Harry´s Blog

Herbert Kuhner
The survivors,
after having been brutalized
and witnessing decimation,
learned the lesson
of humanity,
banished hatred from their hearts
and became kind, gentle and loving.
“Those who think that Jews will tread the moral high ground because they have suffered and experienced persecution are dead wrong. The main lesson of the Holocaust for Israelis is never again to go to the […]

Citizen Dichand
A great newspaper magnate has left us. He is irreplaceable. The Austrian media landscape will never be the same without him. His influence with luminaries and notables knew no bounds. Hans Dichand was a Brobdingnagian to their Lilliputians.
Dialogue Between Dichand and Lingens
I gave him (Dichand) a text in which I stated that Israel “targeted” […]

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 strange ethical persons
and transform it into a social program
for the […]

Herbert Kuhner
There’s a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to have suggested to the dishevelled Hofmann: “Why don’t you try acting, dear boy?!”
Robert Di Niro, Silvester […]

Herbert Kuhner
from Swing Man and Women
Louis
Louis played a fine Dixie horn
then he went on to swing
and he swung.
And what’s more,
Sing, Sing, Sing
is to his credit,
as well as other tunes
like Robin Hood
and Oh Babe.
Whenever and whatever Louis played,
he played pretty for the people.
This Louis,
like his namesake,
was good at scat
and got his act going
and went on to […]

Herbert Kuhner
The Big Night, directed by Stanley Tucci is about the art of cooking and art in general.
Time is the Fifties´. Primo and Secundo have left Italy for New Jersey and have established the Paradise Restaurant.
Primo is a culinary master who makes no compromises and Secundo, played by Tucci, is the front-man who takes care […]