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The tax raids at Burgbrohl on Helnwein - 1995 and 1996
Early November 1995 - Austrian news magazine "News," with the
headline "Helnwein subject of tax investigation," announced the
beginning of a comprehensive investigation by German revenue agents of several
top Scientologists who resided in Germany for extensive tax evasion practices
which followed the known Austrian model. News:
"Twelve agents confiscated Helnwein's books. Now the German revenue
agents are also after the Austrian ... twelve Burgbrohl tax investigation
agents stormed the German domicile of Viennese painter Gottfried Helnwein and
confiscated all his accounting books. Helnwein: 'I have nothing to hide, but
that was a low blow.' Now he wants to strike back: 'In December I am
getting a studio in the tax shelter of Switzerland, then another one in Los
Angeles, for me to paint. Then the Germany revenue agents will have nothing to
show for their work.'" Those few sentences are still everything that
Helnwein has stated about his tax affair. On November 30, 1995, the first
German press organ, "Die Rheinpfalz" Ludwigshafen daily newspaper,
finally reported on the investigators' operation. "The tax
investigators in Coblenz have searched the residence of Austrian artist
Gottfried Helnwein in Burgbrohl (Ahrweiler County) and confiscated his
accounting books. This has been verified for us. Helnwein, himself, did not
wish to make a statement. On the level of state politics, there was much lively
discussion about Helnwein's connection to the Scientology Organization
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"News" - magazine in November 1995
when the artist and Donald-Duck memorabilia collector arranged an exhibition in the Mainz
State Museum as part of the Rheinland-Pfalz summer of culture."
The "IAF AG" in Vienna
In this German tax detective story, too, all clues led to Vienna. A main role
was played by Viennese art dealer Peter Grebner, Gallery Spectrum business
manager in the '70s and '80s. In the beginning of his career in 1974, Helnwein
successfully exhibited, in the Gallery's spaces in Vienna, a "one-man show"
consisting of the first retrospective of his "early works."
Therefore, Helnwein has had a lot to be thankful for from Peter Grebner back to
the early '70s. In the years that followed, there were extensive, mutual
business relations, which lasted into the '90s.
According to information from Austrian authorities, Gallery operator Grebner was
chairman of a company in 1993 and 1994, the offices of which were in 134 Maria
Hilfer Str. in Vienna. Grebner's "International Art Funding AG Inc. -
Vienna representative" had just one fatal flaw: it never existed.
Nevertheless, between 1992 and 1994, Grebner's non-existent "IAF AG"
booked many demands for commission for various activities involving "art
purchases" with Gottfried Helnwein. The demands on those were supposed to
have run over DM 250,000. Naturally, these accounts decreased Helnwein's income
and reduced his taxes considerably.
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Transcript
Transaction number: III KLs 3/93
Rostock State Court
Judgment
in the name of the
people
In the criminal matter against
K[blacked out]-E[blacked out] H[blacked-out],
born on [blacked out]
residing at [blacked out]
German male, single
H[blacked out] D[blacked out] F[blacked out],
born on [blacked out]
residing at [blacked out]
German male, married
the 3rd major criminal chamber - commercial crime chamber - of the Rostock State
Court, based on the proceedings of June 24, 29 and July 8, 1993, participated in
by the following:
Judge for the State Court [blacked out] as chairman
Judge [blacked out], Judge [blacked out] as co-presiding judges,
Master [blacked out]
Engineer [blacked out]
as jurymen,
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Helnwein's friends and top Scientologists, "Patrons"
Detleff Foullois and Karl-Erich Heilig, were sentenced in July 1993 by Rostock
State Court to 2 years, 2 months incarceration for tax evasion in the amount of
millions. In 1991, both "donated" over DM 10 million to Scientology
in the USA
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State attorney [blacked out]
as official of the state attorney's office,
Attorney [female] [blacked out]
Attorney [male] [blacked out]
as
defense of the accused H[blacked out]
Attorney [male] [blacked out]
Attorney [male] [blacked out]
as defense
of the accused F[blacked out]
Justice department employee [female] [blacked out]
as recorder of the
proceedings
have found as just:
The accused are sentenced on account of continued tax evasion to incarceration
for
2 years and 2 months each
The accused will bear the cost of the proceedings
Proscriptions applied
[list of German regulations and paragraphs can be seen on the scan of the
original German document.]
