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-Laying the Groundwork: Luther to Streicher

von Herbert Kuhner am 14. Dezember 2017 um 18:00
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Laying the Groundwork:
Luther to Streicher

Julius Streicher, publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, took on the role of disciple while the dock at the Nuremberg Trials.

“Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants‘ dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution. In the book ‘The Jews and Their Lies,’ Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.”

Here are some segments from the aforementioned book by Martin Luther:

“What will happen even if we do burn down the Jews‘ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. For our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

“Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God.

“Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security.

“However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God’s wrath.

“Alas, it cannot be anything but the terrible wrath of God which permits anyone to sink into such abysmal, devilish, hellish, insane baseness, envy, and arrogance. If I were to avenge myself on the devil himself I should be unable to wish him such evil and misfortune as God’s wrath inflicts on the Jews, compelling them to lie and to blaspheme so monstrously, in violation of their own conscience. Anyway, they have their reward for constantly giving God the lie.

“Over and above that we let them get rich on our sweat and blood, while we remain poor and they such the marrow from our bones.

“Let the government deal with them in this respect, as I have suggested. But whether the government acts or not, let everyone at least be guided by his own conscience and form for himself a definition or image of a Jew.

“However, we must avoid confirming them in their wanton lying, slandering, cursing, and defaming. Nor dare we make ourselves partners in their devilish ranting and raving by shielding and protecting them, by giving them food, drink, and shelter.

“First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians.

“Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.

“Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them.

“Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb.

“Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like.

“Sixth, I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping. The reason for such a measure is that, as said above, they have no other means of earning a livelihood than usury, and by it they have stolen and robbed from us

“Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Gen 3[:19]}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.

“But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews‘ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. For our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire.”

End of segments.

These words are from the initiator of the Protestant branch of Christianity. I can’t help but ask: If you hang the “Founder’s” disciples at Nuremberg for having done it, how can you honor the man who provided the playbook for what they did?

-A Volunteer

von Herbert Kuhner am 14. Dezember 2017 um 17:48
Veröffentlicht in: Text

A Volunteer

“For those who can fight, and resist, and stick together, and stick to their guns, I have the greatest respect! Yes, even if Hitler were living now, he would also admit that the Jews are a spunky race. – I would be ready to join them now and help them in their fight! – No, I am not joking! Absolutely! I am not joking! – And do you know why? Because the democratic world is too weak and isn’t fit to exist! I warned them for 25 years, but now I see that the Jews have determination and spunk. They will yet dominate the world, mark my word! And I would be glad to help lead them to victory because they are strong and tenacious, and I know Jewry. I have spunk too! And I can stick to my guns! – And if the Jews would be willing to accept me as one of them, I would fight for them, because when I believe in something, I know how to fight!

“I have studied them so long, that I suppose I have adapted myself to their characteristics – at least I could lead a group in Palestine. I am not joking. I’ll give it to you in writing. I’ll make a proposition. Let me address a gathering at Madison Square Garden in New York. – It would be a sensation!

“Oh, I don’t think we have exterminated as many as they say, I don’t think it was six million. I figure it was perhaps four million. And according to my figures there were 16 million Jews in the world, including those of mixed blood, but they are spread out in important positions all over the world, and they are destined to rule the world, and since I know their plans so well, I could help. Of course I will have to be given a furlough after the sentence.”[1]

These words were spoken by Julius Streicher on July 26, 1949 to G. M. Gilbert, the official American court psychologist at the Nuremberg Trial, on July 26, 1946.

Yes, the man who was editor of Der Stürmer, the official Nazi Party anti-Semitic Newspaper for a quarter of a century, volunteered to go to Palestine to help Jews in establishing a Jewish state.

No, you can’t laugh about that since Streicher, not only stirred up hatred for a quarter of a century, but he helped organize pogroms and participated in them. So there is no laughing or chuckling.

