Harry´s Blog

I’ve always associated the name Gabriel with the guy with wings and a horn.
Blow, Gabriel! Blow! is one of the great hits in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.
“Blow, Gabriel! blow!
Come on and blow, Gabriel, blow!
I wanna join your happy band.”
Now the name has a new connotation. There’s a Gabriel who plays in a band that I […]

There was an actor
who was a member of the Nazi Party,
who acted in propaganda films
and denounced colleagues to the Gestapo,
causing them to be deported and executed,
and who continued his career after the war
with not one word of regret.
Said actor was used onstage
by Austria’s top dramatist
and Germany’s top director of drama
to expose Nazi thought and spirit
as […]

„Man muß für den Direktor (Claus) Peymann … sein.”
- Christoph Braendle, Die Weltwoche, Nr. 45, 10 Nov. 1988
Claus Peymann: „…zu gewöhnlichen Mördern, die töten, nachdem sie eine Frau vergewaltigt haben oder die töten, um sich zu bereichern. Diese Terroristen (Bader-Meinhoff) haben getötet, weil sie glaubten, mit ihren Morden etwas gegen die Ermordung von hunderttausenden […]

On April 16, 2007 Seung-Hui Cho a student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA, massacred 32 students and teachers before taking his own life.
This is his motivation according to his manifesto: “Your Mercedes wasn’t enough, you brats! Your golden necklaces weren’t enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn’t enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn’t […]

Various Shifts at the Vatican
According to NeverAgain.Org, the Vatican gave sanctuary to 477 Jews in 1943 after the allied invasion of Italy and the German takeover of Northern Italy. Kudos are due for this humane action. The action was known as the “J-Shift.”
In 1945, after the surrender of Nazi Germany, sanctuary ceased to be a […]

Question: “What would you as a bishop advise the mother of a 11-year-old girl who has been raped?
Bishop Andreas Laun: “It has to be absurd to think that one can remove or cure the trauma of long abuse by the second trauma of abortion. The opposite is the case: The girl would be even more […]

Austria is to Germany what Ireland is to England. In the Land of the Southern Cousin, the language is more lilting, and that’s where the talent and the imagination are. Charmers and flatterers are good at creating fantasy, but do not always adhere to the truth. Fantasy may sometimes be far from the truth, but […]

Bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg is an unequivocal foe of abortion. According to Bishop Laun, if a child is raped and becomes pregnant, the child should have the child.
Bishop Laun received the Award for the Outstanding Clerical Humanist of the Twentieth Century. He is in the running for Clerical Humanist of the Twenty-First Century. […]

You need a Kujau
to forge a Rembrandt,
but for a Beuys
an Oberhuber will do.
Man braucht einen Kujau
um einen Rembrandt zu verfälschen,
aber für einen Beuys
genügt ein Oberhuber.

© by Herbert Kuhner

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Third Reich theoretician Konrad Lorenz
had grey geese follow him wherever he went.
He was especially enthralled by the goose step.
Drittes Reich Theoretiker Konrad Lorenz
ist von Graugänsen überall verfolgt worden.
Er ist vom Stechschritt besonders angetan gewesen.
© by Herbert Kuhner

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„Sie werden sicher auch Leute finden in Gurk, die Sozialisten oder Schwarze sind, die in gewissen Zusammenhängen sagen: Da gehört wieder der Hitler her. Aber deswegen ist man kein Nazi.”
- Karl Felsberger Vizebürgermeister von Gurk, Kärnten, Profil, Nr. 23, 6. Juni 2005
You’ll find people in Gurk who are socialists or conservatives, who in […]

Herbert Kuhner
From Violence under the Guise of Art
Claus and Klaus: Claus (Peymann) invited Otto Mühl to perform in the Burgtheater in November of 1998. Klaus invited Hermann Nitsch in November of 2005 to perform in “the Temple of language” (Klaus Bachler).
Austria’s Bishop for Art, Egon Kapellari, in the Salzburger Nachrichten: “Monsignor Otto Mauer, the unforgotten […]

Juni 2005 fanden drei Veranstaltungen mit der Galerie Charim im Republikanischen Club - Neues Österreich statt. Die Galerie Charim ist die Schaltstelle für Otto Mühl und Aktionistische Kunst in Österreich.
Jene, die Mühls Arbeiten fördern, verbreiten den Geist von Mühl. Diese zwei Elemente sind untrennbar.
Ich schrieb Doron Rabinovici, Club-Vorstandsmitglied, über diese Verbindung und schlug ein Programm […]

I could have lived my life in the States. I didn’t have to relearn German. I could have left my cultural background behind me and started in the States from scratch like a native born American. I didn’t have to return to the city of my birth, Vienna.
I’ve been fought down the line from day […]

“When I left Austria, we lost everything,
including human life.
Since I returned, there have been no amends -
only more of the same - on a spiritual level.”
“What could they do that they haven’t done? Throw you into jail?”
- Feliks J. Bister, former editor of Das Menschenrecht (Human Rights)
“I don’t think that there is a conspiracy against […]

You have to take your kicks because of other people. You feel that if you don’t, you’ll be letting them down, and you’ll be adding to their kicks. So everybody’s bending over and taking his kicks, some less, some more. And then there are these reflective guys with the sensitive hides, singing, laughing and crying […]