Alphabet des anarchistischen Amateurs

Citizen Soul, Cunnilingus, Defloration, Dollar, Television, Women's Emancipation, Declining Birth Rates, Money, Death Penalty, Christ's Foreskin: No embarrassment and no hypocrisy escapes the watchful and relentless gaze of Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn, who mercilessly tackles various aspects of our everyday lives in this entertaining alphabet. Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn is no ordinary figure: As a feared satirist and pamphleteer, he ran a magazine almost single-handedly, similar to Karl Kraus: The Nebelhorn. In it, he even surpassed Kraus in the sharpness of observation and expression. There is hardly a subject that he does not scrutinize under the lens of satire (which can sometimes be coarse polemics). The target of his aphoristic blade is "murder," namely the "murder of nonsense, i.e., of the authority that is unfortunately already identical with it." The editor Beatrix Müller-Kampel organizes the revealing flashes of insight from this spirited firebrand into an alphabet, with keywords ranging from disarmament to celibacy humor, and addresses the vile, mean, and foolish aspects of our daily lives with a rare degree of unforgivingness. His satirical fury is directed against the state and government as well as against war, violence, and capitalism. He equally despised displays of authority and belief in authority. He fundamentally mistrusts all forms of authority and spots them everywhere: among socialists and national socialists, Catholics, Protestants, and atheists, among anti-Semites and Jews, among housewives and feminists.