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Helnwein and the Nazi judge
Many people assume that since Scientology was arbitrarily declared to be a
religion by the IRS in 1993, that the 1994 attacks on Germany by
Scientology were a result of Scientology's increasing self-confidence dur
to becoming a bona fide U.S. religion.
However, the Scientology Nazi attacks on Germany started many years
earlier. Hubbard was already predisposed to justifying his illegal
actions by outward accusations against (for him, real) Nazis. It appears
that Helnwein is the one person who can be credited most with putting that
paranoid concept into actual deed. So what harm could arise from
Scientology operating on the principle that it is protecting the world
from Nazis?
Two other organizations also operated on that principle at some point in
time. Their methods also included staged arrests and false imprisonment
of dissenters: the secret police of the Communist Part of the former
Soviet Union, and the secret police of the former East German Ministry of
Security. Sufficient comparison, of course, is not possible with the 489
pages of documentation in Peter Reichelt's book and thus has not been
made. However, it might be time to start thinking along those lines, as
Scientology has built up many defenses to avoid detection over the years.
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Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 404
The OSA Headquarters in Hollywood
Since April 20, 1991, in the former Hollywood Guaranty Insurance building,
in close proximity to porno theaters and street prostitution, right on the
ground floor at the feet of management, a museum of a special kind has
been established, "The Ron Hubbard Life Museum Show," a life's
retrospective on "Superman Hubbard's Adventures" and his "prominent
accomplishments" for humanity. If Baron Munchausen had known of Hubbard's
adventures, he would have been green with envy.
According to what the museum receptionist said in August 1996, Gottfried
Helnwein also paid his respects to his lord and master, Hubbard, with a
visit of insufferable glorification: "Oh, yes, Mr. Helnwein and his wife
have been here to visit the show. They also have been here several times
up on the headquarters floors to visit Mr. Weiland, Mr. Rinder and other
representatives of the church, sometimes together with his beautiful
wife," reported the reception woman proudly. Helnwein is a known name in
headquarters and probably even more so by "reception," since she looks
everyday at the over-sized, polished stone slab directly in front of her
desk next to the entrance of the hall on which Gottfried Helnwein, as one
of only 20 Scientologists, what an honor for him, is immortalized until
further notice with a statement of praise for the great master.
Scientology leader David Miscavige, Hubbard's heir, had this giant slab of
honor put up, visible to all visitors in the entrance area for Master
Hubbard, who "dropped his body" and died a worldly death in 1986.
Set off conspicuously on polished stone, Gottfried Helnwein's misplaced
words of praise for Hubbard beam in the brightest light, as do those of
his friends from "old" Viennese days past in the
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"Center for Art and Communication," Julia Migenes and Chick Corea.
Helnwein's quote with his professional designation underneath of "Award
Winning Fine Artist", consisted of a short statement;
"MANKIND NEVER HAD A TRUER FRIEND."
Celebrity Center International in Hollywood
A couple of streets up, at 5930 Franklin Avenue, also in Hollywood and can
be reached in no more than five minutes by car, there is a mysterious
castle-like fortress defended by tall, dark, spear-shaped pikes, the
"Manor Hotel": according to Scientology's promotional statements "The
ideal environment to go clear." In this hotel, managed exclusively by and
for Scientologists, which even has its own three-star Scientology
restaurant, there also resides the worldwide headquarters of the
"Celebrity Center International - Church of Scientology," to which all
famous and not-so famous Scientology artists as well as other illustrious
Scientologists belong: that is why it is called Celebrity Center
International. On August 3, 1996 this center celebrated its 27th
"birthday" with an evening gala in the hotel garden. The high point of the
evening was a star performance by rock musician Edgar Winter, also a
Scientologist for many years, and his band. Regularly vacationing among
their own kind under palm trees by the pool, especially at the end of the
1980s and the beginning of the '90s, Gottfried Helnwein and his wife,
Renate, bag and baggage, were feeling well here in this environment, and,
above all, were protected and shielded from the attacks upon his character
which got ever more vehement in far, distant Germany from 1992 onward.
Here both of them, without being perceived or recognized from outside,
could devote themselves at their own pace to their Scientology studies,
make new contacts, meet like-minded long-term friends and develop new art
projects or look up other stars in Los Angeles whom Gottfried Helnwein
could integrate into existing projects, such as "Idols of the 20th
Century" or "Faces." A close artistic relationship occurred in this way
with Michael Jackson. One thing that certainly played a role in this
connection was that Jackson's current wife at the time, Lisa Marie
Presley, was and is a fervent Scientology adherent, as are the Helnweins,
and, sometimes with her mother, often met with Helnwein in Los Angeles.
The "Manor Hotel" in Hollywood was the ideal location and starting point
for that.
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Gottfried Helnwein lived in the Manor Hotel - June 1990
(from: "Celebrity" 286, 1995 CSCCI)
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G O T T F R I E D H E L N W E I N
To
Burgbrohl, 18.5.90
You may remember my letter from the the 9th of April 90 (see
next page) which Mr. Reichelt brought to your office in L.A..
I think he also gave you some art books and posters of my
husbands work.
It would be great if we can meet you when we are in L.A.. We
arrive in L.A. at the 28th of May and we will stay until 6th
or 7th of June.
1st of June we will visit Michael Jackson, all the other days
are still open.
Could you please be so kind and let me know by Fax, if this
works out?
Our Fax# in Germany 011-49-2636-1483
We will stay in L.A. in the Manor Hotel phone 9603200
5930 Franklin Ave fax 9603232
Hooywood, CA 90028
It would be great if you could let us know in advance, that
we can plan on the time.
If you have any question about the photosession of the
artproject "Faces" let me know.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Renate Helnwein
[scan of letter in English]
Consultant Reichelt set up a meeting with Quincy Jones. The Helnweins were
"residing" in the Scientology Manor Hotel in Los Angeles and were available
there for the world star.
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G O T T F R I E DH E L N W E I N
28.5.90
Dear Peter,
Please send all data on
Manor Hotel
Fax 213-9603232
greetings
Eva
[scan of hand-written letter in German]
Helnwein kept consultant Reichelt up to date as to his actual place of
residence while on the move.
