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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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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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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 August, 2009

The Freedom Party and an “Exile-Jew from America”

Herbert Kuhner
As August fades into September, Vorarlberg Freedom Party Chief Dieter Egger has labeled Hanno Loewy, Director of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Voralberg, an “Exil Jew from America”. Herr Loewy had criticized the political posters of the Freedom Party.
“There is absolutely no reason to apologize”, stated Herbert Kickl, Austrian Freedom Party Secretary General.
Herr Egger, […]

The Fourth Reich in Word and Deed (6)

Herbert Kuhner
Negation in Six-Pack by the Republican Club
“Blasphemy, obscenity, charlatanism, sadistic excesses, orgies, the aesthetics of the cesspool are our moral means.  That includes rape and murder.  Murder is an integral part of sex.  - - - Otto Mühl, actionist
“Mühl’s specialty is minors and sex, and my speciality is the agonizing torture of animals….I could […]

The Fourth Reich in Word and Deed (5)

Herbert Kuhner
Peter Weibel Culture Commissar and Ideologue
“If we don’t prosper, the world will be blown up.”
- Peter Weibel, Actionist and Culture Commissar
Peter Weibel’s Credo: “The true heroes of freedom are those who commit crimes run amuck and assassinate. It is only possible for man to realize himself by running amuck, by murder and by assassination….I […]

The Fourth Reich in Word and Deed (4)

Herbert Kuhner
Monsignor Otto Mauer
Caretaker and Pater Familias
Monsignor Otto Mauer, pater familias of the actionists, was the official Catholic “caretaker of souls” for artists.
Otto Mauer in 1948, the years after the Holocaust: “The Jews have immense influence on communism and capitalism. They pass themselves off as defenders of humanity…but they are nothing but a depraved people […]

The Fourth Reich in Word and Deed (3)

Herbert Kuhner
Hermann Nitsch and the Color of Death
Hermann Nitsch: “I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability would be on another level….Thus, art can consist of a crime.”  Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”
And in comparison Hermann Nitsch: “I have been everything. I […]

The Fourth Reich in Word and Deed (2)

Herbert Kuhner
Otto Mühl, Guardian of Children
(With the Blessings of the Powers-That-Be)
Otto Mühl’s Credo:
The Friedrichshof Lord’s Prayer
Long live the whole!
I must resist temptation to sin against the whole
in sex as well as with my belongings
and in thought and deed.
Everything must be for the good of the whole.
I will terminate the program
that has been impressed on me
by […]

The Fourth Reich in Word and Deed (1)

Herbert Kuhner
Revisionism “vs.” Actionism
(Two Peas in a Pod)
Revisionists are those who look at the barbarism of yesteryear through rose-colored binoculars. A revisionist is not opposed to violence per se, he simply assumes the role critic when its perpetrators and advocates are associated with another political camp. This boils down to the pot calling the […]