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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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Archive for July, 2007

Integrity

Hamas and Hezbollah have emerged as major factors in the Middle East. Their leaders exemplify a new kind of integrity. They live modestly and they do not have Swiss bank accounts. They provide social benefits for the poor and have established efficiently run schools, hospitals and homes for the aged.
The officers and volunteers of the […]

Protests Against the René Marcic Prize

from Zwischenwelt, no. 4, June 2007, Vienna, p 38.
Fritz Hausjell, professor for journalism in Vienna and the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge) have protested against the naming of the Salzburg Prize for Journalism after René Marcic, the former editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten. Hausjell and öge have proposed that this prize be named after […]

A Taboo

“The State of Israel must be overthrown, there is no room for such a state….The Zionist state is the cause of conflict and violence in the Middle East. I am against the racism and violence of the Zionist state of Israel, but I also oppose anti-Semitism.”
- Vanessa Redgrave, Arab Perspective, 1981, DiscovertheNetworks.Org
“Israel […]

Elitist Luminaries Set Examples

Peter Zadek is indubitably the greatest German theater director, even greater it pains me to say, than my favorite, the great Claus Peymann.
Here’ the compassionate Herr Peymann: “Ordinary murderers kill after they have raped a woman or they kill to acquire money. These terrorists (Bader-Meinhoff) thought that by murdering they had to take action against […]

Comments by Fighters

My late friend Dusko Tomovski, who had translated Faust I and II into Macedonian, told me the following story: At the age of fifteen he went up to the mountains to fight with the Tito partisans. At nightfall, he asked a grizzled comrade where he should sleep. The answer was:
“Find the softest stone.”
In 1992 […]

The Sheik and Women

Here’s a Taliban speaker at the beginning of the century on the opposite sex:
“How can you trust anyone who bleeds once a month?!”
And here’s Australian Mufti Sheik Taj Din al-Halali on the subject of the opposite sex:
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden
or in […]

The Core

The Story of Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge is all you need to know about religion. The tree represents carnal knowledge and knowledge per se. Paradise is a state without wisdom - and copulation. These two elements are evil.
The Deity is good and he does all the thinking. When Eve tempts Adam […]