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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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David Mamet Moves to the Right

Herbert Kuhner

Why is David Mamet embracing the Reactionary Right? It’s simple. The RR didn’t like Jews much in the old days. But now the RR is supporting Israel against the Palestinians with no holds barred.

The “Democracy Now” crowd, like Vanessa Redgrave and her ilk, have two bogeymen, the United States and Israel. Now I’m not saying that all is well in those two nations. Hell no! There is a long register of sins, but they don’t happen to be the consistently most rotten villains on the planet. This too is the no-holds-barred syndrome.

The Liberal faction more or less tries for an even-handed approach. It is possible to be critical of the settlement policy without praying for a Sodom-and-Gomorra solution for Israel.

Mamet, like the late Ron Silver has made a complete about face. The reason is simple. Now the Right is gung-ho for Israel. No shilly-shallying. The Right does not fathom shading of any kind. Who needs shadings when the Deity is on your side?

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James Carville and Mary Matalin at Home

Herbert Kuhner

James Carville is as Liberal as they come. Mary Matalin is Conservative from the get-go.
They have a happy marriage.

Carville on Sarah Palin, former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska:
“I mean she was touted experience as mayor of this town in Alaska.
This is a picture of the city hall. It looks like a bait shop in South Louisiana.”
(That’s how James describes the darling of the Right.)

Matalin on Rush Limbaugh: “I don’t just respect Rush. I revere Rush.”
That’s how Mary gushes over Rush the icon of the Right.
Rush in action: “Linda Trip - What a beautiful heroine!!!
Who is a better role model ‘for the children’ of America?…
I’m telling my sons to imitate her.”
(Tripp hid a mike when Monica confided in her
and passed the recording on
to the Republican adulterers trying to bring Bill down.)

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Art and Ritual Violence

Herbert Kuhner

Hermann Nitsch: “I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability would be on another level….Thus, art can consist of a crime.” Killing was and is beyond all moral judgments.”

Here is a segment of the Partitur of “The Orgies Mystery Theater”: “A 7-year old boy is nailed to the wall as if crucified. His head is beaten and shattered with rectangular stones, his bloody brains come out. The bloody brain is rinsed and washed with lukewarm sugar-water.”

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Kunst und Körperlichkeit

Herbert Kuhner

Hermann Nitsch: „Ich könnte mir vorstellen, daß ein Mord Bestandteil eines Kunstwerks ist, daß aber jetzt eine andere Verantwortungsebene an den Mörder herantritt (…) Also: Kunst kann auch ein Verbrechen sein, sagen wir so. Das Töten war und ist außerhalb des ethischen Urteils.”

Hier ein Zitat aus der Nitsch Partitur: „Ein 7-jähriger Knabe wird wie gekreuzigt an die Wand genagelt. Sein Kopf wird mit quadratischen Steinen zerschlagen und zerschmettert, blutiges Gehirn tritt aus. Das blutige Hirn wird mit lauem Zuckerwasser gewaschen und gespült.”

„Wer keine Kenntnis von der Bedeutung des Rituals und der Körperlichkeit in der Kunst hat und auch nicht den Willen, etwas davon verstehen zu wollen, für den ist auch die Verwendung religiöser Gegenstände nicht mehr als Sudelei und die willentliche Verletzung religiöser Gefühle.”
- Dr. Rudolf Scholten, Kunstminister a.D.

Mehr aus der Partitur: „…leichen von zweijährigen, einjährigen und neugeborenen kindern werden in den raum gebracht, die haare werden von den köpfen der kinderleichen gerissen, die lippen und die geschlechtsteile der toten kinder werden zerfleischt. Die brustkörbe der kleinen leichen werden geöffnet, die blutig-feuchten gedärme werden herausgerissen, fleischstücke werden von den toten kindern gerisssen. hände und füße werden aus ihren gelenken gerissen. Leichenteile der toten kinder werden im raum herumgeworfen….”

