Dictators and Good Deeds Did Hitler help an old lady to cross the street before he became the Führer? There is no account of such a deed. However, in Café Hofgarten in Munich in 1922, he was sitting near Lion[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
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The Way We Want it to Be Historian Ian Kershaw claims that Hitler’s appreciation of Wagner’s operas was more induced by the dramatic scenography of the productions he attended, rather than by the music. Indeed the productions of the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Samuel Greenberg Austro-American Poet Edited by Herbert Kuhner & Ecevit Ari Translated into German by Ecevit Ari Forthcoming: Edition PEN im Löcker Verlag, Vienna Introduction by Herbert Kuhner In 1903 a boy of seven left Vienna with his[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Utter Foolishness Historian Ian Kershaw claims that Hitler’s appreciation of Wagner’s operas was more induced by the dramatic scenography of the productions he attended, rather than by the music. These productions of the Vienna Opera House consisted of visual, as[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Supreme Leaking A hero or a heroine leaked that the Supreme Court was getting ready to overturn Roe v Wade in order to bring about a Renaissance of the Knitting Needle and the Back-Street Abortion (As our former POTUS promised.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Pope and Dogs and Cats Pope Francis on pets: “These marriages, in which the spouses do not want children,in which the spouses want to remain without fertility. This culture of well-being from ten years ago convinced us: ‘It’s better[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Herbert Kuhner from -Felled by Friendly Fire A Memoir Consisting of Autobiographical Short Pieces aus -Sorglose Tage und Jahre in der Heimat The German version of the Memoir is forthcoming by Edition Tarantel, Vienna Speaking German in a[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Three Guys in White Kaftans Sleep is good. Death is better. but even better yet would be not to have been born. – Heinrich Heine Life was a narrow cage, with multiple iron bars with only one escape[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Golden Anniversary of the Annexation At the unveiling of the monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, s peeches of regret were read by political luminaries, Church dignitaries, public figures and high-ranking military men. Poets read epics about the[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A Day in the Park There had been nothing, eventful in my life. Just school and then college. I had been an average student. Not bad to look at. Not that my looks were extraordinary. Of course there had been[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
The Key “It is incomprehensible to me how any Jew could ever return to the killing grounds. You chose to go to Hell and then you complain that the landscape is littered with devils.” – Cynthia Ozick, writer Before returning[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
A White Knight, an Elderly Damsel and Three Black Brigands Al Gore actually won the presidency in 2000. Bush and his cronies cheated him out of it. If the true winner had been instated, there would have been no[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
“Past” Events A German Translation (pdf-file) is available here:Ebner und die Vermittler I found this account of past Events among my papers, which I am going through for Boston University Library, where my work is collected. Protocol concerning Translators[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Herbert Kuhner Peter Handke and Srebrenica: Handke Quote, mistranslated Peter Handke said: „Schieben Sie sich Ihre Betroffenheit in den Arsch!“ This has been mis-translated as “You can shove your corpses up your ass!” My translation: Shove your dismay up your[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Eugen Bartmer © from C’est la Vie Bibliothek der Provence Timeless Padhi im 3. Jahrtausend angekommen wird täglich mir bewusst nun bin auch ich endgültig ein alter Alter die Wiener Mariahilferstraße dagegen ist auffällig jünger geworden im nachmittäglichen[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Too Much Cotton Orson Welles reaped great praise for Touch of Evil, a sloppy job compared with Kane, but nevertheless with moments of greatness like all post-Kane films. A corpulent Welles plays a dishevelled cop, but he felt needed a[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Interdenominational Occurrences Toni Faber, Chaplain of St. Stephan’s Cathedral priest extolls an artist: “I have much in common with Hermann Nitsch. I have always a fan of this artist. I even have an original Nitsch painting in my apartment.” [1][…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Überkonfessionelle Ereignisse Stephanskirche Dompfarrer Toni Faber ist ein Nitsch Fan „Mit Hermann Nitsch verbindet ihn viel. Er war immer ein Fan des Künstlers und hat sogar einen Original-Nitsch in seiner Wohnung hängen.“[1] Auszüge aus Die Eroberung von Jerusalem[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
Es ist alles so kompliziert © Martin Luksan Okt.2019 Herbert Kuhners Geschichte ist die des jüdischen Autors und Übersetzers, der nach Wien zurückkehrte und vom Betrieb der Literatur mehr oder weniger „ausgeschlossen“ wurde. Warum und in welcher Weise ist interessant.[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …
“Fine” Klu-Kluxers and Others During a Klu-Klux-Nazi rally in Charlottesville on August 11 to 12, 2017, civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed when a Klu-Kluxer rammed his car into anti-fascist demonstrators. Donald Trump comments: “You had people that were[…]↓ Lese den Rest dieses Eintrags …