Harry´s Blog

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

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 […]

Vernissage Padhi Frieberger in Studio 18 Gallery
17.06.08-6.30 p.m- on Waehringer Guertel 75 - 1180 Vienna
Herbert Kuhner
Charlie came first and then came Buster. Charlie pratfell and caused pratfalls, and he battered around with the heavies. Charlie had a mean streak but Buster was gentle. The Looney Tunes cartoon characters carried on in the roughhouse manner. […]

Being able to forget keeps you young!
Minister With a Past
The Minister of the Interior,
Trotzkist, Maoist
and Ho Chi Minh demonstrator
in his student days,
gave orders to the police
to break up a peaceful
pro-ecology demonstration
with the use of truncheons and dogs.
. . . . . . . . . . […]

The list of Austrian poets that Herbert Kuhner has rendered into English reads like Who’s Who in modern Austrian poetry.
- Harry Zohn, Brandeis University, Modern Austrian Literature, Riverside, CA
The translations are impressive (poems by Johannes Urzidil). I would like to express my undivided admiration for Herbert Kuhner. He has remained true to the originals and […]

Herbert Kuhner
Black gold is the rub.
Paul Wolfowitz: “…we just had no choice in Iraq.
The country swims on a sea of oil.”
Yes, Wolfy, it’s blood for oil. But it’s no skin off your ass,
is it?
“When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, supported by (President) Ford,  pushed a plan to have government help develop alternative sources of energy and […]

Tricolore Pictures/Trikolore Bilder
May 21st - June 16th 2008-05-21
Galerie Suppan * Contemporary
Habsburgergasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Mo.-Fri. 10-18 * Sat. 10-12: 30
Tel. +43 1 535 535 4
info@suppancontemporary.com
www.suppancontemporary.com
Florentina Pakosta
The subject of Florentina Pakosta’s paintings is often the common man. He turns up in oils, dull and blunt in earthen and mud colors with touches of ochre, as well as […]

CNN Opens its Doors to Old Time Religion
After the Times of New York took on that eloquent conservative pundit Bill Cristol, CNN, not to be outdone, invited babe in the woods Tony Snow and tough gal Laura Ingraham onto their sacred secular.
Unfortunately, George W.’s former veracious mouthpiece did not heed Bill O’Reilly’s candid warning: […]

FOX Sexpert-ism
Fox News stands for objective reporting and integrity. What’s more is the conscience of the nation. Fox is a fighter against liberalism and libertinism. Foxmen advocate conservative and family values and they favor the omnipresence of the Deity in all walks of life. But this does not mean that Fox is straight-laced. Fox is […]

I’ve always claimed that I wanted to have smooth sailing,
but I couldn’t help rocking the boat.
Rocking seems to be in my genes.
The powers-that-be prefer to let things ride,
until the blister breaks and something has to be done.
Riding is invariably comfortable - as well as being profitable.
The revisionists help perpetuate “cruelty in the name of art” […]

Hitler couldn’t have been such a bad person. After all, by intervening against the communists in the civil war, he saved Spain for Christianity. He couldn’t have killed six million Jews. It couldn’t have been more than four million.
- Saint Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei (1902 -1975)
God, who directs […]

divisible morals
sports and politics
they say
are two different things
they say
referring to the dark years
of murder and death
in the past
they were fellow travelers
they say
nazis
and knew what was going on
and bore responsibility for it
they say
referring to the past
sports and politics
they say
are two different things
they say
and mean murder and death
today
in tibet
-translated from the German
by Herbert Kuhner

Sphere: Related Content

Jozo has left us
My friend Jozo has left us for the Universe.
I first met him when I attended the Struga Evenings Poetry Festival in 1972. I last saw him at that venue in 1982. We kept in touch after that. I didn’t think I’d never see him again. God, how I miss him! He was […]

Religion Without God
Ah yes, the Lefties! It took quite a while for them to face up to Stalin’s deeds. In the Thirties, there were purges, the show trials and the execution of the fellow revolutionaries, the general staff and anyone who happened to fall victim to the benevolent dictator’s whims and moods. The Lefties gulped […]

Other directors can make films on important themes. I like to go to see them. However, I prefer to make films using details that others edit out. I’ve always been interested in the little things that are considered unimportant but that make up most of our lives.
- Jim Jarmusch
Yes, Jim takes those details and weaves […]

Barney Kulok - Compositions Photographique
April 5th - May 13th 2008
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
Galerie d’Art Contemporain
5 bis rue des haudriettes
75003 Paris
Téléphone 01 48 87 60 81 - Fax 01 48 87 05 01
info@galeriehussenot.com
Photographic Compositions by Barney Kulok
Barney Kulok has termed his photographic compositions “Simple Facts.” This is an apt description. The facts are indeed simple, but they […]

According to Church Law it is ethical for a man to infect his whole family with aids, including his children. For it is Mortal Sin to prevent this from happening by the use of condoms….A man who has been infected with aids is justified in cohabiting with his wife. If he uses condoms, he is […]

Let us also pray for the Jews. So that God our Lord enlightens their hearts so that they recognize Jesus Christ savior of all men. Almighty and everlasting God…mercifully grant that all Israel may be saved.
- Pope Benedict XVI, Good Friday Sermon, 2008, catholicintl.com
Jesus did not partake of euthanasia, but his death was dignified because […]

“Again and again there are shameful discussions concerning Austrians having been accomplices or victims. This makes it imperative for me to say that there is certainly no country in Europe that can more adequately describe itself as a victim than Austria!…When there’s a great commotion somewhere, many people will come to cheer. If you mention […]

“The Free Word”
Neue Kronen-Zeitung
March 13, 2008
Otto von Hapsburg, the oldest son of the last Austrian emperor and one of the great Europeans of the first hour, stated at the occasion of a commemoration for the events of March 1938 in parliament „There is no state in Europe that has more right to describe […]

