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There’s something intimate and oddly beautiful about Perpetuum Mobile. As vocalist Blixa Bargeld softly utters “was habe ich? / was habe ich nicht” (what do I have? / what don’t I have?) in “Selbstportrait mit Kater,” memories harken back to ’70’s Berlin when the then-young Bargeld and percussionist N.U.Unruh picked metal trash off the streets and, for the first time, beat out their existential angst on the overpass on the Autobahn. “Perpetuum Mobile?...
...conventional arms. The driving force of the movement is a feeling that Europeans have lost control of their future, that they could be incinerated in a war between the superpowers. In West Germany, the starkest of the protest slogans hits closest to the gut of the matter: ICH HABE ANGST (I am afraid). It is a feeling being articulated across Europe by a frightened young generation, and by its elders...
...could I be so brazen as to write in the book that my "host" was Christopher Bishop? But to put anyone else's name would habe been to lie. I couldn't do that. So I wrote nothing in the sign-out book. And someone had noticed...
DIED. Hans Habe, 66, Hungarian-born author (A Thousand Shall Fall) and journalist who once enraged Adolf Hitler by disclosing that his real name was Schicklgruber; of a glandular ailment; in Locarno, Switzerland. Habe fought in both the French and U.S. armies in World War II and during the Allied occupation was named overseer of German newspaper publications. Called "a born novelist" by Thomas Mann, Habe wrote a score of widely translated books and, by his own count, some 10,000 articles...
...Habe: writ of habeas corpus...