Streicher was appointed gauleiter (district leader) of Franconia by Hitler, but he was stripped of that post in 1940. What were his transgressions? He slandered Hermann Göring, claiming that his fellow Nazi was impotent that that Hermann’s daughter was a test tube baby. And he was accused of being corrupt. What was corruption? Streicher not only stole from Jews, but also from his fellow Nazis. However, due to Hitler’s intervention, he was able to keep his editorial post. After all, who could do a better job at demeaning Jews than Julius?

“If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em!” is the way it’s put in the States. So Streicher offered to go to Palestine on “furlough.” Well, the judges didn’t have “furlough” in mind and Streicher’s last walk took him up wooden steps. But if he had been able to go to Jerusalem, the Jews there
would have made short shrift of him.

-Boys Will Be Boys (2)

von Herbert Kuhner am 12. Dezember 2017 um 13:32
Veröffentlicht in: Politics

Launching

Helen went off to Troy with Paris,
leaving King Menelaus behind in Sparta.

Helen had the face “that launched a thousand ships,”
that carried the Greeks to fight a war that lasted a decade.

Monica was in the last location
that should have served
as a doppelganger for the boudoir
with a partner who had been
Paris many times over.

Monica has the mouth that launched a thousand ships,
planes, helicopters, tanks, military vehicles and
thousands of troops, male and female
to fight in a war that would ignite
a conflagration with no end in sight.

Peccadillos and Sinking

Bill’s peccadillos enabled George to sink Al,
and later enabled Donald to sink Hillary
by deflecting from his own peccadillos
by bringing Bill’s to the fore

Married?

“You know, Charlie, I’ve pretty much lived my entire life
as if I wasn’t married to her at all.”
– Bill Clinton. The Charlie Rose Show, Dec. 14 /2007
Amen!

Snitching for Rush

Rush Limbaugh: “Linda Trip –
What a beautiful heroine!!!
Now there’s a person who can really lead….
Here’s a question for the pop pollsters:
Who is a better role model
‘for the children’ of America:
Bill Clinton or Linda Tripp?
I’m telling my sons to imitate her.” (4)

(Linda had her friend Monica
spill the beans on Bill,
while hiding a mike,
and passed the info on.)

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry, the man and the situation penned by Sinclair Lewis, has been confirmed again and again. The holier-than-thou -born-again crowd often goes amiss. Practicing what they preach is not always the case. Anti-abortion Judge Roy Moore had an eye for teenage girls and even tried to force his favors on some. That however did not interrupt his preaching or prevent has running for high office. What else is new?

Anita and the Judge

Anita Hill describes the lewdity of Clarence Thomas: “He spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes….On several occasions, Thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess….Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office, he got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, ‘Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?’”

Pardon me, folks! I’ve got to go out and barf.

Anita dear, this man is a stalwart god-fearing, evangelical, anti-abortion conservative. What did you expect?

After Anita Hill had testified against super-Conservative Supreme Court Justice-to-be Clarence Thomas, the holier-than-thou-crowd hired David Brock to defame Hill
in The Real Anita Hill. However, after publication, Brock got qualms of conscience and spilled the beans.

No Snitching for Alan

From Alan Dershowitz: Is Paterno Getting a Bum Rap?:
“(Joe) Paterno and I come from roughly
the same generation.
We grew up during the period of McCarthyism,
and my parents taught me,
as his parents may well have taught him,
that the most unforgivable sin is to ‘snitch’
on one’s friends and colleagues….” (5)
(Joe kept Jerry Sandusky’s
child-abuse activities
under his coach’s cap.)

Hotels and Privacy

“I still say what happens in a room is a private thing.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Interview with Richard Quest, CNN

Right you are, Dominique! When two people check into a hotel,
(or a threesome or foursome or a more-some)
no matter what their sexes are, they can do whatever they do
in the privacy of their room and it’s their business –
unless blood is shed.

However, if a waiter, maid or any other hotel employee
enters a guest’s room in the course of their service or work
and is propositioned, that is sexual harassment.
And if such a person is physically assailed
in one way or another, that, dear Dominique,
is assault and battery, attempted rape or rape,
whatever the case may be.