Hier „Körperlichkeit”: „die nackte leiche eines neunjährigen mädchens wird auf eine kirchenbank gelegt; das geschlechtsteil des mädchens wird aufgeklafft; mit einer silbersonde wird mehrmals tief hineingestochen; das geschlechtsteil wird mit einem skalpell zerfleischt; zuckerwasser wird auf die blutige wunde geschüttet; nummer O saugt und schleckt das gezuckerte blut von dem zerfleischten geschlechtsteil.”

Nitsch: „Ich will meiner Arbeit kein humanes Korsette mehr anlegen.”

„Würde ihre Tochter nackt als elfjähriges Mädchen auf einer Bühne stehen, ihr Schädel kahlgeschoren und unter der Anleitung des Herrn Nitsch in ihren Geschlechtsteilen herumgebohrt werden’ möchte sie wissen, ob Sie dann noch von ‚Freiheit der Kunst’ sprechen.”
- Lore Jarosch, Autorin

„Mühl ist spezialisiert auf Minderjährige und Sex und ich bin spezialisiert auf qualvolles Martern von Viechern.”
- Hermann Nitsch

„Nitsch ist ein Sadist, ein geltungssüchtiger, autistischer Psychopathensäufer, er ist ganz narzisstisch, ein zu kurz gekommenes Muttersöhnchen. Rainer ist ein echter Schläger und Sadist. Nitsch quält dafür Leute bei seinen Aktionen, sie frieren immer. Er richtet das so ein. Ich hätte gern gewußt, wie viele da krank geworden sind, wie viele Lungenentzündung gehabt haben und wie viele gestorben sind”.
- Otto Mühl

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Boys Will Be Boys

Yes, boys will be boys,
and having a lady give her consent
is just half the fun.These days
muckraking journals and the fuzz
are party poopers.
who lay in wait for boys
who sow their oats
in the good old-fashioned way.

  •  Bill and Arnie Call a Spade a Spade

Bill looked me and a few other people square in the eye, squinting his eyes,
and said: “I want you to listen to me - I’m going to say this again -
I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky.”

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Goodbye Osama

  • The Most Beautiful Mass-Murderer

Our Twentieth Century mass murderers were the most effective in the history of mankind. They had no compunctions about erasing humans from our planet. Our contemporary variety has no fear of being called to account on Judgment Day. According to them, God’s bidding is to engage the bloodletting.

The ugliest villain of all time was, of course, Adolf Hitler. Short, stocky and round-shouldered, his hair neatly plastered down, the unruly cowlick coming loose at his bellicose gestures and strands of hair poking up on the back of his head. Adolf , bursting with hoarse hatred, certainly takes the cake. He was the one who, among other things, specifically targeted children.

Another plug-ugly was Mussolini. He may have been somewhat less of a villain, but after the tide turned and Adolf took over in Italy. his villainy matched that of his friend.

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A Designer’s Love for Hitler

“… I love Hitler, and people like you would be dead today. Your mothers, your forefathers, would be … gassed and … dead.”
- John Galliano, Dior’s former fashion designer

Hitler hated Jews but he did not love gays!

  • Being Gay in the Third Reich

Herbert Kuhner

I’ve quipped “they don’t bother me if they don’t bother me” and “chacun à son trou.” I’ve always been a wise guy who couldn’t resist a pun.

When Charles Trenet died, I bawled. He was a marvelous songwriter-composer-singer poet and the last of the great artists who represented the Thirties. What would my life have been like without Charles Trenet or Noel Coward, and all the other writers, artists and musicians who enriched it? Their inclinations were their inclinations and their business was their business. Every man and woman has a right to choose his or her life style. I use the word “choose” but I don’t know if it’s always a matter of choice. Whatever the case, I say “live and let live!” It’s nobody’s business, and it’s not the business of the state. It is the business of the state to protect the rights of the individual. And to provide equal rights and opportunities for all.

George W. Bush and Co. led a crusade against homosexuality, and they clobbered gays, no matter what. Even if it meant that more America soldiers in Iraq had die.

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