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Because the sales of H's company officially exploded in winter 1990/91 - in
January 1991 the sales were over DM 3 million - and H's company "Werbeideen"
had at its disposal, by contract with its customers, a large cash balance, the
two accused mutually decided together that amounts in the millions were going to
be donated to the Scientology Church and various of its sub-organizations. In
1990 alone, the two withdrew about DM 4.1 million of net sales of DM 5.5 million
in advertising and donated the major portion of this withdrawal to the
Scientology Church and its sub-organizations. Up to April or May 1991, the two
together gave the Scientology Church an amount no less than DM 7 million.
According to statements by the accused H. the amount of the contribution could
have also been far over DM 10 million. This was the sum calculated by the
accused H. in a memo of June 3, 1992. Due to a lack of standard bookkeeping, the
sums listed in that letter were based on the estimates of the accused H. But in
his opinion, the donated sums could also have been much higher.
When the accused H. recognized that business was going well, he decided to go
to the USA in order to study so-called "Management Tech" by L. Ron
Hubbard with the Scientology Church, and to reach the step of "Clear"
on "the Bridge to Total Freedom." He therefore stayed in the USA from
October 24 - November 12, 1990, from December 23, 1990 - early February 1991,
from March 6 - April 29, 1991 and from May 2 - end of June 1991. He again
stayed in the USA from March to the end of April. During this time
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the accused F. carried on business for H's company "Werbeideen,"
which the accused H. had legally empowered the accused F. to do with a notarized
certificate.
As a result of the large withdrawals made by the two accused H.'s company "Werbeideen"
had great cash liquidity problems in spring 1991. These were exacerbated, in
addition, by the decreasing sales of H's company in February. The accused
therefore attempted to delay payments to creditors. That is exactly how the two
accused misled the Guestrow Revenue Office. For instance, accused F. submitted
tax returns of commercial operation to Guestrow Revenue office on May 8, 1991,
and made the following statements in regard to profits and sales tax:
Projected profit in the current calendar year 0 DM, in the coming calendar year
20,000 DM.
Projected amount of sales in current year 500,000 DM, projected
amount of sales in the coming year 700,000 DM.
As also in the following period H's company submitted no sales tax or wages tax,
the revenue office order an audit, which finally took place on August 7, 1991,
after an appointment cancellation. This special audit was terminated during its
course by the finance office based on unexpected bookkeeping and postponed
indefinitely until the evidence could be reviewed.
Immediately before that, with a date of August 5, 1991 H's company "Werbeideen,"
through Mr. Achim D. submitted a first
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sales tax return for the fourth quarter of 1990 with false figures. The details
are still being looked into in the tax determinations.
In any case, shortly before the Guestrow Revenue Office's special audit, Mr.
Reto B. wrote to the accused F. and others, on ARTAG ARTIST AG Bern letterhead
as follows:
Bern, July 31, 1991
Dear D.[blacked out]
Now I have already been home for a good week. In the meantime, I have the data
concerning taxes in Switzerland, which I describe for you as follows:
For legal persons, we have three taxes:
1) State / Local / Church Tax
2) Direct federal tax
3) Capital tax
Here are the maximum tax rates:
1) State / Local / Church tax = 11.9 %
2) Direct federal tax = 9.8 %
3) Capital tax 2.5 %
Tax types 1) and 2) are taken from taxable profit (after taking out tax to be
paid). Tax type 3) is calculated from the company capital (stock capital, legal
reserves and profit balance).