Those who frequent five-star hotels and get a yen
when they wake up in the morning
can take a short walk or a cab ride
to the next neighborhood five-star bordello,
and nobody’s going to protest or complain
or call the police about that “private thing.”

Short Circuits, Blackouts and Such

During an interview Dominique Strauss Kahn, answered one of Christine Banon’s
questions by darting toward the 23-year-old interviewer with dishonorable intentions in mind. Madame Banon managed to exit from the interview scathed but intact.
She described the bearing of her interviewee as “an ape in heat.”

Later Monsieur Strauss-Kahn shrugged away his behavior to her as a “short circuit.”

Cest’ la vie, these things do happen. French erotica-author Catherine Millet gives some Gallic advice: “After being raped, a woman can wash herself.”

Here comes boring old Harry with a comment:
The prisons are filled with men who had short circuits.

Beauty and the Beast

Liv Ullmann called Kissinger, “the most interesting man I have ever met.” She goes on. “I absolutely disapprove of what he did politically, and I told him so, but he tells good stories. He just thought it was fun to be with me because I don’t understand anything, because I’m stupid in politics and I’m on the wrong side.”

Well, concerning Dr. Strangekiss, according to Ullmann, I am certainly on “the wrong side.” I am also on the wrong side of Deadeye Dick Cheney, and all the other mass murderers of “our side.”

As an admirer of Liv Ullmann, I cannot fathom how she could be fascinated by anyone so ugly on both the outside and the inside. But then, according to him. “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

Love may be blind, but apparently, power is blinding!

Dr. Strangekiss’ success with the ladies caused the press to dub him as “Cary Grant with a German accent.”

Guess if power could do it for Henry, power can do it for anyone, including, Quasimodo and Caliban – that is if they had happened to have had power.

Jean Anouilh’s repetitive dramatic theme was the beauty besmirched by the beast, and the inability of the true love that followed the false one to accept to accept the besmirching.

Liv claimed that their relationship was strictly aboveboard. If that were so, I guess she was the only one that didn’t go below-board.

* * * * * * * * * * *

(4) Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Online (no date indicated).
(5) Huffpost/Newsmax , Nov. 11, 2011

 

-Boys Will Be Boys (1)

von Herbert Kuhner am 8. Dezember 2017 um 23:55
Veröffentlicht in: Politics

Donald the Predator

There are two elements here: the dirty talk and the description of assault.
Dirty talk is a common male form of communication, like it or not!
Assaulting women is a criminal act and perpetrators belong behind bars.

The wealthy and the famous cannot accommodate all the female fans that come at them
with one thing in mind.

Why would anyone who has women constantly volunteering to bestow their favors on them try to “impose” themselves on others? The answer is simple. ‘Cause that’s the way they want it. It’s the predatory instinct.

Primitive millionaires and celebrities think that wealth and fame gives them the right to live out their despicable fantasies.

When money is no object, you don’t have to worry about shedding someone you want to shed.

Question: “What did you unload?”
Answer: “I unloaded a wife.”

Paternal Pride

Donald Trump: “My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka.”
Howard Stern: “By the way, your daughter –“
Trump: “She’s beautiful.”
Stern: “Can I say this? A piece of ass.”
Trump: “Yeah!”

The Jack-and-Bill Syndrome

The Jack-and-Bill Syndrome is marriage with a suitable partner – and sex in small dollops with incidental and interchangeable Jills and Janes. This is a fun thing, and the fun is set apart from anything serious.

The Jacks and Bills are not only incapable of concentrating desire on a spouse, they cannot focus on a prolonged affair. That would be a long dollop.

I don’t have anything against the Jack-and-Bill Syndrome. I say that if the Jacks and Bills want to live their lives that way and the Jills and Janes are willing to accommodate them, why shouldn’t they go about what they’re doing the way they’re doing it?

When you’re an adolescent you think that you’d like to hit a few gongs before you settle down, as a matter of fact, you may even think that settling down is something for squares, although for some, that’s a phase you grow out of.

