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Apropos “Letters to the Editor”
Herbert Kuhner
The most candid views of the publishers of the leading tabloid for lowbrows and the leading tabloid for highbrows are to be found in the “letters to the editor” section. This is the page for blatant revisionism and racism. The malevolence and the hostility of the authors of these letters know no bounds. They […]
Posted: July 10th, 2008 under Polemics, Aktuell, Materialien, Hypocrisy.
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Having and Eating
Herbert Kuhner
There’s an Austrian broadsheet with a right-wing editorial page and a left-wing cultural page. If you’ve lived in Austria long enough, there’s no mystery about that. The Righties will buy the journal for the editorials and the Lefties will buy it for the articles on culture. But that’s not all there is to it. […]
Posted: July 10th, 2008 under Aktuell, Political, Hypocrisy.
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The Democratic Approach
Published in German translation in
Das Menschenrecht
& Minki die Nazi Katze und die menschliche Seite,
Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft
Herbert Kuhner
Gentlemen, we’ve gotten together to discuss a modern version of the Stürmer and the Völkischer Beobachter. Julius Streicher and Josef Goebbels were okay in their day, but they’d be too stiff and rigid for our time. Anti-Semitism […]
Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Text, Aktuell, Materialien.
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Reminder
Jazz Brunch with Harry Kuhner
“The No-Nosense 4″ are:
Eddie Salmen on Trumpet
Harry Kuhner on Drums
Jürgen Pingitzer on Piano
Peter Strutzenberger on Contrabass
Harry Kuhner reads some of his great Jazz-Poems
11:30 a.m. Sunday July 6. 2008 at Wienerwald. Waehringerstrasse 85, 1180 Wien Tel.: 050 15 16 118
Sphere: Related Content
Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Text, Poetry, Aktuell.
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THE ART OF BEING TOO JEWISH
by David B. Axelrod
It was a very good summer for me in 1982. My career was taking off as a poet with a big New and Selected Poems just published and lots of performances. One prominent venue on Long Island, Guild Hall in fashionable East Hampton, scheduled me to perform and it was particularly gratifying […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Text, Aktuell.
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David B. Axelrod
David will be visiting Vienna from July 14th to 18th.
A meeting can be arranged by contacting Harry Kuhner.
The following poem was inspired by our mutual friend Jozo Boskovski
who left us this year for the Universe.
- H. K.
The Man Who Said “Maybe”
He said a European flight
from Macedonia
took more time going
than returning
because the earth turned favorably.
Try to […]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Text, Poetry.
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