Example: 1) State / Local / Church tax
= Fr. 5,000,000 x 11.9 % = Fr. 595,000.-
2) Direct federal tax
= Fr. 5,000,000 x 9.8 % = Fr. 490,000.-
3) Capital tax
= Fr. 50,000 x 2.550 %o = Fr. 127.50
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= Fr. 1,085,127.50
This Fr. 1,085,127. can be taken deducted from the amount to be taxed. That
means that the annual tax burden of a pure profit (before taxes) of Sfr.
5,000,000.0 is about Fr. 800,000.- That is about 16 % taxes. ./.
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Bank connection: Swiss Volksbank, Worb, account
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[letterhead paper] ARTAG ARTIST AG
- 2 -
The above tax rates are the maximum tax rates. If this tax burden should still
be too high for you (which I would absolutely understand), then there is the
possibility of opening a public company in Canton Zug as a relay point for
further transactions to an internationally based company on the Channel Islands,
like Jersey (St. Helier) or on the Isle of Man
From the personal experience of my trustee (tax advisor and financial office of
my company), Jersey Island is tax free for companies which do not carry out
business in Great Britain. My trustee could identify other possibilities for
tax-free islands. That would be quickly possible with his Comm Lines to England
and Jersey.
If, under these circumstances, a statement of pure profit for the corporation
were not desired in Switzerland (e.g., through payment of the income minus the
administrative costs to the International company), the corporation would not
have to be founded in the City Zug, but could be founded in the domicile of my
tax advisor. This would have not tax disadvantages, since no profit would arise,
but would have great administrative advantages.
The latter named variant would mean that you would not have to pay any taxes,
and legally! So why send the money via Switzerland to Jersey Island? Is that
not an unnecessary Via? - No! The tax officials in Germany would have to be
familiar with the relevant tax shelters. Eventually the German tax authorities
could enact an open tax procedure. License fees in Switzerland are essentially
less conspicuous. As an unbeatable advantage for you and a gigantic
disadvantage for German tax investigators there is the Swiss bank secret. It
would be absolutely impossible to find out anything about your financial
relations, if a numbered account existed. The company on Jersey Island has its
office on Jersey Island. The bank connection or, as the case may be, the
account, will be carried on in Switzerland. I recommend that you take this
suggestion. To sum it up once again shortly:
1) Founding of a stock corporation with initial capital of Fr. 50,000 in Utzigen
(Bern Canton) in the domicile of my trustee.
Company: H[blacked out]
(Switzerland) AG
2) Opening of a company on Jersey Island
Company: H[blacked out]
International, Ltd.
3) Establish a license contract between H[blacked out] Germany and H[blacked
out] (Switzerland) AG
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Bank connection: Swiss Volksbank, Worb, account 5323 - 10 -
457.774.9
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[letterhead paper] ARTAG ARTIST AG
- 3 -
4) Open an account at a major Swiss bank for the company: H[blacked out]
International Ltd with offices in Jersey.
5) Regular license payments from H. Germany to H. (Switzerland) AG.
6) Regular money transfers from H. (Switzerland) AG to the account of H.
International Ltd, Jersey Island (account in Switzerland)
Wow! You know, in putting this data together I have realized what advantage
there is to be gained from the Swiss banks in taxes. To the extent that you send
money from Germany to Switzerland, this money disappears from any revenue agent
in the entire world to some little tax-exempt island. The real advantage of the
bank secret consists of that where the money is going cannot be looked into.
Keep it in Switzerland or have it leave Switzerland again.
In any case, I am very proud of being able to show you this legal tax variant
and of being in the position of executing it for you.
I hope you like this suggestion as much as I do. What does this financial
counseling cost?
Founding expenses of the company: H. (Switzerland) AG
One-time investment of Sfr. 50,000.-. After incorporation,
this capital will be available again.