Most men prefer the company of men to that of women – when you think of “company.” Women are fine as sex objects or as marriage partners, but it is men who sit down at tables, smoke, take swigs and play cards. The subject matter in these men’s sessions is sports, cars and women – the latter invariably being on the primitive side.

What counts more than a relationship between a man and a woman is friendship between a man and a man.

That’s more or less, the masculine view – like it or not!

Bill and Arnie Call a Spade a Spade

Bill looked me and a few other people square in the eye, squinting his eyes,
and said: “I want you to listen to me – I’m going to say this again –
I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky.”

I believed him then and I still do. This is America!
Guys and gals, in this country, sex consists of raising the flag
and hitting the mark where it should be hit. No shilly-shallying around!
The mark is the mark. And hitting it is hitting it.
In America the mouth doesn’t count as a doppelganger,
nor does a cigar!

Here’s Bill again under oath: “When I was alone with Ms. Lewinsky
on certain occasions in early 1996 and once in early 1997,
I engaged in conduct that was wrong.
These encounters did not consist of sexual intercourse.
They did not constitute sexual relations, as I understood that term
to be defined at my January 17th, 1998 deposition.
But they did involve inappropriate intimate contact.” (1)

Arnie the muscle-bound Lothario
came to this country as an Austrian.
Austrians are okay, but they aren’t the real McCoy.
Just as Clark Kent becomes Superman,
Arnie transformed himself into a genuine American.
Arnie knows what’s what.

Arnie provides an “American” definition of extramarital proceedings:
When a friend caught in a compromising situation on a movie set,
Arnie implored, “We won’t tell Maria about it, since it’s only a blowjob
and not real infidelity.” (2)

And here’s Arnie is with a prudent statement:
“The impeachment proceedings and the Lewinsky scandal
was another thing I will never forgive the Republican Party for….
We spent one year wasting time because there was a human failure.
I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period.” (3)

Bill’s Second Term

It can be said that Bill blew it;
the same can be said of Monica.

 

 

* * * * * * * * * * * * * *

(1) Videotaped Testimony of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States before the Grand Jury Empaneled for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, August 17, 1998; released September 21, 1998.
(2) H. Bauernebel, News, Vienna, No. 23, June 2005, p. 182.
(3) Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Magazine, Nov. 1999.

-Head Against the Wall and Violent Art

von Herbert Kuhner am 6. Dezember 2017 um 13:56
Veröffentlicht in: Politics, Text

Head Against the Wall and Violent Art

“The ‘moral-attackers’ look a bit ridiculous as they bang the same heads against the same wall decade after decade …. A crime us not less of a crime because it has been committed by an artist, and it follows that art is not less valid due to the fact that the artist is an offender… It is imperative that in a civilized legal system that the judges must be impartial and independent and that the victims should take it upon themselves to judge the perpetrator.“[1]
– Dr. Rudolf Scholten, former Minister of Art, concerning Otto Mühl. Scholten is member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Kontroll-Bank, the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Executive Committee of the Bilderberg-Conference

Otto Mühl Exhibit in the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, March 3 – May 31, 2004:
“Otto Mühl: Life/Art/Work Action Utopia Painting 1960 –2004”
(Original title: Life as a Work of Art)
Otto Mühl’s life, with all of its aspects is being touted as a work of art by the advocates of Actionism.

It stood to reason that a man who had publicly copulated while wallowing in excrement and who had whipped a man bloody in the aula of the university[2] was suited to be the guardian of children in a commune. There he reigned for almost two decades while the funding flowed in and praise came from the highest state offices.