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Scientology Celebrities love the "Manor" Hotel
(from: "Celebrity" 295, 1996 CSCCI)
The two actors John Travolta and Tom Cruise may well be the most
well-known adherents and walking billboards of Scientology; they are still
helping Scientology USA in their unbroken popularity to increase their
successes, i.e., $millions worth of new memberships, courses, etc.
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The Helnwein Interview in "Celebrity" Scientology magazine - 1989
The latest edition of the official member magazine of the "Celebrity
Center International Los Angeles" - "Celebrity" - minor issue 295 - August
1996, is graced by a full-page portrait on the cover of John Travolta with
the announcement of a multi-page interview with him in that edition:
"Interview with 'Clear' and Star of his new film 'Phenomenon' - John
Travolta." Every edition of this magazine, published at short intervals,
sometimes several times a month in the English language, contains a very
detailed exclusive interview with a high-ranking Scientology celebrity.
"Celebrity" is a typical propaganda sheet to attract people into
Scientology with famous names in the USA and elsewhere. It is available
free in almost all Scientology Orgs worldwide. It is regarded as the
highest honor among Scientologists to have your own, particularly detailed
interview in it, and above all, to have your picture appear in color on
the magazine's cover. This extraordinary honor has been bestowed in the 27
years since its founding upon 230 Scientologists worldwide, Gottfried
Helnwein from Germany among them. By doing that he has become a walking
advertisement for Scientology in Germany, a sort of John Travolta
leadership figure. Since it is almost always customary for U.S. Americans
to grace the cover of "Celebrity," with the display of his portrait on the
cover of edition Nr. 225, Minor Issue, in Summer 1989, Helnwein broke
through the dominance of American Scientology stars like Tom Cruise and
John Travolta. Helnwein was the new "Number 1," the Scientology painter,
the new star in his own ranks, pity that it the whole thing was only a
make-believe world which, negative for Helnwein, does not correspond to
reality and is only of use exclusively within the organization.
Certainly he was also being honored by this for his more than 25 years of
true and cost-intensive membership in Scientology. Scientology spared
neither cost nor effort to put Helnwein into the best fitting, best
possible light. Dick Zimmerman, as the photographer who took the Helnwein
cover portrait along with the other snapshots of him along with his son,
Ali, is himself a long-term member and is responsible for celebrity
photographs inside the organization.
Helnwein stands casually grinning at the observer from the cover of
"Celebrity" magazine in front of a selection of the most famous posters
he made, including that of James Dean, according to him the most sold
poster in the world, with
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circulation of 250,000 copies and sales of 15 million DM, and one of
Marilyn Monroe. On the inside of the issue, the interview begins on page
8, the upper half of the first page is filled with a picture of his son,
Ali, sitting together with his father on the floor among various Helnwein
posters. Both are smiling happily and full of pride for the camera of star
photographer Dick Zimmerman. It may well be one of the few photos which
shows Helnwein smiling for once.
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Gottfried and his son Ali Helnwein in "Celebrity" Scientology magazine
(from: "Celebrity" 225, 1989 CSCCI)
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The "Celebrity" article began with an editorialized, biographical
introduction:
"Gottfried Helnwein was born in Vienna. In 1969 he decided to become an
artist. He registered for Professor Hausner's master class at the
University of Fine Arts. By 1970 he had already gotten his first award for
his outstanding pictures, although he had only been drawing for a little
more than a year.
In 1973 Gottfried became a 'Scientologist.' Although he was already a
successful painter, Scientology drove his career as a painter to new
heights, and a short time later he was just as well known in Europe as
Norman Rockwell in the USA. His pictures appeared on the covers of many
famous magazines in Germany, Austria, France and many other countries. The
quality of his pictures could soon also be admired on American magazine
covers like Omni, Esquire, Time and Rolling Stone, especially with
portraits of John Belushi, Clint Eastwood and Elvis Presley. In 1982
Gottfried prepared his famous self-portrait. This picture quickly became
one of the most-published title pictures of magazine history and also
appeared on the record cover of the "Blackout" LP by the German hard rock
band "Scorpions," which sold over three million copies worldwide. In 1983,
Gottfried was chosen in Germany as one of the "people of the year,"
together with Jane Fonda and Joan Collins, an art exhibition by him
attracted over 100,000 visitors. He took photos and made portraits of
well-known personalities which included Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Nikki
Lauda and Muhammed Ali.... Gottfried is currently living in a magnificent
castle in Germany together with his wife and his four children.
"OT 5" Gottfried Helnwein - 1989
Gottfried Helnwein is an Operating Thetan V (OT V) and is taking courses
of the 'Academy Levels' (Auditor course up to Class IV) at the Celebrity
Center in Duesseldorf (as of 1989)."
This fact escaped him only two and a half years later, thanks to a "loss
of memory" which suddenly cropped up. In October 1992 he used a summary
procedure to get a court order in an attempt to stop "Prinz" Duesseldorf
city magazine from describing him as an "Operating Thetan" of the
Scientology Organization. He submitted the following sworn affirmation,
dated October 9, 1992 to the court as enclosure 4: In recognition of the
meaning of a sworn affirmation and the penalty of a false,
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even a negligently false affirmation, I hereby affirm and submit to the
court under oath: I AM NOT AN OPERATING THETAN, WHATEVER THAT MAY MEAN. -
signed Gottfried Helnwein.
Now that the original text of his Scientology interview with "Celebrity"
has been made available in this book and Helnwein has been described as
Operating Thetan Level V by the highly official membership magazine, this
leaves only one conclusion:
Gottfried Helnwein lied to the court and submitted a false sworn
affirmation to his own advantage at the time. "Prinz" lost the legal
proceedings exactly for that reason. It was not to remain his only false
affirmation.
In 1995 the "Handbook of the Scientology Religion" itself gives answers to
the most asked questions by the media. In it, under the keyword "Operating
Thetan or OT" is written: "'OT' describes a spiritual being or a Thetan
who is in the position to operate in complete awareness, with full memory
recall and with complete abilities independently of the physical universe.