Incorporation costs:
Start-up deposit Sfr. 1,500.-
Notary costs Sfr. 1,500.-
Production of statutes
incl. stock certificate Sfr. 1,500.-
Filing in Swiss
trade register Sfr. 500.-
Expenses Sfr. 1,500.-
One-time founding expenses
of the company in Switzerland Sfr. 8,500.-
One-time founding expenses
of the company in Jersey Island, about Sfr. 6,500.-
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total founding costs about Sfr. 15,000.-
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Bank connection: Swiss Volksbank, Worb, account 5323 - 10 -
457.774.9
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[letterhead paper] ARTAG ARTIST AG
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Trustee administrative costs 2 % of the money which goes through the bank
account of H. (Switzerland) AG, but a minimum of Fr. 5,000 a month.
To found a stock company, at least 3 natural persons are necessary. Of those, a
majority must be Swiss citizens. If K.-E. and you are co-founders of the
company H. (Switzerland) AG, then three Swiss citizens must be present. These
people form the administrative board of the firm.
I recommend the following three Swiss: P. G. (trustee), T. L., R. B.
This tax model is a much-used system. The essential advantages are
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low administrative costs
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highest security possible for the money in a major Swiss bank
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The money remains in Switzerland (even the money of the company on Jersey
Island)
My tax advisor has established this model for an international Scientology firm
and it has been in use for over one year without any objections (that means
tax-free).
If need be, the money generally collected can be administered to
by my trustee.
I am available for any further general questions. Moreover, a residence for you
and your family, along with K.-E. in Switzerland would be quite a fun thing.
Tax-exempt, pleasant, beautiful landscapes. Switzerland has mountains, lakes,
and not least of all, H.T. and I live in Switzerland. Wouldn't that be
something for the future. The H. Holding company in Switzerland.
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Tobias Leutenegger, long-term business partner of Helnwein, resided at the same
address as "ARTAG ARTIST AG" in Bern. Like Helnwein, a "Patron"
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In Vienna, it was very quickly determined that the IAF was a non-existent
company on paper only. For that reason, the company could not account for
delivering any service. What is interesting are the people and institutions who
supposedly made purchases of pictures with Grebner's IAF. First came the group
of old-time Scientologists, the duo around Helnwein, Mssrs. Kurt Fliegerbauer
and Mario Herold; the trio had known each other since the '80s, because of the
Viennese Wuerthle Gallery, until 1995 under management of the daughter of media
czar Hans Dichand, a great collector of Helnwein's artwork since the '70s (!),
and the "Pfalz" Gallery in Kaiserslautern, under the direction at the
time of Mrs. Dr. Fiedler - Bender, who in summer 1995 made negative headlines
nationwide as new director of the state museum in Mainz with her "Carl
Barks" exhibition, organized by Helnwein. Even the respectable "German
Mail Museum" in Frankfurt am Main, directed at the time by Thomas Werner,
was said to have been "serviced" by Grebner's IAF. The "fake
invoice" tax saving operation by friends Helnwein and Grebner even caused
another search operation to take place in Helnwein's castle and other business
partners in February 1996 which resulted, according to press reports, in
bringing an extensive network of Scientology companies to light. The center
point of the operations was Gottfried Helnwein. As of March 1997, that tax
investigative procedure was still open. The extensive investigations by German
agencies in the Helnwein case are still not settled, and are being conducted in
parallel to those in Austria.
The "Stern" Outing - December 19, 1984
While preparations to move by the Helnwein family had moved into high gear in
December 1984 and they were on the verge of going from Vienna to Germany,
Helnwein was "outed" as an active member of Scientology for the first
time in a newspaper article outside of Germany.
On December 19, 1984, "Stern" magazine, in its article "Yearning
for Immortality," issued strong warnings about Hubbard's retinue:
"Businesses of the aggressive 'Scientology Church' have been prohibited
nationwide. The adherents of the psycho-sect also include well-known artists
... As far as the city of Duesseldorf is concerned, the alleged 'church' is
simply 'immoral.' A judge in the London High Court believes it is 'corrupt,
sinister and dangerous'."
