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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.

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 a smooth ride, 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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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 […]

Jehovah and the Jews

The Jews are sure that the Almighty,
who is actually an anti-Semite,
loves them more than anything else.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Runners to Nowhere
What’s more, He’s a Jewish anti-Semite,
which is even worse.
- H. K.
Jews created a Jewish God for Jews, who in turn created them. Jehovah was “wrathful and jealous,” in other words an ornery sort […]

Answering in Kind

Herbert Kuhner
We wanted Jews in Israel
to be better than everybody else.
They’re not!
We expected them to play clean,
but they play dirty, just like everybody else,
but not dirtier than everybody else.
Israel came to be because history proved that Theodor Herzl was right. He had an inkling that something was coming and something did come - the Holocaust. […]

Comrades at Arms

My Uncles Josef, Ernst, Rudi, Heinrich, Fritz, Ludwig and my father were comrades at arms with the air aces, Manfred von Richthofen, Ernst Udet and Hermann Göring in the Great War. The first two were officers in the cavalry and the other five were officers in the infantry.
There were more Jewish officers proportionally than gentiles, […]

Quotes by Friends (and Enemies)

David Ben Gurion: “Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: they think we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it’s […]

Anti-Fascism On the March

(Watch the goose-step!)
A Duo
He’s in the media; she’s in politics. He and she are in the forefront of every liberal cause and their names are on every manifesto. They take every opportunity to that affords itself to convey information concerning the barbarity of the Third Reich and its repercussions on the present. They are, as […]

Celestial Reward

The reward for entering a market or bus with a suicide belt to send market shoppers or bus riders to Kingdom Come is a sort of “pie in the sky.” The reward does not merely consist of floating around in a sheet way up there. In this Nirvana there are 72 virgins waiting in line […]

Religion With and Without the Deity

The most commendable aspect of Judaism
is that there is no proselytizing;
the least commendable aspect of Judaism
is that it spawned Christianity and Islam.
Communism has proven
that religion without God
can be just as abominable
as religion with God.
- Herbert Kuhner

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A Wonderful Human Being

There is a wonderful human being who does wonderful things. There was only one thing that the wonderful human being did that wasn’t wonderful. He sent someone, who was anything but wonderful, to Kingdom Come.
What to do! The question is should one turn a blind eye or should justice be done?
If the wonderful human being […]

The Three Major Religions

The Greeks told beautiful stories, which were light and ephemeral.
I rather doubt that their authors believed them.
The gods they wrote about were as human as humans.
The Jewish prophets were dead serious and concocted a Deity,
who was a celestial dictator and was as merciless as can be.
Judaism spawned Christianity and Islam,
each of which was a progression […]

Traveling to Kingdom Come

Jews have been pushed around for centuries. They’ve been sent to Kingdom Come without being able to do much about it.
In the Nineteenth Century Jews were able to come up in the ranks in Western Europe and achieved a significant place in medicine, science, journalism and the arts.
Early in the Twentieth Century, Dreyfus was […]

A Photo of Smiling Austrians and Germans

Herbert Kuhner
The photo was taken in March of 1938 after Austria has been annexed. Austrian officers wearing the round caps, leftovers from World War I, look up at mounted German officers wearing the steel helmets that Hell’s Angels still wear. The officers on foot and the mounted officers are smiling. The grins of the Austrians […]

À Propos the Mob

“‘Red’ Levine, a cold-blooded contract killer, who was a strict orthodox Jew and therefore did not murder on the Sabbath. Then there was the merciless syndicate boss Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter (sic) who loved his mother more than anything and was respected by the family-minded Sicilians. Or take the strategic genius Meyer Lansky who was not […]