“Blasphemy, obscenity, charlatanism, sadistic excesses, orgies, the aesthetics of the cesspool are our moral means.[3] That includes rape and murder.[4] Murder is an integral part of sex. [5] It will soon become an ethical necessity to rob banks and to shoot a random cripple down.” [6]  “Nitsch is a sadist with a mania for approbation, an autistic alcoholic who’s completely narcissistic and a mother’s boy who didn’t get enough attention. Rainer is genuinely violent and a sadist.  Nitsch torments the participants in his actions; they’re constantly freezing. He arranges that intentionally. I’d like to know how many became ill, how many caught pneumonia, how many died.”[7]
– Otto Mühl, Actionist

Bruno Kreisky extols and sanctions Otto Mühl: “…my friend the great painter, perhaps the best we have in Austria.[8] He went through a great and intense development as a human being, and he as a matter of fact, brought new humane qualities to the life of the community.”[9] “From a liberal point of view, we have no choice but to let these young people go their way.[10] We must offer this experiment protection against being attacked by the press, above all by German papers.”[11]

Here is a segment of an article from Der Spiegel of March 1, 2004: “Prior the opening of Mühl-Show in MAK, which they consider to be an attempt to rehabilitate the artist, two young women have come forward to present new accusations. They claim that Mühl not only abused teenagers, as has already been confirmed, but small children as well. In sworn statements, the two victims describe how Mühl forced them to participate in sexual acts when they were small children.

 “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. Both women state that at the time of Mühl’s trial, they were forced to remain silent about these occurrences by members of the Commune.”[12]

 The essence of Nitsch: “The intoxication created by the blood and the ripping apart of raw flesh should be satisfying and enjoyable since it relieves man of his suppressed desires…. If possible I would prefer to work with human beings, with dead human beings, with corpses to be specific.”[13] 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.”[14] Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”[15] “Mühl’s specialty is minors and sex, and my specialty is the agonizing torture of animals.[16]

In the ”Partitur” to his 6-Day Feast and The Conquest of Jerusalem, Nitsch describes the laceration and desecration of women’s and children’s bodies.[17]

An exculpation: “Nitsch remarked that his intent was not to kill the children. He only wants work with material that is already dead.”[18]

Here is a quotation from the Partitur: “A 7-year old boy is nailed to the wall as if crucified. His head is beaten and shattered with rectangular stones, his bloody brains come out. The bloody brain is rinsed and washed with lukewarm sugar-water.”[19]

 A key quotation by Nitsch: “I no longer intend to place a humane corset on my work.”[20]

More from the Partitur:

„Cadavers of two year old children, one year old children and newborn children are brought into the room. Hair is torn from the heads of the cadavers. The lips and the sexual organs are torn apart. The chests of the small corpses are opened. The moist-bloody innards are torn out. pieces of flesh are torn from the dead children. Hands and feet are ripped out of their sockets. body parts of the dead children are hurled around the room.”[21]

On July 30, 1998 a TV interview with Hermann Nitsch was broadcast. On August 4th the following letter to the editor was published in the Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s largest-selling tabloid. The author is Lore Jarosch, biographer of Hans Dichand, the paper’s publisher:

“Dear Herr Chancellor, if your daughter were to be placed on a stage with shaven head and have her sex organ penetrated under the direction of Herr Nitsch, I would like to know whether you would still speak about ’the freedom of art.’”[22]

I would like to note that although Frau Jarosch’s letter was published, the paper did not pursue the matter.

Concerning criticism of Hermann Nitsch “Only those with no knowledge of the significance of ritual and corporeality in art and who have no desire for even a partial understanding can construe the use of religious objects as desecration and the willful violation of religious feelings.[23]  What is now happening is a linguistic Rostock, which is paving the way for a pogrom atmosphere.” [24]
– Dr. Rudolf Scholten, former Austrian Minister of Art, In Rostock in 1992

“I admired Nitsch before it was incontestable for a politician. Now that he has directed for the (State) Opera, implacable condemnation has turned into reverence. Apparently everything changes when one works for a reputed house.”[25]
– Dr. Franz Vranitzky, former Austrian Chancellor

In the winter of 1989, Mühl and his fellow Actionists were honored at their exhibit their exhibition in Kassel, Germany, by Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitzky who traveled there to open it.

reunification of Germany, neo-Nazis set fire to a building filled with refugees to the applause of bystanders).