This is a goal which people have wanted to obtain for thousands of years.
The fundamental levels of Scientology orients a person to his spiritual
existence and immortality. In this means it helps free him from
complications in his personal relations and in the solving of everyday
problems, so that he can direct his attention to higher aspects of his
being. On the level of Operating Thetan one goes about with his
immortality as a spiritual being. As with any other spiritual level of
Scientology, the state of OT is reached by traversing a series of
gradually increasing steps. The sequence is laid out exactly and deviating
from them, from experience, leads nowhere. Therefore the person must first
manage the simpler steps before he can dedicate himself to the higher
steps of salvation.
At the OT level, Scientologists study the very advanced materials from L.
Ron Hubbard's research. According to those who have attained OT, there are
no words to express the degree of spiritual consciousness."
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It is provable that by 1989, Gottfried Helnwein had reached OT Level V,
and his wife Renate OT Level VIII. High-ranking Scientology former member
Gunther Traeger, was was trained in Duesseldorf Celebrity Center with
Helnwein, was a member of the organization for twenty years before he
finally left in 1992. In "Spiegel" magazine, volume 10 / 1993 of 1993, he
gave a surprisingly frank interview about his knowledge and his
experiences.
"Spiegel": "You had reached one of the highest OT levels, you were an
Operating Thetan Level V. One can allegedly walk through a wall of fire at
that point."
Traeger: "Wall of Fire is meant symbolically. One is confronted with hot
emotional data. I had already known that people had rather gone aground.
"Spiegel": "How many Germans like you have reached the OT V grade of
enlightenment?"
Traeger: "Maybe 100. About 50 may be on the highest level, OT VIII - ..."
"Spiegel": "What do they have special?"
Traeger: "A good question, I would like to know that, too. OT VIII
allegedly offers so little new that you ask yourself why you have given
money for it at all."
"Spiegel": "How much must one expend to attain the highest ordination?"
Traeger: "300,000 DM and more has already been paid, and appeals for
donations which bring it up to six figures are no rarity."
It becomes overly clear from Traeger's statements that Gottfried and
Renate Helnwein are top Scientologists in Germany with the highest degree
of training and are highly thought of with the organization, especially in
the USA; no wonder that the two of them have made an estimated 1.4 million
DM in "donations" to various organization departments since 1972 (!).
But back to the year 1989. "Celebrity" magazine continued: "This month
Gottfried describes for our readers why he decided to be an artist and in
what manner the Scientology teachings have helped to assure his success
even today, thereby surviving as an artist in difficult times."
Then began the most detailed and, above all, the most honest interview
that Gottfried Helnwein had given to date since the "College" interview in
1975,
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14 years earlier about his decades-long intensive relationship to
Scientology, noting once again, in a full edition of a Scientology
membership magazine distributed worldwide. The publication of this
interview is, without doubt, the most momentous occasion of his entire
life. In it he described many details of his training as a Scientologist,
what he has to thank these "teachings" for, advertises intensively for new
members, and praises Scientology as the "non plus ultra," as necessary
everyday as bread and water. Then, only two years later, in a dramatic,
sudden turnaround starting in 1992, he mimed a poor, innocent, persecuted
victim of the media in various unprecedented media campaigns, who, in his
own words, "shat on Scientology," and did not even know what an "Operating
Thetan," a "Patron" or even an "auditor" were. Now he said he was not
even a Scientologist. Helnwein: "No, I was never any of that," his words
ran in spring 1996; from now on no one will believe him. By that he has
conveyed the lie of his life. What kind of string-pulling act is going on
in his life, does he just want to outlive the Germany art business in
which Scientologists are boycotted more and more, or is there actually
more to it?
It was not just this interview, published for the first time here in its
German translation, by which his later, multifarious, subtle lies and
hair-splitting in questions of his Scientology involvement and past were
finally discovered by German agencies and the media. It was proven with
what has already been written here, along with what is to follow, just
with other means. His own words are not an index [of reality]; they are
proof of his guilt. Gottfried Helnwein has been a member of Scientology
for decades. A fervent defender of the ideology of his master, L. Ron
Hubbard. Helnwein is the role model of a successful Scientologist. Even
today he is the European way sign for various recruitment campaigns in the
USA, with him as the fortunate top Scientologist. In doing that, he is
playing a strategically important role in the plans of the highest
Scientology management in Los Angeles. How long will he be able to play
this role there? Helnwein has made a confession according to all the rules
of the legal profession with his testimonies. A district attorney would be
luminous with joy to have the proof presented here in preparation of a
lawsuit. At the point of the interview, he already had 18 years of
intensive Scientology schooling, i.e., brainwashing, behind him, he had
success worldwide, and he was not aware of what
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was to begin two years later, starting in 1992, in Germany - the "outing"
of Scientologists in the media and their gradual boycott by the state,
with the consequence of a quasi-professional ban today (1997), especially
for Scientology artists, since they are particularly dependent upon public
institutions like museums, and also subsidies.
"OT 5" Helnwein gave the Scientology Organization a long interview
(from: "Celebrity" 225, 1989 CSCCI)
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The content of the interview refuted in all detail any of his later
disparate but adventurous efforts to deny the close connections he had
with Scientology for the major portion of his life by scandalous schemes,
such as lying in different courts or to the public with "sworn
affirmations," even going so far as to deliberately give various false
assurances under oath, such as he did not even know what an "auditor" or
an "Operating Thetan" were. How schizophrenic must a person be to simply
delete the memory of 20 years of his life? That still does not justify his
criminal behavior in various German courts by giving false testimony in
cases initiated by himself against "critics" to obtain an outcome
favorable to himself. Insofar as this behavior has led to harm to others,
this form of untruth is to be strongly condemned.
The very first question in "Celebrity Interview of the Month" from summer
1989 refers to the beginning of his career "in Scientology."
The Interview in "Celebrity" magazine
Celebrity: How did you get interested in the Scientology religion?
