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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

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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 […]

David will be visiting Vienna from July 14th to 18th.
A meeting can be arranged by contacting Harry Kuhner.
The following poem was inspired by our mutual friend Jozo Boskovski
who left us this year for the Universe.
- H. K.
The Man Who Said “Maybe”
He said a European flight
from Macedonia
took more time going
than returning
because the earth turned favorably.
Try to […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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I met Herby in his and my Glenn period. Glenn had been precursor of the new era. But now the word was getting around. Beatle-itus was at its height and the mini-skirt had just come in. Glenn was one of Vienna’s first hippies. Short, well-packed, a broad […]

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I think that The Assembly-Line Prince, which I enjoyed in manuscript form, is the picaresque novel of our times. The Segment titled. Wedding bell: poet’s death knell was my favorite of many delightful passages. But the ending was great too, had me laughing out loud – partly with relief, […]

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
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. […]

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 […]

The life of a handsome little boy was snuffed out. He left this earth at the age of 17 months before Christmas of 2007.
His mother’s boyfriend had severely beaten him and sexually abused him.
The mother brought the injured boy to a hospital, where his physical injuries were cared for. Then the authorities returned him to […]

No Art Without Artists/Revisited Museum of Applied Arts, […]

The Federal President has asked me to inform the Austrian people that we will give way to force. We have ordered our armed forces to withdraw without resisting in case the invasion takes place and to await the decisions of the coming hours, for we are not willing to spill German blood at this grave […]

Herbert Kuhner
We were in Locust Valley on the Island at the time. That day was a year after the war had ended. I hated going to school, and that morning I said I wasn’t going to go. I had said the same thing on other mornings, and after saying it I had walked to the […]

In memoriam Monsignor Otto Mauer
The street was almost as narrow as an alley. The widely separated street lamps were just puffs of haze in the darkness and of little help in making out the house numbers. Squinting, I found what I hoped was the right number, stumbled over the shadowy steps, righted myself, hesitated a […]

From The Sons of Camus Writers International Journal for Archievment, given by editor Ann J. Davidson to Herbert Kuhner on 30 October 2007.

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Padhi at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 2007
“A genius is at work here - and nobody takes notice”
But now they are taking notice!
Padhi Frieberger’s One-Man Show
Padhi’s Key: “I not only conceived my work, I lived it.”

Padhi Is Here
(from the catalogue)
Herbert Kuhner
Charlie came first and then came Buster. Charlie pratfell and caused pratfalls, and he […]

Shades shielding his eyes,
walkman plugs
in his ears,
chewing gum
in his mouth,
a butt between his lips -
he’s safe.
Yes, he’s safe from
thinking a thought.
The iPod is his filter
as he goes from one techno temple
to another.
All the digital and techno accoutrements
are not the accoutrements of democracy,
but rather the accoutrements of dictatorship.
Techno music at full blast and multiple flatscreens
blot out […]

Herbert Kuhner
The news was a death blow. The death blow! The end was in sight. Soon it would be over and I would embark on life’s greatest adventure. I would cross the border between the world of light and the world of darkness. I would transcend existence. The greatest secret would finally be revealed to […]

The BBC documentary Sexual Crimes and the Vatican is based on a 1962 memo from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “The document reaffirmed the inviolability of the seal of confession, but the BBC film said that it was intended to ‘protect and hide’ abusive priests….There was to be an oath of secrecy […]

from The Assembly-Line Prince
a novel by Herbert Kuhner
I was in the doldrums when Herby’s call came. He had a film Job for me. I was to do the limericks for Hans Fantel’s new sexcapade The Madam’s Hussar. I would also double as English speech coach. Herby was the hussar’s adjunct. The cast was international (and […]

There is an official Committee whose task is to evaluate the artistic works of the late great Andy Warhole. In other words, the Committee separates the wheat from the chaff and sets a price on the former. Of course there is no real chaff since everything is wheat, but some of the wheat is worth […]

I always loved Campbell’s Tomato Soup. When I was a child, my mother used to serve it to me mixed with milk and with a boiled potato in it. It was my favorite soup dish and I never got tired of eating it. Today I have sentimental attachment to it, although I now prefer Heinz […]

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 […]

Here’s a Taliban speaker at the beginning of the century on the opposite sex:
“How can you trust anyone who bleeds once a month?!”
And here’s Australian Mufti Sheik Taj Din al-Halali on the subject of the opposite sex:
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden
or in […]

The Jews are sure that the Almighty,
who is actually an anti-Semite,
loves them more than anything else.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Runners to Nowhere
What’s more, He’s a Jewish anti-Semite,
which is even worse.
- H. K.
Jews created a Jewish God for Jews, who in turn created them. Jehovah was “wrathful and jealous,” in other words an ornery sort […]

(Watch the goose-step!)
A Duo
He’s in the media; she’s in politics. He and she are in the forefront of every liberal cause and their names are on every manifesto. They take every opportunity to that affords itself to convey information concerning the barbarity of the Third Reich and its repercussions on the present. They are, as […]