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HERBERT KUHNER Romancier, Lyriker, Dramatiker und Übersetzer ist 1935 in Wien in geboren. Er emigrierte 1939 in die Vereinigten Staaten und studierte an der Lawrenceville School und Columbia University. Nach Wien kehrte er 1963 zurück, wo er als ein freier Schriftsteller und Übersetzer lebt.

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Remigration

Another topic I have “touched upon” is “remigration.” This word is a neologism, which means coming back to where you have been driven out.I've always said that I wanted a smooth ride, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes.

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Remarkable People

On the road I have traveled, I have met many remarkable people. First I name my friend and mentor the late Emile Capouya. “Mike” encouraged me over the years and published two of my books in New York.

Herbert Kuhner

grew up in the United States, associating with the New York City jazz and coffee scene in the 1950s. ". . I've always said that I wanted to have smooth sailing, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes". As a subtitle I’ve chosen “Stepping out of line,” which is a movement my feet can’t seem to avoid making.

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Vienna Today

Returning to my birthplace has given me a unique opportunity of writing on Third Reich Revisionism. This topic interlinks with Violence under the Guise of Art like pieces of a puzzle to reveal how the past manifests itself in the present.

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Shenanigans at Heroes’ Square

Herbert Kuhner

Listen Folks, bad things are happening in Austria. A group is being singled out again, just like in the old days.

On January 27th 2012 the so called Corporation Ball took place at the Hofburg, which is the former Royal Palace. This is a Far Right shindig featuring the Freedom Party and the Fencing Fraternities.

Left-Wing rowdies vociferously demonstrated against this affair in Heroes’ Square. Heinz-Christian Strache comments: “We are the new Jews. This was like the Night of Broken Glass.”

Klaus Nittmann, Head of the Freedom Party Educational Institute, added: “Organizations working for the ball had the Jewish Star pasted on them.”

Curious journalists failed find this item.

Then late Jörg Haider had it both ways: “We, the Freedom Party, are treated the way Jews were previously treated. We’re the Palestinians of Austria.”
- Austria Presse Agentur, Dec. 19, 1995

Retrospective

strache_er.fuehrt.euch.jpgHeinz-Christian Strache, Head of the Freedom Party Commemo- rates the Victims of the Allied Bombing during World War II on May 8, 2004 at Heroes’ Square in Vienna

According to Herr Strache the bombing of German cities by the Allies was a crime. If that is the case, then it must follow that the bombing of Geurnica, Rotterdam, Warsaw, London, Coventry and so on were crimes. The bombing of these cities preceded the bombing of German cities.

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“Angekommen im Vatikan”

Hermann Nitsch im Leopold Museum - JETZT ODER NIE 4. November 2011
Das Leopold Museum zeigt zum ersten Mal in Österreich eine Ausstellung zum zeichnerischen und grafischen Werk von Hermann Nitsch.
Wien (OTS) - Die längst fällige umfassende Würdigung des zeichnerischen und graphischen Werkes von Prof. Hermann Nitsch erfolgte gestern Abend im Rahmen der Vernissage zur Ausstellung “Hermann Nitsch. Kurator Carl Aigner, Vorstand des Leopold Museum und Direktor des Landesmuseum NÖ präsentierte die gesamte Bandbreite des Schaffens, von den Kritzelzeichnungen über Farbskalen, Partituren bis zu den riesigen Schüttbildern.

Danielle Spera (Direktorin Jüdisches Museum) hielt die Eröffnungsrede und gab interessante
biographische Einblicke…
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Herman Nitsch und die Farbe des Todes
Hermann Nitsch: „Ich könnte mir vorstellen, daß ein Mord Bestandteil eines Kunstwerks ist, daß aber jetzt eine andere Verantwortungsebene an den Mörder herantritt …. Also: Kunst kann auch ein Verbrechen sein, sagen wir so. Das Töten war und ist außerhalb des ethischen Urteils.”

Und zum Vergleich Hermann Nitsch: „Ich war alles. Ich war Napoleon, ich war Christus, ich war Nietzsche, ich war Schopenhauer, und ich werde alles sein, was da noch kommt.”

Otto Mühl über seinen Kollegen: „Nitsch ist ein Sadist, ein geltungssüchtiger, autistischer Psychopathensäufer, er ist ganz narzißtisch, ein zu kurz gekommenes Muttersöhnchen. Rainer ist ein echter Schläger und Sadist. Nitsch quält dafür Leute bei seinen Aktionen, sie frieren immer. Er richtet das so ein. Ich hätte gern gewußt, wie viele da krank geworden sind, wie viele Lungenentzündung gehabt haben und wie viele gestorben sind”.

Und Nitsch über seinen Kollegen: „Mühl ist spezialisiert auf Minderjährige und Sex und ich bin spezialisiert auf qualvolles Martern von Viechern.”

Ich zitiere Profil: „So wird Nitsch, der in seinem Leben nie ein Tier abgeschlachtet hat, permanent als Schlächter tituliert.”

Nitsch: „Sie schlachten das falsche Schwein und kämpfen gegen den falschen Gegner, weil ich nichts mache was einem Tier nur ein Haar krümmt.” Und „Mühl ist spezialisiert auf Minderjährige und Sex. und ich bin spezialisiert auf qualvolles Martern von Viechern.”