Gottfried Helnwein (GH): In 1973, I heard some other artists talking about
it in Vienna. Scientology was the most interesting thing I had ever heard
of, so myself and another artist friend of mine went to Munich, Germany,
where we did the Communications Course. In just four days of studying the
data on communication, my whole life changed completely. The problems that
I had previously, disappeared. From Scientology, I realized that I was
cause over the events of my life. That viewpoint is not generally held in
this society. People think they are the effect of life.
After the Communications Course, I went back to Vienna with my new
viewpoint and data about life and was eager to run into people and
situations I used to hate. I sought out situations I couldn't confront
before to test out my new abilities and skills. I met with people I didn't
like and put myself into many uncomfortable situations. Nothing was a
problem any more. Scientology data worked....
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Celebrity: Did Scientology help you improve your art?
GH: Scientology helped me understand what I was actually doing with my
art. Before that, I just painted -- but at effect. With Scientology I
finally understood why people would react to my art, why they would want
to talk to me as if they knew me or as if I knew them, why some people got
angry, why many people would get this enormous urge to seek me out and
communicate to me -- just by looking at my paintings. Before, I didn't
understand and I was very interested to find out why. I had read Freud and
many of the Far East philosophers because I was so interested. But I could
never get good answers. Sometimes I did, but they were just little
answers, nothing major.
But from the first sentence of Scientology and every sentence since then,
it has all made sense. The thing that I really liked about Scientology was
that everything you learned could be applied to life.
All the things I wanted handled personally got handled with Scientology.
All the answers I had ever sought out were fully answered in Scientology.
It really is amazing.
I operated with very high knowingness even before Scientology. But without
it I would have been in big trouble -- and I actually was. To me no one in
this world is in as much danger as the artist is. Because when you step
out and communicate something you become visible. And if you create a big
effect with music or painting, etc., then you are in trouble because there
are certain people in this world who don't want that and they will do
anything to suppress it. When you think of all the young artists who died
of drugs or were killed: Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Brian Jones, then you
can see what I mean. I think artists need Scientology to survive. It can
also improve their art, but they really don't need it for that as much as
they need the information contained in the subject to survive in the
world.
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Normally you will find that a good artist is not very aberrated on the
subject of communication. This is a miracle. When you look at Van Gogh for
instance, he was in more trouble personally than you could imagine, in all
areas of his life. And he didn't know what was wrong. And although his
entire life was completely messed up, the one thing that was untouched was
his ability to create. And that's interesting. Even when a good artist is
a bit insane, is in trouble or his life is falling apart, his ability to
create is still there. And I find that's incredible when you really look
at it.
So, there is an example of a great artist who had no technology to survive
personally, although his art did. His communication, his art did survive
-- he didn't.
So I don't think that good artists need Scientology to create good art,
really. Sometimes that may be. But to survive as a human being, and to
hold a position in space, is where Scientology comes in.
Mozart is another example. What huge works of art he produced. And he
could have created more if he had lived longer. When I first began
studying Scientology, I realized that if Mozart and all these other
artists would have had this data - just the basic data in Scientology - we
would have so many more paintings and great works of theirs, because they
personally would have survived to create it.
I think that Scientology training is the best, as it really allows you to
be cause over your entire life. You get vital tools and you can use them.
You get data which allows you to handle anything in life. [...]
Celebrity: You are getting services at Celebrity Centre Dusseldorf in
Germany. What is that like?
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GH: Celebrity Centre is just the best. The Executive Director, Adelheid,
creates a very safe environment for the people there. I love being there,
and my service from Adelheid and the other staff has been really great.
Celebrity Centre is a very important place for artists to get Scientology
services. And, Scientology services are vital to their survival.
Celebrity: Anything else you would like to say?
GH: [...] Another thing for other artists: Training is the most fantastic
thing. Every artist and every person needs to get trained.
Celebrity: Thank you very much."
That was in 1989!
Helnwein in Berlin
Berlin, the same year. In March 1989, Helnwein once more conducted a
"Promotion Tour" for Scientology on his way to the local SC organization
in Berlin to hold an exhibit/sale of his latest pictures in rooms provided
by them. Helnwein was at the revival, this time with his works of art
hanging on the fishhooks of recruitment. This operation, however, did not
remain hidden from an alert reporter in TAZ, a Berlin newspaper. In the
article "Forks in your Eyes" of March 15, 1989, writer "Doro" described
Helnwein's practical implementation of the theoretical recruitment
potential of a Scientology artist addressed in the "Celebrity" interview.
"They are right at the entrance. The body guards of the controversial
psycho-religion. 10 DM permits entrance of those who look like they came
for the art ... to the special event: Gottfried Helnwein ... honored the
business rooms of the Scientology Church in Berlin-Friedenau with his
presence on Sunday evening ... Subsequent to Helnwein's appearance in the
Scientology Church, more gentle manipulation takes place. As if it were
the usual thing here, people are asked to look up at over-sized black and
white photographs of extraordinary people, ranging from Michael Jackson to
Peter Alexander ... One cannot call this an exhibition, it is much more a
consolidated sales effort for the purpose of recruiting new members. And
they came in droves, attracted like moths to a light, in order to get
their fill of Helnwein after a staged interview with the Scientology
female director. ... By his own statement, Helnwein has been a
Scientologist since 1972 because the
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Scientology Church's drug withdrawal program (Narconon) convinced him ...
But Helnwein acts like he does not believe in the Scientology Church as an
enterprising business, not even in the millions embezzled by since
deceased founder Hubbard. ..."
He still acts that way, in April 1997!
Helnwein's Scientology Membership Application - 1987
Even in October 1996, Helnwein was unconcernedly spreading his lies in
public in spite of overwhelming proof of the opposite coming from all
directions. Once again he got support from his home town of Vienna. His
friend, "NEWS" journalist Georg Kindel, repeatedly gave him the chance to
not only drag his adopted homeland of Germany across the coals, but also
to falsely deny his SC membership again. This time, however, Kindel
remonstrated him with evidence that clearly showed the opposite.
"NEWS," the Viennese news magazine, reported a sensational event in its
41/96 edition under the title of "THE GURU? - Painter Gottfried Helnwein."
