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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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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, 2008

David B. Axelrod at Lhotzky’s Literaturbuffet (1)

David visited Vienna from July 14th to 18th.
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Brains and Talent vs. Persistence
If I had half his brains,
I always thought I could
be somebody. And that one -
what talent! But my genius
friend never could fit in -
drinking, drinking until
he shrunk his brain
to ordinary and my
truly-gifted friend
couldn’t […]

from The Eternal River

Poetry by Jozo T. Boskovski
Translated by
Herbert Kuhner,
David Axelrod et al
(Anna Esapora, Cynthia Keeson
and Svetlana Dimic)
Jozo T. Boskovski (1933 - 2008)
My friend Jozo has left us for the Universe.
I first met him when I attended the Struga Evenings Poetry Festival in 1972. I last saw him at that venue in 1982. We kept in touch […]

Skeptical About Che

Here’s jazz critic and libertarian Nat Hentoff confronting Che: “Years ago, at the Cuban mission to the United Nations, I asked the revolutionary Cuban icon Che Guevara, who professed not to understand English, ‘Can you conceive of any time in the future when there will be free elections in Cuba?’

“Not waiting for the translator, Guevara […]

McCain’s Jokes

“Question: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Answer: Because her father is Janet Reno!”
Told by McCain at a Washington dinner in 1998,
Sherman Yellen, Huffington Post, Nov.,18.2006
“Did you hear the one about the woman
who is attacked on the street by a gorilla,
beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die?
When she finally regains consciousness and tries to […]

You Can’t Expect a Leopard to Change Its Spots

Milivoj Asner is ranked No. 4 on a leading list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects. He stands accused of persecuting hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies and dispatching them to their deaths in WWII-era Croatia, which was ruled by a Nazi puppet regime.

“He’s lived peacefully among us for years, and he should be able […]

Stephan Eibel Erzberg

Excerpts from Mixed Bag
Edited & Translated by Herbert Kuhner
Einleitung
Stephan Eibel ist einer der interessantesten und provokativsten gegenwärtigen österreichischen  Autoren. Er hat sich als Romancier, Erzähler, Lyriker und Dramatiker ausgezeichnet. Seine literarische Arbeit glänzt mit Ironie, absurdem Witz und reflektiert eine paradoxe und verlogene mitteleuropäische Gesellschaft. Er hat sich klar und kompromißlos über politische und gesellschaftliche […]

“Kronen-Zeitung” Retrospective

The Kronen-Zeitung is Austria’s largest circulation daily and the most widely read newspaper of any country in proportion to the population. Here are segments of articles from the journal, as well as letters to the editor.

Let the Dead Rest!
On January 30th, 1945 close to the end of World War II, The German liner Wilhelm […]