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From Stromboli to The Visit
Ingrid Bergman left Hollywood to make Stromboli for Roberto Rosselini in 1949. Her intention was to leave Tinsel-Town glamour behind her to in order make neo-realistic European films. And Roberto’s manly appeal may have influenced her decision. Roberto had made Roma, Open City and Paisa, which are indeed stunning. Some film […]

Profil 22. Jänner 2007, Profil 4, Seite 87
Interview
Bronner: Dazu folgende Geschichte: Der Theaterkritiker Hans Weigel bekam von der Burgschauspielerin Käthe Dorsch anläßlich eines Verrisses die legendäre Watschn. Aus diesem Vorfall machte ich die Nummer “Hit me, Kate”. Eines Abends saß Franz Antel mit großem Gefolge in der “Marietta”. Just nach “Hit me, Kate” verließ er […]

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.
. . . . . . . . . . […]

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” […]

Hillary’s Hands
If Hillary’s in the White House
and the red phone rings,
the little girl sleeping in her bed
can go on sleeping safely
‘cause her life’s in Hillary’s hands.
The child in the eight-year-old clip
is approaching her eighteenth birthday.
She objects to being used in a Hillary ad
and wants to cast her vote for Obama.
- Herbert Kuhner

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Herbert Kuhner
In the Nineteen-Fifties Monsignor Otto Mauer, was instrumental in introducing modern art to post-war Austria. He founded the “Galerie St. Stephan” in Vienna and promoted such avant-garde artists as Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl und Markus Prachensky.
However, artists came on the scene, whose work transcended theirs in sensationalism. Rather than using such materials as […]

Einladung an Josef Kalina
vom 06.09.2001
Ehemaliger SPÖ-Funktionär soll Stellung nehmen.
Josef Kalina, ehemaliger Pressesekretär von Bundeskanzler Viktor Klima und jetzige Redakteur für Kommunalpolitik bei der Kronen-Zeitung, wird eingeladen, zu den infamen Hetz-„Gedichten” von Wolf Martin und den unmenschlichen und revisionistischen Leserbriefen im sogenannten “Freien Wort”, einen Kommentar abzugeben. Es wäre interessant zu hören, wie dies alles mit […]

Here’s an except from an article in News August, 30, 2007 titled “Yes, we wanted to kill!” Three Styrian youths planned to murder a woman. They wanted to hear death cries, so they set bird chicks on fire. Nineteen-year-old Karlheinz recalls that Daniel told him how “terrific” it is to kill animals. “We got right […]

There’s a man who shot off his mouth for seven long years in Austria. There are others who have done it for longer, but not under the circumstances. The guy I’m talking about did it between 1938 and 1945. At the time Austria was not Austria, but “Ostmark.” So that makes a difference. By doing […]

Commemorates the Victims of the Allied Bombing during World War II on May 8, 2004 at Hero’s Square in Vienna
According to Herr Strache the bombing of German cities by the Allies was a crime. If that is the case, then it must follow that the bombing of Geurnica, Rotterdam, Warsaw, London, Coventry and so on […]

(Retrospective Salzburg 2006)
- Herbert Kuhner
“The cat is out of the bag:
Christoph Schlingensief’s ‘Animatograf’ Number six
can be seen since Saturday afternoon
at the Museum der Moderne on Mönchsberg
in Salzburg: ‘Chickenballs: Testicle Park.’
is part of the Summer Exhibit
Titled ‘Les Grands Spectacles II’”
“Mozart plays with his sex organ, etc., etc., etc!”
“Schlingensief personally declared
at the opening of the exhibit
that it […]

from Zwischenwelt, no. 4, June 2007, Vienna, p 38.
Fritz Hausjell, professor for journalism in Vienna and the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge) have protested against the naming of the Salzburg Prize for Journalism after René Marcic, the former editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten. Hausjell and öge have proposed that this prize be named after […]

David Ben Gurion: “Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: they think we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it’s […]

Text of Brockhaus Encyclopedia add with photo of distinguished critic:
“He who knows much wants to know more.” […]

The jury, which is independent of the Municipal Cultural Department has unanimously cast its vote against this book (Der Ausschluss/Memoirs of a 39er)….I feel that I must adhere to that decision.
- Dr. Ursula Pasterk, the Municipal Cultural Coordinator of the City of Vienna
Your behavior is revolting and uncouth. You have a persecution complex.
- Peter Bochskanl, […]

After Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Herbert Kuhner was forced to leave Austria in 1939. In his Memoirs Kuhner presents the balance sheet. His book deals with his experiences after returning to the “new Austria.” In it he describes the incredible chain of intrigue, baseness and calumny that he has encountered. The aspects […]

Herbert Kuhner is an exceedingly weak author who could never represent Austria in any way.
- Wolfgang Kraus, Head of the Austrian Literary Society.
If you are man enough, you will apologize to Dr. Kraus.
- Gregor Woschnagg, Austrian Foreign Office
Kuhner is an insignificant author and will never read on our premises.
- Reinhard Urbach, Austrian Literary Society.
He […]

Li Peng, the guest, dictates the rules
Ban on demonstrations. On the second day of Chinese Premier Li Peng’s state visit to Austria, there was not one demonstrator or one protest banner to be seen, nor was there one “Li Peng go home!” shout to be heard. A large contingent of police was called out to […]

PETER WEIBEL
vortrag bei „kunst und revolution”, 7.6.69 über finanzminister dr.stephan koren
ich kannte universitäteprofessor dr. stephan koren, er war ein krüppel und wollte mir immer zeigen, dass er einer ist wie ich. mir zur beweis hat er sich zum minister hinaufgeangelt . auch nur mit einem arm, der arme. doch wenn finanzminister koren mit der linken […]

Herbert Kuhner
A key quotation by Nitsch: “I no longer intend to place a humane corset on my work.”[91]
In […]

Der Meister (Nitsch) selbst: „Was hat der Rudi (Schwarzkogler) für einen herrlichen Schwanz. Warum hat er mir nicht seine Leiche vermacht? Dabei hat er ihm Monsignore Mauer eingebrockt, der den Bruder Rudi begraben hat.”[81]
Rudolf Schwarzkogler verübte Selbstmord als die endgültige „Aktion”. Es wird behauptet, daß Schwarzkogler seinen Penis abgeschnitten hat, bevor er sich aus einem […]

Press Conference, Café Landtmann, Vienna, March 1, 2004 by former members of the Commune: “According to the latest information, Otto Mühl began to abuse small children from the ages of four to five in the 1970s. He did this regularly over the years. Such abuse took place at times in front of the Commune Leadership […]

Austrian Cultural Commissar Peter Weibel about a political figure, who happens to have been a man of integrity: “I […]

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“. . . We guarantee Nitsch the protection of the state for practicing his profession freely.”
- Dr. Peter Wittmann […]

Herbert Kuhner
It is impossible for me to deal with Austrian actionism without referring to my own fate as a […]

Herbert Kuhner
Hier sind Zitate aus dem Film Das Meisterspiel von Lutz Dammbeck, in welchem der 1994 erfolgte und bis […]