It contained Helnwein's membership application for Scientology! It was
supposed to mean that Gottfried Helnwein had been a "member of
Scientology" in 1987. The article contained a facsimile of an original
"Application for membership into the International Association of
Scientologists (IAS)," signed by Helnwein. It was dated March 14, 1987.
The Helnwein couple were accepted into the IAS Scientology Organization in
England, membership numbers 38764 and 38765.
The 8 Million Members - Lie
That is also evidence that the number of Hubbard adherents worldwide in
1987 was not much higher than 40,000 (!); by 1997, a total of not more
than 70,000 membership numbers had been given out - not, as continues to
be falsely propagated by its management, 8 million members worldwide.
Another incredible exaggeration for propaganda purposes!
Helnwein in the Viennese "NEWS" - October 1996
"NEWS", continued: "In order to conquer the globe, at last, with his
pictures, Helnwein started a two year retrospective tour around the world.
400 of his best exhibition pieces were to be displayed in Sapporo and
Tokyo for six months, after that the exhibition was to go to the state
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 427
museums in St. Petersburg, to Finnland, Germany, San Francisco and, in
fall '97, to the Viennese art building. The gutter press, however, beat
the master over the head with his alleged membership in Scientology. The
situation for the painter has become especially threatening at his
residence in Germany. ... NEWS spoke with the artist:
NEWS: Are you a Scientologist? Helnwein: No. I took several courses in the
'70s and the early '80s and read books about it. ... NEWS: "Forbes" wrote
that you had founded Scientology Austria. ... Helnwein: These journalists
are scum. I have demanded they sign an order to desist. ... NEWS: There
exists a lifetime Scientology membership application which you have signed
on 14 March 1987. Helnwein: That is a counterfeit. I would have to know
if I had signed something like that. NEWS: You did not offer to donate the
proceeds of a total of 450 of your "Marilyn Monroe" lithos to support
Scientology in 1992 either? Helnwein: That is a bare-faced lie. If
someone from Scientology said that, he's nuts. NEWS: Scientology has even
advertised using your name. Helnwein: They have used my picture and my
name without my permission and without my volition three or four times. I
had my lawyer tell them that and he received a signed notice of intention
to cease and desist. ... NEWS: You have been described as a Scientology
leader, as an "Auditor IV" ... Helnwein: That is crazy. I took courses
where you are automatically made a temporary member. But today I do not
belong to any association. I was never an auditor in my life. That
insanity was dished out by a mentally ill woman from Saarland. ... I
recommended that she get psychiatric help. ... The Germans need the witch
hunt phenomenon. That is a German campaign which originates primarily from
the Evangelical church. They have been attempting psycho-terrorism for
years. In Stuttgart they have a kind of secret service where they give out
millions to spy on people all across the country. NEWS: Are you banned in
Germany? Helnwein: When I acquired the castle in Burgbrohl in 1986 and
began to restore it, a general missionary of the Evangelical church showed
up and told the minister and everybody in town that I was secretly a sect
leader and the studio was just a front. I was said to have set it up to
lure in young people and destroy them with brainwashing. The people in the
area flew into a panic and did not allow their children to visit anymore.
At some point they then made the whole country hysterical.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 428
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PRO
The inventor of the "Jewish Argument"
(from: "NEWS" 4/97, p. 62, 1997 Vienna)
NEWS: Are you suffering from a modern Inquisition? Helnwein: That is
exactly it. The old witch hunt has reappeared in a new form. They tortured
and burned hundreds of thousands of people in Germany, they also did it
with the Jews. ... Then the Germans became world leaders again. Now they
are fighting the Scientologists. ... Germany is the only country in the
world which could come up with the idea to annihilate everything which is
not worthy of living, in their opinion, and to turn it into soap. ...
GERMANY IS AN EVIL COUNTRY, AN INTOLERANT LAND OF FANATICS. Over there is
Austria, far more Catholic, therefore more lustful, sensuous, more
perverse ... That is a mass psychosis, a mass delusion, what is going on
there. ... I am leaving Germany. I have already brought my children into
safety.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 431
I am, thank God, completely independent of the country. I have just been
looking for a studio in Santa Monica, from now on I will work in Los
Angeles, even if I still go back to my castle sometimes."
That was Helnwein's last interview as of today, a fanatical attempt to
divert attention from his own misdeeds and lay all blame exclusively on
others, true to the Hubbard directive that "a Scientologist is infallible
and always seeks out the mistakes in others."
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Helnwein and the "Nazi" Judge - continued
August 1996 - Burgbrohl seven years later. Seven weeks have past since the
three judges of the 16th Civil Senate of the Superior State Court in
Frankfurt am Main legally recognized on June 20, 1996, case number 16 U
163 / 95 under Judge Chairman Baumecker and Judges Dr. Deppert and Janzen:
Helnwein is a Scientologist and an "auditor IV clergyman," after he has
been publicly denying and bitterly contesting that over and over for half
a decade, including in a dozen court proceedings against many of his
public "critics."
The ARD "Report" broadcast of February 3, 1997
The ARD political magazine, "Report," was dealing with the Helnwein case
for the third time in eight months.
"Scientology is everywhere: the controversy about the dangerous
psycho-sect. Real estate business in the best spots in Stuttgart. This
was formerly a Scientology Center in Baden-Wuerttemberg's state capitol.
For the first time we will get a look behind the scenery. Our guide is
Jeanette Schweitzer, a former Scientologist. She shows us the so-called
auditing chambers in the attic.
Jeanette Schweitzer: 'Here is where people bared their souls, that means
that anybody who got this auditing, regardless of which kind, there is
even special penalty auditing, would end up baring his soul. There are
questions in the penalty auditing, for example, which asked about one's
personal life. What people have you slept with, have you slept with a
colored person, do you own a firearm, have you committed criminal acts?