“Whether it be Nitsch’s “6-Day Feast,” whether it be the work of the Viennese Group in the Biannual Catalogue that been defamed as child pornography….We guarantee Nitsch the protection of the state for practicing his profession freely.”
– Dr. Peter Wittmann, Austrian State Secretary for Culture. [26]

 “If we don’t prosper, the world will be blown up.”[27]Take your cock out! Exhibitionists to the fore! … We will beat citizens until they become human beings.”[28]
– Peter Weibel, Actionist and Culture Commissar

More Weibel: “I knew a university professor named Stephan Koren. He was cripple and wanted to convince me that he was a man like me. In order to prove this he pressed on in politics to the rank of minister with just one arm…when Koran the cripple raises his left arm during his speeches, it becomes a ghastly monument of his dissipated and mutilated humanity. This scum of the nation fills every healthy Austrian with such dread that the pupils of his eyes would burst at the sight.”[29]

“A bird is tied to a pedestal with a thin cord. I kneel in front of the bird on the pedestal and then I pour scalding wax over it. When I knock the pot of wax over with my head the bird’s head is inundated and my right hand is doused. Then I pour wax on my feet and my left hand. I free my hands by cutting the cord with a knife that I have picked up from the pedestal with my mouth. The pedestal is encircled by nails scattered around the plateau of the pedestal on which the drama of mankind is depicted.“[30]
– Valie Export, Actionist & designer of the anti-fascistic monument in Allentsteig, Lower Austria

 “We thought about killing people as a work of art, or that sort of thing – if that is radical. But it did not happen. Bayer, Achleitner, Rühm and I met for intensive discussions on an almost daily basis for two or three years.”[31]
– Oswald Wiener, author and Actionist

 Shortly before his death in December of 2003 Museum Director Otto Breicha admitted that pedophilia is practiced in artistic circles, and added that divulging information could have dire consequences.

Helmut Butterweck to Herbert Kuhner concerning Nitsch & Co.: “I would never do what you are doing. Modern art is part and parcel of the anti-fascistic movement.”[32]

Anti-humanism cannot be a component of anti-fascism.

Violence for its own sake is the antithesis of anti-fascism.

 “In other words, in the cultural scene one can give vent to Nazi-type barbarity under a Leftist banner.” [33]
– Lutz Dammbeck, director of The Master Game

 It takes true genius to execute inhumanity and brutality with impunity under the cloak of freedom of art.
– Johannes Diethart, author and publisher

 Violence as an art form not only borders on crime, it transcends that border.
– H.K.

 

Life as a Work of Art

MAK: (Museum of Applied Arts): “Otto Mühl: Life as a Work of Art”
Otto Mühl Exhibit in the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, March 3 – May 31, 2000:
“Otto Mühl: Life/Art/Work Action Utopia Painting 1960 –2004”
(Original title: Life as a Work of Art)

When members of the commune rebelled, the yellow press helped bring Mühl down. “Progressive” elements either defended him or stayed on the sidelines. As far as the revisionists are concerned, those who attempt to downplay the murder of one-and-a-half million children in the death factories of the Third Reich are not opposed to the abuse of children.)

Andreas Schlothauer concerning proceedings during the trial of Mühl on January 23, 1990: “After the moving descriptions of seven girls who were sexually abused by Mühl, a compilation of videos was shown after the courtroom had been cleared of spectators. In addition to violent actions by Mühl, his wife Claudia was shown forcing minors to engage in oral sex with her in front of an enthusiastic audience. ’I have seen the films, and they cannot be compared to anything I’ve ever viewed,’ said Frau Jelinek, the judge, ‘The boys did not want to do it; they were in tears. They received a permanent shock. One was her son, the son and his stepmother!’ (One of the boys was the son of Otto Mühl and Claudia’s sister).”