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As far as Viennese horror painter Gottfried Helnwein, 36, is concerned, that is
all just "nonsense." He views the criticism as more evidence of a
campaign against minorities which he says is being systematically carried out
against Scientology. Helnwein who, together with Roncalli Circus director
Bernhard Paul, has been called a Hubbard adherent, told 'Stern': 'Scientology
has stabilized me. I am off of all alcohol and drugs.' He said he got into the
sect ten years ago. Since then he believes Hubbard's deluded philosophy is
'sober, clear, rational and logical,' and does not want to be aware that
Scientology has less to do with belief than it does with psycho-terrorism and
money-sharking.
With artistic coquetry he maintains that he has never heard, for example, that
pressure has been put on apostate sect members. He said he would speak out in
favor of 'anybody who feels threatened by Scientology, but does not know how to
defend themselves.' An offer that sect dissidents would be better off not
taking up. That is because Helnwein, a 'long-term, active member,' according
to information proudly relayed by the Munich Scientology center, has to carry
out the policy instructions of sect boss Hubbard: dissidents are critics and,
consequently 'suppressive persons.' Against whom Scientology may proceed
ruthlessly ... But he who is not enlightened by Scientology, as Hubbard
threatens, will fall 'into the black pit of oblivion.' And what artist would
want that."
The move to Burgbrohl - 1984, or Scientologists among themselves - Helnwein
and Kempe
1984. On the Burgbrohl castle estate stand two castles, Helnwein's so-called "fortress"
and the so-called "castle," which are separated by only about 50
yards.
Fortress and castle, defense installation and a grand, lordly residence, are
combined in Burgbrohl in an impressive style. The installation consists of an
outer wall which contained domestic quarters, today holding the Helnwein's
living spaces, studio, offices and secretariat behind an impressive portal,
built in 1731, and the castle, with more living spaces for the Helnwein family
in the style of the 17th and 18th century, a large, but not magnificent
structure with two wings. On the ground floor there is another studio for
Gottfried Helnwein.
In December 1984, Helnwein rented the fortress for a duration of ten years
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for himself and his family
from Marieta Kempe, since 1987 an "OT VII" like her friend Renate, a
Scientologist with the highest possible training.
Her husband, the successful real estate broker, Klaus Kempe from Duesseldorf,
graduated Scientology level "OT VII" two years later. On May 17,
1982, businessman Kempe "outed" himself for the first time publicly as
a Scientologist in a personal statement. In a letter to the youth protection
spokesman of the city of Duesseldorf, he reported of "my experiences with
the Scientology Church," Kempe: "In December 1980 I was looking for a
new sales director for my real estate office. After an ad was placed to that
effect, a Mario Herold introduced himself."
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Helnwein and Herold in Leipzig and on Ruegen - 1994 and 1995
Fourteen years later in the summer of 1994, Helnwein was to set up for
Scientologist and business consultant Mario Herold an office on 44 Prinz-Eugen
Str. in Leipzig, a so-called "Case Study" (C/S) room for internal
Scientology technical surveillance activity. Helnwein was to develope an
artistic concept for a so-called "creative floor." As a fee, Herold
had mentioned a contribution in the amount of DM 150,000.
The office of Scientologist Mario Herold on 44
Prinz-Eugen Str. in Leipzig, furnished by Gottfried Helnwein in 1994 (photo: AR)
On the first floor, easily visible for an observer from the street, was an
over-sized Helnwein photo-portrait of original Stone Keith Richard, of the
Rolling Stones, (see arrow). Herold today, like the Scientologist construction
business man Kurt Fliegerbauer who is active in Zwickau, is a proud owner of one
of the most extensive Helnwein picture collections, with a value of several
hundred thousand deutschemarks. The showpiece of his collection is a new
version of Helnwein's most famous work "James Dean," with a value of
DM 100,000. Of his Helnwein collection, Herold's favorite picture, however, is
the over-sized painting "MIG 23." To be sure, just as often as it
did for his colleague in faith Helnwein,
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MARIO HEROLD
[address & phone nr.]
