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HERBERT KUHNER Romancier, Lyriker, Dramatiker und Übersetzer ist 1935 in Wien in geboren. Er emigrierte 1939 in die Vereinigten Staaten und studierte an der Lawrenceville School und Columbia University. Nach Wien kehrte er 1963 zurück, wo er als ein freier Schriftsteller und Übersetzer lebt.

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Remigration

Another topic I have “touched upon” is “remigration.” This word is a neologism, which means coming back to where you have been driven out.I've always said that I wanted a smooth ride, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes.

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Remarkable People

On the road I have traveled, I have met many remarkable people. First I name my friend and mentor the late Emile Capouya. “Mike” encouraged me over the years and published two of my books in New York.

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grew up in the United States, associating with the New York City jazz and coffee scene in the 1950s. ". . I've always said that I wanted to have smooth sailing, but I couldn't help rocking the boat. Rocking seems to be in my genes". As a subtitle I’ve chosen “Stepping out of line,” which is a movement my feet can’t seem to avoid making.

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Returning to my birthplace has given me a unique opportunity of writing on Third Reich Revisionism. This topic interlinks with Violence under the Guise of Art like pieces of a puzzle to reveal how the past manifests itself in the present.

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The Lhotzky Brothers

Herbert Kuhner
The Lhotzky Brothers do not rob banks like the James Boys or the Daltons. Kurt Lotzky is the owner of an alternative bookshop-buffet and Peter writes on aspects to the Austrian Civil War that are not public knowledge and is the author biographies socialists in days gone by who led exemplary lives.
Kurt Lhotzky’s “Literaturbuffet”
The […]

American Jewish poet Alter Brody

A Reading of

LAMENTATIONS

Four One-Act Plays
by
ALTER BRODY

took place
on
June 13th, 2009
at
The Jewish Theater: The Window
Kandlgasse 6/1
1070 Vienna
The American Jewish poet Alter Brody published A Family Album, a volume of poetry,  in the last year of World War I. He continued to publish in journals during the Twenties. In 1928, Brody published Lamentations, Four One Act Plays. After […]

Homage to the Three Stooges

Manny, Moe and Jack are not the Three Stooges; they’re the Pep Boys. The Pep Boys used their first names after Moe saw a dress shop called Minnie, Maude and Mabel’s, way back in the Twenties. The Pep Boys didn’t have an act. They were the owners of the Pep chain stores for auto parts.
The […]

Translator in Waiting

Breaking Down Borders
A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Burgenland Croatian Poetry
Croatian and English
Edited and Translated by
Peter Tyran and Herbert Kuhner
Breaking Down Borders/Zrusmo granice
is the new edition of
Hawks and Nightingales/Ptici i slauji,
We are in arrears.
The book is ready for publication - save for the final touches.
We’ll be finished when the final touches have been applied.
They have to […]

Opening Night: Waterbed Art Association

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. […]

The Second Time Around

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 […]

Florentina Pakosta

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 […]