Harry´s Blog

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)

Read more »

Herbert Kuhner

“Jan Karski, a member of the Polish underground, met with President Franklyn D. Roosevelt and Supreme Justice Felix Frankfurter, informing them of the Holocaust.On. July 28, 1943.

“With Roosevelt he raised the matter of providing hard currency to buy Jews out of the ghetto.

“The President rebuffed him: “No one will like to know that we are subsidizing Hitler with gold and silver. Mr Karski, this is impossible; we will not do it.”

Karski then asked what he should tell his people.

“You will tell them,” said Roosevelt, “that we shall win the war and the enemy will be punished for their crimes. Justice will prevail.”
- www.telegraph.co.uke

Previous to meeting with Roosevelt Karski had met with Felix Frankfurter on October, 1942.

Frankfurter: “Will you tell me about the Jews! We have had many reports. What happens to the Jews in your country?”

Karski informs Frankfurter of what he knew and what he had seen.

Read more »

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 be reading Austrian exile poets,
from collections by Herbert Kuhner
& poetry by Alter Brody, the American Jewish poet,
in German translations by Heinrich Eggerth and others

Rein literarisch: Jüdische Lyrik aus Österreich ist eine der interessantesten Lyrikanthologien, die ich kenne.
- Konstantin Kaiser, Literatur und Kritik

Daß tragische Töne in dieser Anthologie überwiegen, kann nicht verwundern. Mit Sicherheit ist in Österreich seit 1945 kein wichtigeres, kein erschütternderes literarisches Sammelwerk erschienen als dieses.
- Klara Köttner-Benigni, ORF; Die Gemeinde, Wien

Herbert Kuhner hat tatsächlich mit Erfolg subtile Abstraktionen mit kontrollierter Einbildungskraft von einer Sprache in die andere transportiert, und nicht ein Wort hat in der Prozedur Schaden erlitten. Inhalt und Übersetzung sind für Sprachunterricht in beide Richtungen geeignet.
- James Wilkie, Austria Today, Wien

Else Keren
Verloschene Funken

Verloschene Funken

aschentrüb
auf den entlegenen Schienen
streckenweit

Viele Züge fuhren diese Wege

Der entgleiste Wind
ruft
nach den toten Namen

Read more »

Herbert Kuhner

Father Gerhard Maria Wagner of Windischgarsten, Upper Austria, posits:
“They are God’s punishment for man’s sinful behavior.”

“Hurricane Katrina was a result of spiritual pollution. It is surely not an accident that all five of New Orleans’ abortion clinics, as well as nightclubs were destroyed. It’s not just any old city that has gone under, but a dream city with the best brothels and the most beautiful whores.”

Sounds like it was a great place. Sodom and Gomorrah must have been nothing in comparison. But I guess the Deity didn’t like it much. He’s always been a wet blanket.

Concerning the earthquake in Haiti, Father Wagner ventures: “God does not show us his cards.” And he goes on to say, “It is interesting that in Haiti, 90 percent are followers of voodoo cults.”

I’ve always wondered why such catastrophes occur. I’m grateful to Father Wagner for cluing me in.

In Feb 2009, Pope XVII appointed Wagner as auxiliary Bishop of Linz, but after a storm of protest, Wagner decided to stay in Windischgarsten. What a loss for Linz! - and for Austria.

Tony Blair to Iraq Inquiry, Jan. 30, 2010:
“Frankly, I would do it all again….Blair’s cockeyed logic: “If Saddam hadn’t been removed “today we would have a situation where Iraq was competing with Iran both in terms of nuclear capability and in respect of support of terrorist groups.”
 

Thumbs Down on Blair!

Opposition to Blair (as President of the E.U.) centers on his support for the war in Iraq. The war was mishandled and misbegotten - but if Blair had abandoned the United States, there would be little left of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance that was the rock on which the E.U. was built.
- Roger Cohen, “Giving Europe a Voice,” New York Times, Oct. 19, 2009

Bush, Cheney and Blair liberated Iraq and tens of thousands of Iraqis from life, as well as thousands of American and British soldiers. They invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, thus removing the buffer to Iran, making the United States and Israel more vulnerable. After pushing the Taliban back in Afghanistan, Bush & Co. let the country go to pot, increasing the danger to the Western World.

Blair did not simply go along with the invasion of Iraq. He passionately and eloquently made the case for it. He claimed that secular Saddam Hussein was in a tandem with sectarian Osama bin Laden, which was pure and unadulterated mendacity.

Those responsible for the senseless deaths of thousands belong in the dock in the Hague.
 

Buying from Blair

When Bush and Blair declared their aims concerning Iraq,
I wasn’t buying anything from Bush, but I lent my ear to Blair.
Blair’s eloquent casus belli was a rousing call
that brought King Harry’s Agincourt speech to mind.
I didn’t quite accept it, but I couldn’t quite reject it.
I was more than sceptical about the affiliation between bin Laden and Saddam
which Blair claimed was tightening.
But all-in-all, I could fathom the MPs voting for Blair’s resolution.
It would be hard not to.
Robin Cook’s resignation from the government got me thinking.
His actions look good in retrospect, and they look even better
after death silenced his voice.

