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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.

Herbert Kuhner

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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Vienna Today

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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Sharron Squeezes and Breaks

Sharron Angle, Tea-Party Republican candidate for the Nevada Senate, wants to outlaw abortion universally, even in cases of rape and incest. She insists that a young girl raped by her father should know that “two wrongs don’t make a right. “Much good can come from a horrific situation like that,” Angle added. ‘Lemons can be made into lemonade.’”

sharron.jpgYes Sharron, you need lemons for lemonade. And while you’re squeezing them, don’t forget, “If you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs.”

And while Sharron is squeezing and breaking, here’s Bishop Andreas Laun of Salzburg, Austria. If a child is raped and becomes pregnant, the child should have the child. “I would inform the child of the wonder of the new life in her body - that it is partially her child which will long for the love of a mother and that that it would grow up like a brother or a sister. I also say to her: This will enable you to heal wound that you have acquired …”
- Kreuz.net Catholic News, Interview with Bishop Andreas Laun, Sept. 9, 2006

- Herbert Kuhner

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High Crimes by Men of the Cloth

Herbert Kuhner

The great crimes on this earth are murder and rape. A murderer takes the life of a human being. A rapist violates a human being.

Pedophilia is rape of an infant, a child or a minor. Pedophilia can be effected by either violent means or by seduction. Committing the crime of pedophilia is tantamount to the murder of an infant, a child or a minor.

Pedophilia is rape of an infant, a child or a minor. Pedophilia can be effected by either seduction, intimidation or violent means

The suffering of a murdered victim ceases after he has been killed. A victim of rape is
spiritually killed but continues to live.

Pope John Paul II in his 2005 book Memory and Identity compared the Holocaust to abortion, as did many other men of the cloth. He wrote that both abortion and the murder of six million Jews were the result of humans under the guise of democracy usurping the “law of God.”
- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 68, May 1, 2008

The Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, “put women who had had an abortion in a row with mass murderers like Hitler, Stalin and Herod. He compared abortion to the Holocaust and the abortion pill with Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis in the extermination camps.”
- BBC Online, February 22, 2005.

Yes, these holy men want stamp out legalized abortion, which would mean a revival of the back-street variety and bring the knitting needle into play again. (According to APA, unsafe abortions cause 70,000 deaths a year internationally.) The holy men concentrate their efforts on fighting against “murder before birth” but what about murder after birth? The word “Holocaust” would certainly be more appropriate to describe the fate of the victims of pedophilia.

Both Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI oversaw the hush-up and the shuffling around of pedophile priests. Ratzinger, who was Wojtyla’s ideologue, now lays the blame for the cover-up on Wojtyla. Yes, Ratzinger is as innocent as the driven snow!

Motivation

Sexual behavior between consenting adults is nobody’s business. If the Catholic Church makes it their business, it is “their” business. However, criminal acts are the business of society.

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A Trip Down Memory Lane

Herbert Kuhner

Herr Kuhner, if you do not withdraw your case, we will send the public health officer.
- Anonymous caller

Martin Luksan suggested I tackle this again, so here goes!

Yes, this is a trip down Memory Lane, but there is nothing sentimental about it. These were not the good old days. There’s no dabbing at the edges of your eyes with a hankie when you think back.

I’d like to express my gratitude to all the people I encountered who helped me achieve a better understanding of the past.

My First Experience with Inhumanity:
Let me go back to 1938. I was three at the time. My mother and I were in my grandmother’s apartment in Rueppgasse in the 2nd district of Vienna. The doorbell to my grandmother’s rang. I ran to the door and opened it. It was the SA. They entered to ransack the apartment. One of them, I remember clearly, wore a brown suit and limped. The other wore a grey suit. They searched the apartment. The brown-suited man pushed my grandmother, who was eighty-three away from the sideboard in order to ransack it. And indeed it contained her shopping money.

I see that occurrence as clearly as if it were taking place right now.

My parents left what had become Ostmark with me in 1939. Members of my family who remained at that address, as well as at Kärntnertrasse 28, my paternal grandmother’s address, were deported and murdered. Incidentally the latter address used to be occupied by the Educational Academy of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party. It is now the home of a trend chain store.

After my return to Austria in 1963, I set about translating and publishing Austrian poets. I considered it my special mission to render those poets who had experienced the Shoah.

The conditions were anything but sanguine and salubrious. It was as if I had never left.

I soon got into hot water. Apparently, I can’t let things be. I simply had to stir the pot. And I seem to keep on stirring and stirring.

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. Stepping out of line, which is a movement my feet can’t seem to avoid making.

I’ve been termed a troublemaker. Yes, that’s what I am, and that’s what I’ll be as long as I am on this planet.