These questions are re-phrased over and over again until one ends up
answering them. But there are also other interrogation techniques by which
the person will bare his soul, in these processes, translated 'auditing,'
every 'crime' the person has ever committed will come out eventually.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 432
We counted sixteen tiny auditing rooms, one after the other. Auditing is
how Scientology makes its big money. One hour is said to cost from three
to six hundred marks. Not just mentally unstable people fall into the
clutches of the organization. Every person is a potential victim. A former
Stuttgart Scientologist. Question: 'How often have you been audited here
in these closed spaces?' 'That was several hundred hours, so I would have
been here over a hundred times.' Question: 'And what did you pay for
that?' 'All in all over 100,000 marks for the auditing, the largest
portion of it.' Question: 'How did you get into it?' 'That was a ruse by a
management consulting company whose seminars I took. That is how the
contact to Scientology came about later on.'
Outwardly Scientology advertises with glitter and glamor. World stars in
the service of the psycho-corporation. The pretty packaging takes
attention away from the true goals of the Scientology Organization. Report
from Munich has seen another revealing policy of sect founder L. Ron
Hubbard. According to what it says, politicians and management will be
misused to further the goals of Scientology without their knowing it.
Hubbard instructed, 'Don't bother to get elected. ... Use any talent one
has to get a place close in [to such a person], go to work on the
environment and make it function better'."
Typical example in Germany: the famous artist, Gottfried Helnwein, for
whom it was decided that he is a Scientologist. Prominent politicians and
opinion leaders are among his friends and supporters. He has that support
even though the Scientology Organization has been using him for years to
advertise, as discovered by "Report" from Munich. Numerous internal sect
magazines have recorded celebrity Helnwein's highest words of praise for
Scientology. Helnwein, the painter, has sold his art in the service of the
sect. At the same time, he has wooed the public and has played the
persecuted artist who allegedly has nothing to do with Scientology. He can
depend on his powerful friends in politics and the media. A Green Party
Parliamentary Vice-President [Antje Vollmer] even made a state affair out
of the "Helnwein case."
Antje Vollmer: "You know, for me this really has a little bit to do with
this Republic. And I am getting involved with this case because my image
of civility in this Republic really does not permit Gottfried Helnwein to
have to leave the country. I would not like that."
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 433
Helnwein already went. In America he even wanted to meet with U.S.
congressmen and representatives from the State Department, as the
Washington Scientology Center told the DPA on January 14, 1997: Helnwein
was to report on his painful discrimination as an artist and as a
Scientologist (!) in Germany. The fact is: State Department spokesman
Nicholas Burns received a Scientology delegation. Was Helnwein permitted
to pour out his troubles for him? "No comment," "Report" was told in
Washington.
[image of letter]
Scientology in the USA "outed" Helnwein as a Scientologist (!) victim of
"painful discrimination" in Germany on January 14, 1997 in an official
press release . The nightmare is over. Or is it?
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Painter Helnwein complains in the USA about discrimination against
Scientologists =
Washington (dpa) - The Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein has given
American administrative officials "a first-hand report about the shocking
and painful discrimination which he, a Scientologist, has been subject to
in spite of his outstanding professional accomplishments." That was
released by the Scientology sect on Tuesday in Washington.
According to their release, Helnwein, an internationally renowned graphic
artist and painter, has met with officials from the National Security
Council of the USA and its State Department, as well as with members of
Congress.
The 48-year-old artist who comes from Vienna and lives in Germany obtained
a temporary restraining order in 1994 defending himself against an
accusation that he was a member of Scientology. At the time, said
Helnwein, the assertion that he was a member of the Scientology Church was
"false and a sheer invention. I am not a member anywhere." Critics in
Germany continue to reply to him that the sect is using his name to
advertise.
On Thursday last week, "Oscar" prizewinners Dustin Hoffman and Oliver
Stone as well as 32 other stars of the American cultural scene accused
Germany of "organized persecution" against Scientology. In an open letter
to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, which was published as an advertisement
in the International Herald Tribune," the signers drew parallels to the
Nazi era. This past fall, the Scientologists had taken out advertisements
in the New York Times which compared the German proceedings against
Scientology with Nazi methods.
The stars emphasized that they were not members of the sect. Kohl accused
them of having "no idea of Germany, neither do they wish to have an idea,
otherwise they never would have talked such nonsense."
scan of original German
On January 15, 1992, DPA Washington reported the scandal
Helnwein "outed" as a Scientologist
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 435
Even in Germany: silence from the responsible parties. Neither Gottfried
Helnwein nor Antje Vollmer had the courage to go on in front of our
camera. Only Alfred Biolek gave us an interview last week. Report: Mr.
Biolek, what do you really expect now from Gottfried Helnwein? Biolek: I
expect nothing, because I spoke with him after he came back from the USA
and I asked him what was really going on now, whether he had lied to me,
because it did indeed appear as if he said in the USA that he was an
active Scientologist. And he assured me that he had said nothing over
there in from of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or the Senate or the
House of Representatives, I don't know exactly, that was different from
what he had told me in our broadcast or from what he had told Mr.
Riehl-Heyse from the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" newspaper. He has hired an
attorney to, so to speak, force the Scientologists, who published
something quite different about him in their own press office in
Washington, to correct what they said or tell the truth. Therefore I don't
feel like he's gone behind my back or lied to me, at least until I see
proof to the contrary."
Yet today there is still no official denial of Helnwein's membership in
Scientology, despite an inquiry made by "Report" to Scientology in the
USA. So who is lying? Helnwein or Scientology?
Sabine Weber, press spokeswoman for "Scientology Germany:
I can only tell you that you will have to get in touch with Washington, I
don't have any more information, I assume that someone made a mistake but
I don't know that, I only know that you have to personally talk it over
with Mr. Helnwein and with the Scientology Church in Washington. That is
the only thing I can suggest."
Was everything just an administrative error, or is Helnwein lying? We made
inquiries to someone who would have to know. Professed Scientologist Waki
Zoellner is an artist, and acquaintance of Helnwein and has reached OT
VIII, which is currently the highest level which can be achieved in
Scientology.
