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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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Archive for December, 2007

The Death of Art

Herbert Kuhner
A contorted manikin piss, with the stream directed orally, symbolizes man’s capacity for self- nourishment. It was set up at the Salzburg Festival as art, but its practicality belies that categorization. And the act depicted is not an innovation; Gunter Brus, the actionist, has been doing precisely that for decades.
However, Damian Hirst’s platinum skull […]

Posted: December 30th, 2007 under Reviews, Polemics, Aktuell.
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Paean to Padhi Frieberger

No Art Without Artists/Revisited Museum of Applied Arts, […]

Posted: December 24th, 2007 under Reviews, Text, Aktuell.
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Schuschnigg Prevents Bloodshed

The Federal President has asked me to inform the Austrian people that we will give way to force. We have ordered our armed forces to withdraw without resisting in case the invasion takes place and to await the decisions of the coming hours, for we are not willing to spill German blood at this grave […]

Posted: December 9th, 2007 under Polemics, Text, Materialien, Political.
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Kalina & Dollfuß

Einladung an Josef Kalina
vom 06.09.2001
Ehemaliger SPÖ-Funktionär soll Stellung nehmen.
Josef Kalina, ehemaliger Pressesekretär von Bundeskanzler Viktor Klima und jetzige Redakteur für Kommunalpolitik bei der Kronen-Zeitung, wird eingeladen, zu den infamen Hetz-„Gedichten” von Wolf Martin und den unmenschlichen und revisionistischen Leserbriefen im sogenannten “Freien Wort”, einen Kommentar abzugeben. Es wäre interessant zu hören, wie dies alles mit […]

Posted: December 4th, 2007 under Polemics, Aktuell, Dossier, Political, Hypocrisy.
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A Day

Herbert Kuhner
We were in Locust Valley on the Island at the time. That day was a year after the war had ended. I hated going to school, and that morning I said I wasn’t going to go. I had said the same thing on other mornings, and after saying it I had walked to the […]

Posted: December 4th, 2007 under Text, Stories.
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