“District attorney Rabonog, still under the impression of the testimony of witnesses and the videos, stated in his summation: ‘I have taken part in many major trials, but the fate of the victims has never moved me so much as in this one. Mühl engages in the practice of terror. History has shown us what a concentration camp is. What the girls in the Friedrichshof had to go through was just as horrible. Otto Mühl experimented with people; he manipulated them. He was so sensitive as an artist that he thought that when a girl said “no” she meant “yes.” The children weren’t voluntarily there; he had taken their parents from them, and thus the ability of leaving the commune. They didn’t have a chance.’”[34]

Children are sacrificed on the altar of art. And so be it!

Otto Mühl’s trial in Eisenstadt ended with a conviction and a seven-year sentence for “the sexual abuse of minors, rape and forced abortion.”[35]

Actionist events are geared for public participation. In the “private” events, there are no holds barred.

Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Profil: “Some gentlemen in high places – we have heard – visited Mühl in order to have themselves served by wild women.”[36]

Was it only women that the host served up! And some want what they want accompanied by theatrical trimmings.

According to an article by Manfred Seeh in Die Presse, 17.8 million Austrian Shillings hush money was paid to the parents of underage girls and other members of the commune prior to Otto Mühl’s trial in 1988-9. That is approximately one and a half million dollars.[37]

 Rudolf Scholten to Gerhard Praschak before his suicide: “We are not living in London or New York where performance is decisive. We are in Austria where politics is the determining factor.”[38]
(Praschak had to vacate his bank post to Scholten.)

And after Praschak’s suicide: “I cannot engage in a controversy with someone who is no longer alive.”[39]

 

Head Against the Wall

 

“The ‘moral-attackers’ look a bit ridiculous as they bang the same heads against the same wall decade after decade.”[40]
– Rudolf Scholten

“I did not bang my head. I got it banged. But I don’t feel the least bit ridiculous.”

 

THE GERMAN TRANSLATION IS AVAILABLE HERE/DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG ZUM HERUNTERLADEN HIER:  GEWALT-RINGELSPIEL-H.KUHNER 2017

 