Waki Zoellner, OT VIII - Scientologist and Helnwein's friend. Question:
"So is he a Scientologist?" Zoellner: "Yes." Question: "And it is
possible, if he had gone your route, the open route, that he could no
longer be working in Germany?" Zoellner: "That is what he did. That
tempted him. That had been made impossible for him until he even said,
yes, he was familiar with Scientology, but ...." Question: "As an
experienced Scientologist, what would you advise him to do now? Make a
clean breast of it or continue the route of deception? Zoellner: "That is
hard to say. That is a matter of his conscience,
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 436
what he wants to do. I can only recommend to Helnwein that he get on with
being a Scientologist as soon as possible and eat up this knowledge as
soon as possible. Who knows how long it will still be around?"
In saying that, top-Scientologist Zoellner verified the opinion of the
Frankfurt Superior State Court. In 1996, the court determined in a
decision which could not be appealed: "Helnwein is a Scientologist."
"Report" caught Helnwein's reaction to that in a tape recorded interview
which has not yet been published. In that interview Helnwein said, "I am
saying it: it is a misjudgment. The judge was a Nazi. It was a sheer
misjudgment." Wolfgang Frank, judge and press spokesman of the Frankfurt
am Main Superior State Court. Question: "Mr. Frank, how will the Frankfurt
Superior State Court react to this insult from Mr. Helnwein?" Frank: "Once
in a while, here in the Superior State Court a criminal charge is filed in
the course of duty. The statement that the judges were acting like Nazis,
however, was done very deliberately and, at the same time, an effort was
made to categorize oneself as a victim of the Nazis, thereby making the
horrors of the Holocaust useful for oneself in some kind of fashion."
So much for "Report" from Munich.
The Alfred Biolek case
It began on September 5, 1991. Alfred Biolek was traveling the 120 km.
from Cologne to Burgbrohl to meet the Viennese man, Gottfried Helnwein and
his wife at the Burgbrohl castle. Topic: the ARD Show, "Boulevard Bio."
But that was not all they talked about...
Clearwater in Florida. Second residence of the Helnwein couple since 1988.
Location: The Scientology headquarters in FLAG. It is the 7th of
February, 1991, 6 p.m. There is a little get-together for a fine dinner in
the Hibiscus Restaurant, the top Scientology restaurant at FLAG. Those
partaking of the evening meal include Renate Helnwein and her long-time
friend Loredana Biancolinia, better known as Shapari Khashoggi, wife of
the famous arms dealer, Adnan Khashoggi, one of the richest men in the
world. At that point in time, Loredana had been residing in the
"President's suite" in the FLAG Fort Harrison Hotel for almost one year.
She was there, as were Gottfried and Renate Helnwein, to receive intensive
Scientology training, as former FLAG staff member Martin Ottmann is aware
of. Her husband, Adnan, according to Ottmann, was also spending some time
here with his wife in Clearwater, though only for a short while.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 437
Seven months later at the Biolek-Helnwein meeting in Burgbrohl, the theme
included the Khashoggi couple. Alfred Biolek told the attentive pair about
what was to be on his "Boulevard Bio" broadcast with the working title,
"Beneficence: Modern Welfare," scheduled for November 20, 1991 in
Cologne. Guests included Ute Ohoven from Duesseldorf. Subsequent to this
meeting with the Helnweins, Biolek succeeded with one or the other's help
in getting Renate's friend from FLAG, Loredana, together with her husband
Adnan on his talk show. A gigantic success for Scientology.
Exactly one year later, now it is November 3, 1992, the first high-ranking
Scientology guest was a guest on the Biolek broadcast; this time it was
Gottfried Helnwein on the topic of "Vienna."
As mentioned, on September 24, 1991, wife Renate proudly wrote about her
"success" shortly after Biolek's visit to their home on September 5, 1991,
in a letter to her friend, Scientologist and construction tycoon Kurt
Fliegerbauer: "... Gottfried was a guest on the Biolek broadcast, the
topic of SCN (Scientology) was also brought up. Biolek was here, is very
positive! ... Renate." She was celebrating a year too early for Gottfried.
The contact to Biolek did not break off after that talk show. Today they
are still friends, for five years now, and meet regularly either in
Cologne or in Burgbrohl, in 1995 they vacationed together at a festival at
the Helnwein castle, or took, as also happened in 1995, an 8 day vacation
trip down the Nile together. And so Helnwein appeared again in fall 1996
on "Boulevard Bio" as the star guest. Woe to him who thinks anything is
evil with that.....
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Helnwein and the "Nazi" Judge - continued
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 438
The SZ*, surprisingly uncritical
*Sueddeutsche Zeitung ("SZ")
In reference to the article "New Taboo
Zones for Scientologists," the first
surprising thing is the obvious fact that the
otherwise soberly critical SZ (this
newspaper, the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung")
believes Helnwein the Austrian painter
when he says that he is not a
Scientologist.
Research by journalists from other media
yielded several weeks ago that Helnwein
numbers among the leading Scientologists.
On January 14, 1997 in the USA,
Scientology itself revealed that he belongs
to that organization. The Interior Ministry
also has information which is
condemnatory in this regard which gives
evidence that Helnwein is an influential,
long-term member of Scientology.
In addition to that, the article and the
commentary, unfortunately, provided
none of the on-going contextual
discussion about Scientology.
Nevertheless, we completely unanimously
agree with the attitude that the
government should have no interest in
whether an artist is a communist, a
Freemason, Scientologist or member of
the CSU. Neither is an assessment of
Helnwein's artistic quality part of the
debate.
A wholly different matter is the question of
whether state institutions use public tax
money to subsidize members of totalitarian
organizations which include not only leftwing
or rightwing extremist parties and groups,
but also Scientology. It would not pass
muster for the state to recognize a danger
from a certain group on the one hand, yet
contribute to its finances on the other.
Would the SZ approve of it, for example, if
the Bavarian state government subsidized
selected neo-Nazis with the argument
before us?
In closing, please permit me to make the
following comment: during the past few
weeks, the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" appears
to me to have critically concerned itself
mainly with the 15 point list of measures by
the Bavarian state administration, while the
Scientology system of human contempt has
as good as not been mentioned. While other
media in Europe and worldwide have had
stories about the psycho-practices and
Scientology reform camps which are
documented by reports of former members,
that has hardly been mentioned in the SZ.