Bill and Hillary
Speaking of Bill and the Mrs.,
in my view, if he had whetted his own cigar,
we wouldn’t be in the Iraqi predicament.
Bill’s a charming and capable fellow,
but I have the old-fashioned view
that if anyone is involved in a pants-down scandal,
or any kind of scandal, he should bow out
and hand the reins over to the […]

Compassionate Rush
Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older
before their eyes on a daily basis?
I am not asking the American people to look at Mrs. Clinton that way.
I’m just asking if they will. Men aging makes them look more
authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. It’s the way it works.
Did aging in office hurt Hillary’s husband, […]

Noblesse Oblige and Hillary
Here’s a dollop of noblesse oblige
from right-winger John Spencer,
Hillary’s former foe for the New York Senate seat:
“You ever see a picture of her back then?
Whew, I don’t know why Bill married her.
Whew, she was hideous before ‘work.’
Noting Hillary Clinton looks much different now,
he chalked it up to “millions of dollars” of […]

The Mouth as Launcher
Helen went off to Troy with Paris,
leaving King Menelaus behind in Sparta.
Helen had the face “that launched a thousand ships,”
ships that carried Greeks to fight a war that lasted a decade.
Monica’s mouth was attached
to what may not be the wrong place
under certain circumstances,
but was the wrong place in this instance,
as far as […]

Bill and Arnie Call a Spade a Spade
Bill looked me and a few other people square in the eye, squinting his eyes,
and said: “I want you to listen to me - I’m going to say this again -
I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky.”
I believed him then and I still do. […]

She’s young and beautiful, and made every effort to garner a past as quickly as possible. After college, there was a short stint as a secretary, which she broke off to become a stripper. And stripping today means more than removing your clothes and underclothes one by one. The stereotypical climax of an act is […]

Dan was an American Nazi way back in the Lincoln Rockwell days. He was a true fan of the Führer, and he was convinced that quondam leader Germany had hit the jackpot with the racial laws. A party comrade painted a portrait of him in uniform in Adolf-pose with smokestacks in the background.
Dan did not […]

Apple Strudel and Arthur Schnitzler
I found the book in a chain bookshop in Heathrow Airport. It contained interviews of “former” high-ranking Nazis made in the late Seventies and early Eighties. (I cannot credit the book at this writing, since it absconded from my library. Unfortunately, I did not note down the author, title or […]

Book Shops
I loved the Village when it was the Village. That was when, in addition to cafés, fine restaurants, bakeries and interesting small shops, there were bookshops and theaters.
There was of course the great 8th St. Bookshop and there was also a spacious one on Sixth Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets, near the subway […]

Hangmen Also Die

Hangmen Also Die, was made in 1943 by Fritz Lang and originally scripted by Bertolt Brecht. It would have been Brecht’s only Hollywood film credit, but the great film director scrapped the great writer’s script, leaving Brecht with a legendary half a credit.
I don’t know what Lang threw out, but what he […]

A Wonderful Human Being
There is a wonderful human being who does wonderful things. There was only one thing that the wonderful human being did that wasn’t wonderful. He sent someone, who was anything but wonderful, to Kingdom Come.
What to do! The question is should one turn a blind eye or should justice be done?
If the […]

Kafka and Dr. K.
German version published in Minki die Nazi Katze und die menschliche Seite, Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft
There are basically two types of hypocrites: those who are too weak to live up to what they preach and those who have no intention whatever of living up to it. The latter seems to […]

Herbert Kuhner is an exceedingly weak author who would certainly not be able to represent Austria in any way….I sincerely regret that Herbert Kuhner feels himself persecuted by me and failure (apparently one and the same)….Mr. Kuhner already has a reputation in Vienna for making totally unfounded accusations….He is in a different psychological situation. There […]

Herbert Kuhner
Ordinary murderers kill after they have raped a woman or they kill to acquire money. These terrorists (Bader-Meinhof) thought that by murdering they had to take action against the murder of hundreds of thousands of children in Vietnam and they thought that they had to take action against the poverty in the Third World. […]

The Clintons favor land mines and cluster bombs. Over 150 nations have signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. That year President Bill Clinton refused to sign that treaty. After his election, President George W. Bush declared that the United States would never sign.
In 2006 Senate Amendment No. 4882 would have banned the use of […]

The Republican Party is the Party of the Righteous,
and its paladins are spearheading
the War Against the “Gay Agenda.”
Here’s Pat Buchanan, the right-wing pundit:
“Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider
not only immoral, but filthy. (1)
AIDS is nature’s retribution for violating the laws of nature. (2)
Homosexuality is not a civil right.” (3)
And Alan […]

Herbert Kuhner

Who’s has the Gray Lady’s new columnist? Guess!
Is it Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly or Bill Kristol?
Here’s Bill K.: “I want to hear less about helping the Iraqi people
and more about winning this war.” (1)
This brings Nixon to Kissinger on Vietnam to mind:
“You’re so goddamned concerned about the civilians,
and I don’t give a […]

Herbert Kuhner
There was a cartoon in Paul Krassner’s Realist decades ago. A man lifts up the flap of a tent in which a man sits cross-legged on the ground. “Hey, Onan,” the man outside says, “ya’ made the Bible!”
Onan did indeed achieve notoriety, and his name became synonymous with the singular action.
Here’s the story, according […]

Herbert Kuhner
These days, when marriage is no longer a social necessity, those who previously had an aversion to the sacred knot, like gays and profligates, are making a bee-line for the altar
Profligates, who enter respectable professions (such as politics), need a cover for changing partners and casual encounters, and what can provide that better than […]