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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 […]

From Violence Under the Guise of Art
or Third Reich Recycling.
In 1977 Valie Export was brought to trial for having engaged in cruelty to animals and found guilty of having tied a canary to a perch. However the scalding of the birds with boiling wax, which had been filmed, came under the statute of limitations. […]

Andy by Andy  
There he is: Andy on canvas
with the hair of his white wig standing on end,
as if he had stepped on a live wire.
It’s worth millions.
You can’t prove that it’s great.
And you can’t prove that it’s not.
You can’t prove that it’s worth the tab
and you can’t prove that it’s not.
It’s all a matter […]

Theodor Herzl
had gone the gamut.
First he thought
that assimilation
would solve the problem,
but he realized
that the dark clouds
looming on the horizon
would not be blown away
by neglect of religious practice
or mass conversions.
Besides, although there were many
who favored assimilation,
others wanted to continue
to lead a life within religious tradition.
So that idea had to be cast aside.
The vision of the dark […]

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Einladung
 Lyrikabend mit Gedichten aus der einzigartigen Sammlung von Herbert Kuhner (Lyriker, Dramatiker, Übersetzer, Poet)
Mit ausgewählten Gedichten bedeutender jüdischer LyrikerInnen (Alter Brody, Else Keren, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Tamar Radzyner, Stella Rotenberg, Thomas Sessler, Herbert Kuhner)
Es interpretieren: Rita Dummer, Karsten Rühl, Herbert Kuhner
Republikanischer Club, Rockhgasse 1- 1010 Wien
25.Feb 2010 19Uhr
Rita DUMMER & Karsten RÜHL
This brilliant acting duo will […]

Herbert Kuhner
Ethical Necessities
The Hermann Nitsch debate has been truncated long ago…
like the Valie Export debate.
Viennese actionism can no longer be the basis
for dispute in a civilized state;
it has been canonized for quite some time
and found its place in museums.
Today anyone who opposes actionism
simply disqualifies himself.
- Sigrid Löffler, star critic, Profil, Sept. 21, 1992
During the Third […]