben einfach ihre Opfer verhungern lassen oder zum Tod durch Arbeit gezwungen. Das ist einfach primitiv und überhaupt nicht kreativ. Stalin hat überhaupt kein Feingefühl gehabt.

Die Nationalsozialisten sind von ihren türkischen Kollegen beeinflusst worden, und sie haben  die Tradition mit zahlreichen Innovationen weitergeführt.

Adolf Hitler ist vielleicht als Maler gescheitert, aber was der Massenmord betrifft, ist sein Ruf unangefochten.

Die Ustascha hat sich sehr bemüht, ihre Nazi-Verbündeten zu übertreffen, und in der Tat ist es ihr gelungen.

Die Japaner haben in Nanking erfolgreich mit allen anderen konkurriert. Die Franzosen haben in Algerien die Deutschen, die sie zuvor bekämpft haben, erfolgreich nachgeahmt.

Die Absolventen der School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia haben die schönen Künste der Grausamkeit praktizierten bei südamerikanischen Linken und Liberalen.

Ratko Mladić und Radovan Karadžić, letzterer von Peter Handke als Dichter gelobt, hat hervorragende Arbeit beim Massenmord vollbracht. Das Schlachten von 8000 Männern und Buben ist keine einfache Sache, aber ihre Schergen haben hervorragende Arbeit geleistet.

Und so weiter und so fort. Die hohe Kunst der Grausamkeit lebt auch heute und wird nicht aussterben. Es wird sich sicherlich immer weiterentwickeln. Bedauerlicherweise gehen manche Täter zögerlich mit ihren Taten um, die sie und ihre Vorgänger  begangen haben. Sie haben die falsche Einstellung!

Warum soll man sich schämen? Diese Täter sind Künstler im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Innovation ist lobenswert, und Pioniere sollen immer stolz sein dürfen.

Japanische Utra-Rechte versuchen das Massaker von Nanking
aus der Geschichte wegzuwischen.
Gut gemacht, Leute!

 

-Timeless Padhi

von Herbert Kuhner am 19. Juni 2020 um 12:00
Veröffentlicht in: Poetry, Text, Translations

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 Passantengewühl
eines sonnigen Spätsommertages
kommt beim Virgin Megastore
wie ich mir einrede schicksalsgewollt
der einstige Undergroundstar
Padhi Frieberger
federnden Schrittes auf mich zu
sein Elan ist ungebrochen
und das Youngster-outfit
kokettiert mit dem Rap
nur im Gesicht
zeigen sich lila Äderchen
und Verwitterungsspuren
etlicher Jahrzehnte
– hallo Hipster lange nicht gesehen –
sagt er schmunzelnd
und berührt sogar
flüchtig meine Grußhand
doch sogleich befällt
gewohnt prophetischer Ernst
des coolen Methusalems Face and Voice –
nein nein
kein Wort über alte Zeiten
außerdem gibt es Zeit ja nicht
egal ob Augenblick oder Ewigkeit
wir leben immer im Jetzt
voll idiotisch was sich gerade so abspielt
kein Wort über alte Zeiten
außerdem gibt es Zeit ja nicht
egal ob Augenblick oder Ewigkeit
wir leben immer im Jetzt
ist allerdings voll idiotisch
was sich gerade so abspielt
schau sie an die Typen
die da gestresst rumirren
dressierte Sportkretins
oder ausgefressene Trottel
in Saufeder
aber sündteurer Konfektion
und Scheißen mit Handy natürlich
eine Inszenierung
Idioten für Idioten –
nach einigen
feierlichen Schweigesekunden
klärt er mich wie schon so oft
schonungslos
über bildende Kunst und Musik auf
erstmals geschah dies in der ADEBAR
ich glaube es war 1955
ganz und gar timeless Padhi
gerät er dabei
zunehmend in Erregung –
weißt Du für mich
zählen immer nur Protagonisten
nur sie sind Genies
dynamisch wahrhaft und unverbraucht
genau musst Du schauen
siehst Du die meine roten Haare
… eine Hommage
an Van Gogh
und Gerry Mulligan –

 

Timeless Padhi

Arriving in the 3rd millennium,
I am aware of it on a daily basis.
I have become an elderly old man,
unlike Mariahilferstrasse, which gets
noticeably younger in the afternoon
of a sunny summer day,
while passers-by head for
the Virgin Megastore, as I ruminate
about Padhi Frieberger,
the subterranean star
who approaches me with elan,
dressed to kill as usual, fine veins, ,
etched in his weather-beaten face:
Hello pal, long time no see,
says he with a smile
and the prophetic coolness
of his Methuselah-like voice,
and he fleetingly touches
my extended hand.
No, no, we won’t waste a word
about the past!
Now couldn’t be more idiotic!
Every word about the past
is a wasted word – besides,
we don’t have time
for a moment, or for eternity.
Look at those
who struggle and strain!
And look at sports-morons,
who are constantly in training,
and just take a gander
at the drunks and the gluttons,
as well as the boobs who are glued
to their cells phones,
idiots dealing with idiots!
Then after a solemn silence,
he clues me in
on what goes on in the art world,
just as he did in the ADEBAR,
way back in ’55.
Padhi is committed,
and he gets more worked up
as he goes along
depicting the present situation.
“I only identify with
tried-and-true brilliance.
Do you see traces
of red in my hair?
They are a tribute to
Van Gogh, Vivaldi
and Gerry Mulligan

translated by Herbert Kuhner

 

 

Der Hundefänger

der Hundefänger
geht wieder um
ich habe ihn gesehen
und es war kein Traum
an diesem hellen Tag
und wo er umgeht
hat Menschenblut
keinen Preis
und totgeglaubte Gespenster
werden wieder lebendig
noch leben wir
noch lachen wir
noch schlemmen wir
noch tanzen wir
noch reisen wir
noch wird vielen Ärschen
der Arsch vergoldet
doch ich habe
den Hundefänger gesehen
und es war kein Traum
an diesem hellen Tag
und wo er umgeht
ist auch der Kannibale
nicht weit

 

The Dog Catcher


the dog catcher
is at it again
I saw him
and it was not in a dream
on this sunny day
and wherever he is
there’s no price
on human blood
and ghosts that we thought
were dead
come back to life

we’re still alive
we’re still laughing
we’re still feasting
we’re still d
we’re still traveling
a lot of
are still gildI’ve seen the dog catcher
on this sunny day
and it was not in a dream
and wherever he is
the cannibal
is not so far off

 

 

Padhi Frieberger

 

 

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Herbert Kuhner ist Übersetzer von neun Sammlungen österreichischer Lyrik, darunter Austrian Poetry Today / Österreichische Lyrik heute. Schocken Books, New York; Carinthian Slovenian Poetry, Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt / Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio; Hawks and Nightingales: Current Burgenland Croatian Poetry, Braumüller Verlag, Wien / Slavica Publishers, Columbus, Ohio.

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