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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

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 canvass, wood and stone, they used the human body, its fluids and secretions. These pioneers worked individually and as a group under the name of the Vienna Actionists, and Mauer concentrated his efforts on promoting them. With his backing, they set about conquering the International Art World, and indeed the trend has spread like wildfire.

Luminaries of the movement are Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Peter Weibel, Valie Export and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.

The motto épater le bourgeois was replaced by emmerder le monde. Public sado-masochism and brutality were the means.

Here is background material:

After the war, Otto Mauer along with Bishop Alois Hudal, who was located at the Vatican, was a member of the Vatican Ratline and aided escaping Nazis, as well as those who remained in Austria. Among Mauer’s protégés was former Third Reich publicist Otto Schulmeister, who in turn supported Mauer. Mauer and Schulmeister collaborated as editors on the Catholic cultural monthly Wort und Wahrheit together, which they founded in the Fifties.

Otto Schulmeister, 1989: “There were many swine at the time, not only brown ones.” Asked whether he regretted what he had written during the Third Reich in National Socialist organs, he replied: “Not in the least!”

Otto Mauer, pater familias of the actionists, was the official Catholic “caretaker of souls” for artists.

Otto Mauer in 1948, the years after the Holocaust: “The Jews have immense influence on communism and capitalism. They pass themselves off as defenders of humanity…but they are nothing but a depraved people with a perverted spirit….They have been condemned to eternal damnation….They invariably choose the evil path.”

Bishop Egon Kapellari, Austria’s Bishop for Art: “Monsignor Otto Mauer, the unforgotten sponsor of contemporary art of his time, wrote in his renowned text, “A Discourse on Art,” that he was aware that society, yes even the state, had to defend itself against anti-humanistic, racial discriminatory, anti-Semitic, etc. art. “

A year later Mauer was more “conciliatory.” In 1949 he wrote: “There is a solution to the Jewish problem, but just one: the Jews must recognize Christ as the Messiah, the heathens must become Christians…”

Otto Mauer, during the Third Reich: “The artist is in league with the devil, either as one possessed or as an exorcist.”

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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 den Grundsätzen der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Österreichs zu vereinbaren ist.

Herbert Kuhner

Mail to: herbert.kuhner@cello.at

Dollfuß & Schuschnigg rückblickend

aus Zwischenwelt
Literatur . Widerstand . Exil
23. Jg. Nr. 4 Juni 2007

Anläßlich eines Empfanges für Repräsentanten der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft am 13. Januar 1988, sagte Kurt Waldheim: “Mitverantwortung an dem, was im Jahre 1938 geschehen ist, hat aber auch die internationale Staatengemeinschaft zu tragen, die einem kleinen Land gegen die Aggression einer übermächtigen Diktatur nicht beigestanden ist.”

Was Waldheim vergaß, ist, daß das „kleine Land” nur bei Mussolini um Unterstützung angesucht hatte. Österreich hat nicht versucht, Garantien von England und Frankreich zu erreichen. Statt dessen hat sich Bundeskanzler Dollfuß an Benito Mussolini gewandt, der sich später wiederum Hitler annäherte.

Sicher, England und Frankreich haben die Tschechoslowakei 1938 in München im Stich gelassen, aber hätte Österreich 1933 versucht, ein Abkommen mit den westlichen Demokratien zu treffen, wäre die Geschichte vielleicht etwas anders gelaufen.

Im Februar 2006 sieht es Bundeskanzler Wolfgang Schüssel anders: „Ich glaube, diese Diskussion ist entschieden. Das Land selber war Opfer einer Aggression, und zwar einer militärischen Aggression. Der Beweis dafür ist, daß bereits in der Nacht nach dem Einmarsch Tausende verhaftet wurden. Hätte die Nazi-Führung den Eindruck gehabt, ganz Österreich jubelt, dann hätte es diese Verhaftungen nicht gegeben. Die gesamte politische Elite wurde de facto ausgeschaltet. Es gab Widerstand in allen Lagern. Das darf man nicht ignorieren. Die Alliierten haben das sehr wohl anerkannt (…) Ich werde nie zulassen, daß man Österreich nicht als Opfer sieht.” (1)

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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 down to it.” says Daniel, “I took a cigarette lighter and tried to set the animals alight, but they didn’t burn very well. So I went to a garbage bin and took some newspaper.” The fifteen-year-old placed it under the nest and set it alight. “There was a small fireworks. Three chicks burned to ash, but two were still alive. “We tossed one up and kicked it with our feet. We took the other and placed it on the sidewalk.” Then Daniel and Karlheinz took sharp stones and alternated in hitting the bird until its head was severed. “After that, we took photos of the dead bird with our cell phones.”

from Violence under the Guise of Art
or Third Reich Recycling
by Herbert Kuhner

In 1973 the news media reported that Valie Export had poured boiling wax over live birds. Recently Export has claimed that the birds were dead before she poured the wax over them.
This version was “confimed” by the late Kristian Sotriffer, an art critic: “The birds were of course not ‘preserved’ in wax while they were alive ….The report in the yellow press was fictitious and was designed to cause an uproar among petit bourgeois readers.”

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. This “art object” was on view as part of the Export Exhibition, introduced by Jelinek, 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.

Valie 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.”

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

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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 that at the time, he was, of course, unsurpassed.

His name was Karl Bockerer. Regretfully Karl was not a real person. He is the hero of the play Der Bockerer by Ulrich Becker and Peter Preses. Bockerer is their only success. It is one of the most popular Austrian plays, but the playwrights couldn’t follow up.

During the time Austria’s incorporation in the Third Reich, Karl says everything that should be said. And he doesn’t whisper, he shouts. Imagine that! And he’s there at the end of the play to welcome the Russian liberators before the curtain comes down. Karl is a butcher who speaks his mind to the Nazi butchers. But somehow, due to his charm they don’t butcher him.
The play belongs to the category of what’s called “boulevard theater” in the German-speaking world. Translating the word is easy since boulevard = boulevard. But there is no translation for the term. A boulevard play is entertaining with plenty of laughs but with no serious aspirations

Anyway, the Austrian director Franz Antel filmed the play in 1981. Antel was awarded a prize at the Moscow Film Festival and has followed up by three sequels. Becher and Preses couldn’t do the scripts since they are long dead.

Antel, at one time called Hans Weigel, an Austrian writer “a lousy Jew!” and added. “I was a Nazi and I’m proud of it!”

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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 were crimes. The bombing of these cities preceded the bombing of German cities.

Yes, there’s no mitigation for bombing, murder, rape and dispersion. However, had the Hitler Gang not engaged in such practices and had the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe remained within German borders, and had Nazi Germany not engaged in these practices, these crimes would not have happened - they would not have happened to the victims of Nazi Germany, nor would they have happened to Germans.

Commemorating German victims, while ignoring the victims of Nazi Germany, is the epitome of mendacity and villainy.

- Herbert Kuhner

(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 is not a matter of provocation.”

(And the creative genius Mozart,
excuse me, I mean Schlingensief,
is right. It is not a matter of provocation
but rather a matter of enlightenment!)

“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

the scrotum that itches”

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