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[1] Rudolf Scholten, Profil, No. 11, 8, March 8, 2004, p. 147.
[2] Transparent Spezial, ORF, May 8, 1996, description by Peter Weibel.
[3] Transparent Spezial, ORF (Austrian Radio), May 8, 1996.
[4] Josef Dvorak: “Die Faschisten von heute: Antwort an Hermann Nitsch,“ Neues Forum, No. 246, June 1974, Vienna, p. 44; Otto Mühl, ZOCK, Aspekte einer Totalrevolution 66/71 Munich, 1971; Supervisuel 6, „Otto Mühl will Menschen schlachten,“ Zurich, 1970.
[5] Fritz Rumler:” Ein Problem der Umweltverschmutzung?,“ Der Spiegel, 1968 (exact date illegible), Frankfurt, p. 254
[6] Josef Dvorak: “Amoklauf der Aktionisten,“ Neues Forum, Sept./Oct. 1974, Nos. 249/250, p. 2.
[7] Andreas Schlothauer, Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität p. 122.
[8] Andreas Schlothauer: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität: AAO, Mühl-Kommune, Friedrichshof, Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik; Vienna, 1992, p. 139.
[9] Andreas Schlothauer: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität p. 141.
[10] Im Brennpunkt: “Die Tage der Kommune,“ Dokumentation von Elisabeth Scharang, ORF (Austrian TV) Feb. 11, 1998, quotation by Robert Sedlacek, Bruno Kreisky’s secretary from 1980-1983.
[11] Ibid., quotation by Karl Iro.
[12] Jürgen Kremb: „Opfer der Kommine“ Der Spiegel, No. 10, March 1, 2004, p. 156.
[13] Mojca Kumerdej: “Hermann Nitsch o smrti in Zivljenu,” Delo, Ljubljana, Oct. 3, 1992; “Im Blutrausch,” News,, No. 30/95, p. 190; “Sechs Tage blutiges Welttheater,” News, No. 40/96, p. 190, “The Devil In a Grey Beard,” interview with Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Manchester, Nov. 15, 1997, p. 17; News, No. 27, July, 2001, p. 7.
[14] Falter 24-30, 7, No. 30, 1998, p. 18.
[15] Paula Devarney: “Nitsch – Art of Killing,” Caellian, 9. Oct. 1970; Hermann Nitsch: Das rote Tuch – Das Orgien Mysterien Theater – Im Spiegel der Presse 1960-1988, Freibord, Vienna, 1988, p. 106.
[16]Gerhard Jaschke, Ed.: Das Rote Tuch: Der Mensch das unappetitliche Vieh, Edition Freibord, Vienna, 1988, „Wiener Aktionisten kreuzigten in Neapel Lamm – ausgewiesen“, from the Arbeiter-Zeitung, April 13, 1974
[17] Hermann Nitsch: Orgien Mysterien Theater/Orgies Mystery Theater, März Verlag, Darmtadt, 1969; Das Orgien-Mysterien-Theaters in Schloß Prinzendorf, Vols.1-9, Edition Freibord, Vienna, Die Eroberung von Jerusalem, Die Drossel, Berlin, 1977.
[18] www.politik-forum.at Political Discussion Platform for Austria.
[19] Herman Nitsch: Orgien Mysterien Theater/Orgies Mystery Theater, März Verlag, Darmstadt, 1969, p. 297.
[20] Fritz Billeter, Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, July 12, 1974, Letter to the editor in Neues Forum, Vienna, Sept./Oct. 1974, p. 4.
[21] www.politik-forum.at Political Discussion Platform for Austria.
[22] Letter to the editor by Lore Jarosch, Neue Kronen Zeitung, August 4, 1998, p. 20.
[23] Dr. Rudolf Scholten: Opening Speech, Styrian Autumn, Graz, Oct. 2, 1992.
[24] Dr. Rudolf Scholton, Minister für Culture, Die Presse, Sept. 14, 1992.
[25] “Salut für den Meister,” News, 32/95, Vienna.
[26] “Kultur-Alarm,” News, No. 16, 1999, p. 140.
[27] Josef Dvorak: “Amoklauf der Aktionisten,” Neues Forum, Sept./Oct. 1974, Nos. 249/250, Vienna, p. 2.
[28] Fritz Rumler: “Exhibitionisten an die Front,” Der Spiegrel, No. 17, 21, 1969. p. 194.
[29] Peter Weibel, Valie Export: Wien, Bildkompendium Wiener Aktionismus und Film, Kohlkunst Verlag, Frankfurt, 1970; Speech at the University of Vienna, June, 7, 1968.
[30] performance-art-research.de/AndereTexte.htm; Beschreibung von VALIE EXPORT in: http://www.urban-infill.com/asemie2.htm, 20.02.2004.
[31] Oswald Wiener: „Über Kunst und Automatentheorie: Ein Gespräch mit Stan Lafleur“; Textauszug aus: Eckhard Hammel, Hrsg., Synthetische Welten. Kunst, Künstlichkeit und Kommunikationsmedien, Essen, Verlag der Blaue Eule, 1996, p. 199-213.
[32] Helmut Butterweck of Die Furche, a Catholic weekly in Vienna, to Herbert Kuhner in 2000.
[33] Fritz Dammbeck in the film The Master Game, Germany, 1998.
[34] Andreas Schlothauer: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität, p 174.
[35] Andreas Schlothauer: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität, cover blurb.
[36] Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof: “Ein Echter Österreicher,“ Profil, No. 8, Feb. 16, 1998, p. 102.
[37] Manfred Seeh: Mühl-Kommune: “Rund 18 Millionen Schilling ‚Schweigegeld‘ an Zeugen,“ Die Presse, Vienna, Feb. 10, 1998, p. 10.
[38] Rudolf Scholten, News magazine, No. 18, April 1997, p. 15, quoted from Gerhard Praschak’s suicide note.
[39] Ibid.
[40] Rudolf Scholten, Profil, No. 11, 8, March 8, 2004, p. 147.

 

 

 

 

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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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