As I have found in several meetings, that has
also been diligently recorded by the various
media.
Christoph Hillenbrand
Press spokesman of the Bavarian
State Ministry of the Interior
Scan of original German article
The dispute about Helnwein continues. The opponent ....
(from: "SZ" of February 6, 1997
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 439
In the Footsteps of Hundhammer
The state government has requested that no
Bavarian communities support any event
"which is associated with an advertisement
for the Scientology Organization." One
example of such an advertisement, the
recommendation continues, may be
"presumed when internationally known
celebrities (appear) who openly profess to
Scientology."
Openly professing to Scientology, however,
is exactly what Gottfried Helnwein, the
painter, does not do, on the contrary. He
publicly says, "I shit on Scientology." He has
filed a Constitutional complaint against a
court decision which stated that he may be
described, without consequence, as a
Scientology "auditor." He has protested in
writing to the American Church of
Scientology about them describing him as a
Scientologist against his will and using him in
their press campaigns. How an exhibition
with Helnwein's pictures may be an
advertisement for Scientology under these
conditions remains a secret of the Interior
Ministry.
Neither is this about "the state" contributing
to the "financing" of a totalitarian
organization. It has much more to do with
whether the state's (or a community's)
granting a subsidy to an artists' association
entails the right to dictate to that association
which painters may have their work put on
display and which not.
The last time something comparable to
this happened was in 1949 with Bavarian
Cultural Minister Alois Hundhammer,
when he plotted to have Werner Egk's
ballet "Abraxas" taken off the schedule of
the Bavarian State Opera. The reason: he
refused to "have such things presented at
the cost of the state." If the argument is
not about the artistic quality of Helnwein's
pictures, but about the character of the
painter, then one would also have to
forbid the Munich Philharmonic orchestra
from playing works by Richard Strauss,
for example. Under the Nazis he
constantly led the Reich's music chamber.
Finally: if there really were a neo-Nazi
who painted exciting pictures which have
high artistic value, then he, too, should be
able to put them on exhibition at an
association which receives state subsidies,
provided that he does not use the
exhibition as a platform for Nazi
propaganda. Anybody who has had a
look at Gottfried Helnwein's work and
asserts afterwards that these pictures
glorify totalitarian ideas is either blind or
malicious.
Hans Holzhaider
Scan of original German article
.... and the defender
(from: "SZ" of February 6, 1997
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 440
The Nazi Judge
On August 15, 1996, in his castle in Burgbrohl, Gottfried Helnwein gave a
four hour, tape-recorded interview to Viennese journalist Lies Kato in
which it was said:
"LK: Since the last court decision you may be called a 'minister of the
Church of Scientology' .
GH: Yes. That is proof of how the mentally ill gain ground and do not even
stop at courts or judges. The judgment shows how degenerate and decadent
the courts are. It is one of those kinds of delusional misjudgments...
And now this misjudgment has come from the Nazi judge from Frankfurt, by
which one may publicly describe me as a sect priest. May publicly say: I
exterminate people by forced hypnosis... In the last several years I have
somehow been able to keep up my exhibitions, by complaints and lawsuits. I
have always won every single trial because they were about things which
were completely absurd and also easy to disprove. But that was never
mentioned in the press. Nothing up until the one time that a feeble-minded
judge handed down this misjudgment: now they are talking! ... But I say:
the judge was a Nazi ... It was a misjudgment, and he did it because he
knew: that was the last stage of the proceedings; he ruled out appeal."
How did that happen? What were the causes? Why, after Helnwein's "golden"
Scientology years in the second half of the '80s, was his ship slowly
sinking in the channel of growing public criticism of Scientology in the
early '90s?
Former Helnwein consultant Peter Reichelt: "I hope this book will be able
to contribute some information and answers to several previously
unanswered questions and riddles. I also hope that it raises as many
questions as it answers. Even after spending almost a decade with Helnwein
and thinking that I knew him very well, I was very surprised at what all
came to light with a little research."
These are exclusively facts, not suppositions, and will remain so. Bitter
truths for artist Gottfried Helnwein. What will probably happen to him,
the model Scientologist who has been so for half his life, but who
currently has no social or commercial prospects, at least not in Germany
by his own estimation?
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter Reichelt, 1997 - Page 441
What mistake did he make? Where did he make it? What will happen to his
four children who, with the exception of the youngest, have been schooled
in Hubbard's Scientology, knowing full well from his own experience what
can happen to them?
What will happen to his art when not even Scientologists can afford to buy
it anymore? And what will happen to him when not even the last remaining
Helnwein apologist, highly esteemed in technical circles, German
correspondent Riehl-Heyse from the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" newspaper
refuses to say or type a word for him?
The person and artist of Helnwein, as has already happened in his
birthplace of Vienna from which he fled in 1984, now is certainly,
magnificently and, above all, theatrically perfectly ruined in his new
homeland of choice, Burgbrohl in Germany. Greater (supposedly intellectual
as well as legal) efforts have not availed him in contradicting truths,
undoing deeds, turning fiction into fact or vice versa.
An actor played his part according to the script. After his move to
Rheinpfalz, "actor" Helnwein has been playing his latest part in the
script of his life which he wrote according to his own rules, without
deviation, not one iota, no ifs, ands or buts. Constantly droning the
same lines over in monotone until anything seems believable. Do just one
more take of reality today and that will be enough for the incredible
Helnwein script. In the past few years he has shown his true, unmade-up
face only very rarely and he has lost his rehearsed carelessness and
tranquility. Amazingly, exclusively in recognition of a most bitter truth
for him, that also, or even Gottfried Helnwein can lose just one more
thing, and that would "only" be his credibility.
Now once again, what did he say on August 15, 1996 about the highest
Frankfurt judge who verified for him in black and white that he is a
Scientologist:
... And now this misjudgment has come from the Nazi judge from Frankfurt
... a feeble-minded judge handed down this misjudgment ... But I say: the
judge was a Nazi ... "
Poor Gottfried Helnwein
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