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„Wir sind quitt“

Einladung:

Dienstag, 8. November 2011, 19 Uhr
Rockhgasse 1, 1010, Eingang Cafe Hebenstreit,
im Republikanischen Club - Neues Österreich:

Harrys politische ZitatenSalat
Österreicher im Wort und Tat

„Wir sind quitt”

„Viele mögen als Juden fortgegangen sein - wer kommt, kommt als Österreicher zurück.” Und er war bereit, die Vergangenheit ruhen zu lassen. „Wir haben einander nichts vorzuwerfen. Seine Toten kann keiner lebendig machen - bei euch sind viele tot und bei uns - wir Überlebenden sind aber quitt. Wir denken nicht allzuviel an gestern.”
- Hans Weigel, Wiener Kurier, 1945

Und so weiter!

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Cain’s Creed

Herbert Kuhner

‘”African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple.

“It is not a person’s fault because they succeeded. It is a person’s fault if they failed. And so this is why I don’t understand these demonstrations and what is it that they’re looking for.

“If you are envious of somebody that happens to be rich, that you call a fat cat, go and get rich instead of expecting them to walk outside of the office and write you a check. That’s not the way America works. Work for it.

“Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.

“Occupy Wall Street, ” says Herman Cain, “is planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration.” Although he admits,” I don’t have the facts to back this up.”

So why blame Obama? And who needs “facts” these days?

Rush Limbaugh chimes in: “The libs run a plantation, and the blacks in the Democrat party are the people who work for ‘em, and in order to serve in the Democratic Party as a black, you gotta toe the line.”

Here’s a question for Rush and Herman: Who walked and walks with blacks on the road to achieving social and political equality? Was it Republicans and Conservatives or was it Democrats and Liberals?

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David and Goliath(s)

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  • Ed Koch’s Course

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch cheers the construction of settlements by Bibi Netanyahu on land inhabited by Palestinians. President Obama opposes this, as anyone with ounce of objectivity and common sense would.

Ed Koch supported Republican Bob Turner against Assemblyman David I. Weprin, a Democrat, in a race for the House of Representatives in order to teach Democrats like Obama a lesson. Turner won.

Congressman Anthony Wiener sparked this lost election off when he made his private parts public on Facebook. For him, inguinal shenanigans took precedence over political matters.

Ed Koch denounced “the so-called Arab Spring as a fraud, and Mr. Obama’s call for Hosni Mubarak’s resignation as president of Egypt an outrage.” (Sure, whatever is good for us should be good for everybody, including those mowed down by a dictator’s minions.)

Ed Koch calls Republican presidential nominees, other than Mitt Romney: “Wacky and totally unacceptable.” Mitt is trailing Rick Perry, who is acceptable to those who Koch finds unacceptable.

These days the Far Right favors Israel with no holds barred. If the Tea Party People take the helm of the United States, we will not be thanking Ed, Anthony et al.

Turkey is on a confrontation course with Israel. So what! We’re not a bunch of sissies. Turkey better watch out! Israel and the United States can take the Turks on - and the whole world if need be.

  • Israel and the Palestinians

I have as much empathy for those who indoctrinate children and young people to commit mass murder via suicide as I do for the Hitler Gang. That is self-evident! Hamas is a bloody thorn in the side of all those who want peace.

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Austrian Socialist Party Paragons

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  • Rudolf Gelbard

Rudolf Gelbard is a walking encyclopedia of recent Austrian political history. He did not have a chance to study in his youth, due to internment in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. In spite of his lack of “formal ” academic education, Gelbard is a scholar who has gathered valuable political information on fascism and anti-Semitism.. That is why my wife Irmgard and I recommended him for the honorary title of Professor. Numerous prizes followed.

Indeed Gelbard is consulted on historical matters, but so far Gelbard he has not been designated as official salaried historical consultant.

Gelbard’s apartment is a treasure trove of books, journals and papers on the subject, which are not archived or ordered. The true description of the premises, which I have not personally viewed, is helter-skelter.

I suggest that the Socialist Party send five or six students to archive this valuable historical material. It must be properly collected and preserved for posterity.

  • Peter Lhotzky

For years Peter Lhotzky has been writing short biographies of men and women of integrity of the Twenties, Thirties and Forties of the last century, who were Socialists. Lhotzky has diligently published this material in internet and distributed it to hisf riends

These admirable man and women of were mostly just plain folks who fought against National Socialism and helped those who needed help.

And guess who is NOT publishing these biographies? That’s right, the Austrian Socialist Party.

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Michele and Sarah, Astute Historians

Michelle Bachmann: “The very founders worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States… it’s high time that we recognize the contribution of our forebears who worked tirelessly-men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished.”

Yes, Michelle, a very good observation.

Of the 55 delegates, less than half owned slaves. Indeed John Quincy Adams was a tireless opponent of slavery. At the age of eight, he may have been too young to place his signature on the Constitution, but he impressed the delegates with his fiery anti-slavery rhetoric in Convention Hall

Sarah Palin on Paul Revere: “He warned the British that they weren’t going be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells, and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”

Yes, Sarah, Paul’s Ride may indeed have been directed at the British, who may indeed have wanted to impinge on our right to bear arms. At any rate, the Ride predated the Second Amendment. Revere rode on April 18, 1775 and the Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791.

Some of the British soldiers may have intended to try “to take away our arms,” but the majority was dead set on using their arms to shoot down as many revolutionaries as possible.

I must say that I am very impressed by the meticulous research that preceded these sagacious observations.

- Herbert Kuhner

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