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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.

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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 June, 2009

“Kronen-Zeitung” Retrospective

Herbert Kuhner
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 […]

The Hard Part

Herbert Kuhner
It’s mainly women who consult doctors. Woman is very troubled,
because clearly she has every kind of known weakness.
She needs… she wants to stay young. She has her menopause,
her periods, the whole genital business, which is very delicate;
it makes a martyr out of her, doesn’t it?
So this martyr lives anyway, she bleeds, she doesn’t bleed,
she […]

Faithful till the End

Herbert Kuhner
Magda had a Jewish stepfather and both Magda and Josef had love affairs with Jewish partners in their youth. Josef had considered marriage, but when faced with the prospect of mixed-race children, had decided against it. Magda became a gentile Zionist and wore the Star of David, a gift from her lover, around her […]

A Rake Returns to the Conjugal Hearth

Herbert Kuhner
Hitler may have been one of the two greatest murderers of the Twentieth Century, but he had a sense of decorum and propriety. He was also a champion of petit bourgeois manners and mores.
Joef Goebbels was a rake par excellence. His club-foot was not an impediment to skirt chasing. It may have slowed his […]