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The Lesson

Herbert Kuhner

The survivors,
after having been brutalized
and witnessing decimation,
learned the lesson
of humanity,
banished hatred from their hearts
and became kind, gentle and loving.

“Those who think that Jews will tread the moral high ground because they have suffered and experienced persecution are dead wrong. The main lesson of the Holocaust for Israelis is never again to go to the slaughter like lambs! If struck, we will strike back. Nations and governments do not have values - they only have interests.”
- Avi Primor, Die Presse, June 20, 2010, p. 48

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Dichand Obituary

Citizen Dichand
A great newspaper magnate has left us. He is irreplaceable. The Austrian media landscape will never be the same without him. His influence with luminaries and notables knew no bounds. Hans Dichand was a Brobdingnagian to their Lilliputians.

Dialogue Between Dichand and Lingens
I gave him (Dichand) a text in which I stated that Israel “targeted” known terrorists, which is preferable to killing innocent civilians at random.

“If you always write against the views of the majority, we will not be able to come to an agreement,” he replied.

“I am aware of that,” I answered, “but I thought that you could accept an opinion that might differ from those views in your voluminous journal.

“That would be contrary to our formula of success.”

- Peter Michael Lingens, Profil, 21, Juni 2010, Nr. 25, S. 113

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Otto Mühl, Roman Polanski and the Pope

Otto Mühl’s Credo:
“The Friedrichshof Lord’s Prayer
Long live the whole!
I must resist temptation to sin against the whole
in sex as well as with my belongings
and in thought and deed.
Everything must be for the good of the whole.
I will terminate the program
that has been impressed on me
by strange ethical persons
and transform it into a social program
for the good of the whole.
I think, work, act and feel
exclusively for the whole.
Without the whole I am nothing.”(1)

Roman Polanski
The Pedophile’s Credo:
“Judges want to fuck young girls.
Juries want to fuck young girls.
Everyone wants to fuck young girls!”
- Martin Amis in Tatler and “Visiting Mrs Nabokov,” 1979.

(Right you are but wrong you are, Mr. Polanski.
Not every pedophile has his sights on young girls.)

In these days when superficial apologies by celebrities for indiscretions abound, Otto Mühl and Pope Benedict XVI apologized concurrently on June 11, 2010.

And as a gesture of good will two pedophile priests were reinstated in the Austrian Province of Styria by Bishop Egon Kapellari on the preceding day. (2)

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Valie Export’s 70th

From Violence Under the Guise of Art
or Third Reich Recycling
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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. (1) This “art object” was on view as part of the Export Exhibition in the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna in March of 1997. On March 17, 1997, in Treffpunkt Kultur, a program devoted to culture on ORF, Austrian State TV, films by Export were broadcast. In one scene Export uses a bloody kitchen knife to slice the neck of a turtle, a mouse and a parrot, but the actual decapitations are deleted by film cutting.(2)

valie_export.jpgValie Export “herself”: “A bird is tied to a rostrum with thin cord. I kneel in front of the bird on the rostrum and pour hot liquid wax on it. Then I pour wax on my feet and my left hand; the wax container is knocked over and the bird’s head is covered with wax. I free myself by cutting the cord with a knife which I lifted from the rostrum with my mouth and use it. The rostrum is encircled by nails.” (3)

After Export was invited to submit a design for the monument on Judenplatz some years ago, she had thoughts about the Holocaust. “Not directly or for a specific reason, as happened when I was invited to participate in the competition.” She didn’t win that one, but on August 28, 1999, her anti-fascistic monument in Allentsteig, Lower Austria, was unveiled. She may be able to contribute a valid analysis since violence plays a primary role in her work.

In the spring of 1995, an official Austrian exhibit commemorating prominent Austrians who were forced to emigrate was shown at 565 Fifth Avenue in New York. The organizer of the exhibit and co-editor of the accompanying book, The Cultural Exodus from Vienna (5)  is Peter Weibel, who is also co-editor of the previously-mentioned Wien. Among the highlights of the latter scholarly work are photos of co-editor Export engaging in fellatio with Weibel. Here’s a quote from the horse’s mouth: “When Valie Export is sucking my cock, one can see it.”(6)

Also featured in this volume is the depiction of an event in Cologne organized by Weibel and Export in which bullwhips, coils of barbed wire, beer bottles and ether were used to injure actionists and members of the audience. (7)  One of the most revolting aspects of the book is the juxtaposing of documentary photos of murdered children with photos of Hermann Nitsch actions with innards. (8)  Thus, infanticide too is part of Show Biz. Nitsch: “Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”(9)

During the Third Reich children were taught to kill birds
with their hands in a camp called Kinderland,
which translates as “Children’s Land.”(10)

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