At any rate, Blair threw me off track.
I sat on the fence.

I had Bush, Cheney and Condi figured out,
but I still didn’t have a handle on Blair.

He looks well meaning and sincere,
and he hasn’t tripped himself up with his own quotes.

Read more »

 ”Herr Strudl”:  “Anders als viele ihrer politischen korrekten Kollegen ham Österreichs UNO-Delegierten während der Rede vom Ahmedi-Nejad net den Saal verlassen. Recht hams. Weil diesmal war fast olles, was er gsagt hat, völlig richtig” .

- Kronen-Zeitung, 25. September 2009

The Austrian “Kronen-Zeitung” and Ahmadinejad

Here’s “Herr Strudl”, who gives streetwise comments in the largest-selling Austrian tabloid:

“Unlike their politically correct colleagues, Austria’s UNO delegates did not leave the hall during Ahmadinejad’s speech. Right they were! This time almost everything he said hit the mark.”
- Kronen-Zeitung, September 25, 2009

English translation: Herbert Kuhner

Herbert Kuhner
Negation in Six-Pack by the Republican Club

“Blasphemy, obscenity, charlatanism, sadistic excesses, orgies, the aesthetics of the cesspool are our moral means.  That includes rape and murder.  Murder is an integral part of sex.  - - - Otto Mühl, actionist

“Mühl’s specialty is minors and sex, and my speciality is the agonizing torture of animals….I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art.  Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”
- Hermann Nitsch, actionist

More Mühl: “Everything is worthy of presentation….That includes rape and murder.”  “Coitus, torture and the annihilation of man and beast is the only drama worth viewing…..Murder is an integral part of sex. House pets have to serve as surrogates. I intend to commit the perfect murder on a goat that will serve as a substitute for a woman.  In my next films humans will be slaughtered. Slaughtering humans must not continue to be a monopoly of the state. It will soon become an ethical necessity to rob banks and to shoot a random cripple down.”

“Otto Mühl is one of the most important artists of the post-war period.”  We are dealing with the artistic work of Otto Mühl … The exhibit is necessary in order to determine who Otto Mühl is.  On the other hand, these elements cannot be separated from each other.
- Peter Noever, MAK Director

Those who promote Mühl’s work are disseminating the spirit of Mühl. These two elements are indeed inseparable.

Profil magazine: “The former Minister of Culture Rudolf Scholten comments on the agitation concerning the major Otto Mühl exhibit in Vienna: ‘The “moral-attackers” look a bit ridiculous as they bang the same heads against the same wall decade after decade.’”
- Rudolf Scholten, MAK Board of Trustees

Mühl in Die Zeit, February 26, 20004:
“I’m not a child molester. That’s idiotic. They were all fully-developed girls.”
Die Zeit: “They were 12 and 13 years old.”
Mühl: “So what! I allegedly raped one of them. That certainly was not the case. I’m sorry that they are all so devastated. They are victims of the breaking up of the commune, rather than of free sexuality.”

Andreas Schlothauer concerning proceedings during the trial of Mühl on January 23, 1990: “After the moving descriptions of seven girls who were sexually abused by Mühl, a compilation of videos was shown after the courtroom had been cleared of spectators. In addition to violent actions by Mühl, his wife Claudia was shown forcing minors to engage in oral sex with her in front of an enthusiastic audience. ‘I have seen the films, and they cannot be compared to anything I’ve ever viewed,’ said Frau Jelinek, the judge (not related to Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek). ‘The boys did not want to do it; they were in tears. They received a permanent shock. One was her son, the son and his stepmother!’ (One of the boys was the son of Otto Mühl and Claudia’s sister).”

A woman who was abused as a child relates: Otto Mühl didn’t only maltreat us girls during the time of the Commune, the boys were also abused, beaten and humiliated. And it is impossible to assess the serious consequences this had for us. All of us were abused in both body and soul. No child left the commune without having been injured. He cannot be good to any child. No matter whether they were younger or older girls, or younger or older boys. Are these facts self-evident and have become socially acceptable?… Otto Mühl always sees small children as sex objects….And now he has the same power over many children in Portugal again. The same thing can happen again to those children!”

In June of 2005, three events of the Republican Club, New Austria were held in conjunction with the Charim Gallery in Vienna, which is the control center for Otto Mühl and actionist art in Austria.

Those who promote Mühl’s work are disseminating the spirit of Mühl. These two elements are inseparable.

I wrote Doron Rabinovici, Club Board Member, suggesting that I present a program, including a discussion, on the subject of Art and Violence. On Feb. 13, 2006, I received the following answer: “I will present your program suggestion to other board members, but I for one, oppose it. I don’t find the topic relevant. It doesn’t fit in our discussion series. There is no reason for us to do it. It doesn’t fit into the dramaturgy of our events. We favor a debate on a topical and controversial subject that reflects the interests of our members.”

Read more »