Mario Herold, Prinz-Eugen-Str. 44, 04277 Leipzig
Mr. Gottfried Helnwein
at the Burg
56659 Burg Brohl
HE 0341-311574 12.12.1994
1 Payment in the amount of DM 80,000.-
Dear Gottfried,
enclosed is a settlement check in the amount of DM 80,000. This does not quite
come up to our agreed upon amount regarding flow of payments.
If everything
would have run as planned, I would be ready to plan and to realize 2 more
pictures of Mig size under the same conditions.
Furthermore, I was thinking that 9 portraits of philosophers would be
appropriate for my assessment room, which give me the power of knowledge.
So I wish a super production.
Since I know that you in the not too distant
future will come into the same condition in which I find myself, and my
condition would be a miniature preparation for that, it is an honor for me to be
able to do the beginning of this superseries. With my action, I will also open
the flow to you and set it in motion, so that essentially MORE can flow to you.
ON THAT YOUR DREAM IN DIV 3 WILL NOW BE REALIZED!!!
cordially,
/signature/
M. Herold
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Scientologists among themselves: Herold to Helnwein on December 12, 1994
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his passion for collecting brought him into financial arrears, a mortal sin
for Scientologists. On more than one occasion, Herold had to apologize to
Helnwein for not keeping his "cycle," the timely payment of open
bills. In the most proficient Scientology language, Mario Herold wrote his
friend Helnwein on December 12, 1994, "Dear Gottfried, enclosed is a
settlement check in the amount of DM 80,000. This does not quite come up to our
agreed upon amount regarding flow of payments. If everything would have run as
planned, I would be ready to plan and to realize 2 more pictures of Mig size
under the same conditions. Furthermore, I was thinking that 9 portraits of
philosophers would be appropriate for my assessment room, which give me the
power of knowledge. So I wish a super production. Since I know that you in the
not too distant future will come into the same condition in which I find myself,
and my condition would be a miniature preparation for that, it is an honor for
me to be able to do the beginning of this superseries. With my action, I will
also open the flow to you and set it in motion, so that essentially MORE can
flow to you. ON THAT YOUR DREAM IN DIV 3 WILL NOW BE REALIZED!!! cordially, M.
Herold" The handbook of "Modern Management Technology Defined -
Hubbard Dictionary of Administration and Management" by L. Ron Hubbard,
under the key word "DIV 3" reads:
Division 3 - Financial department of a Scientology directed organization.
Only 12 weeks later, Herold's financial situation in regard to his Helnwein
cycle, i.e., "open bills," appears to have worsened again. On March
10, 1995, Helnwein's wife and financial administrator received a fax from
Leipzig which clearly stated what "dilemma" Mario Herold must have
found himself in - torn out of the Hubbard doctrines. The content of his
pleading letter also showed the great fear that Herold must have had for
Helnwein. Herold: "Dear Renate, This cycle has given me no rest. I'm
now having a problem with it and I would like and I have to solve it. The
course of this cycle has indeed been talked through by us many times, and I will
take responsibility for this cycle and my difficulty in duplicating. I now have
DM 95,000 for this art cycle and this money is ready. The supreme rule of
solvency is to expend less than you take in. If I put DM 22,000 to the cycle,
then I have expended more than I have taken in,
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and so I have produced insolvency. Now there are several solutions to my
problem:
1. We agree on a deal which stays in my scope of DM 95,000 which I
have available, with all the diverse coincidental expenses and which satisfies
both sides.
2. But I am also ready to do the complete deal and pay the
remaining DM 15,000 as well as the about DM 22,00. In this case I would then
like to give all "FACES" photos to a museum or something. This
process has nothing to do with you, but is a liability for me or punishment for
my actions of expending more than I took in and for not paying attention, and
should serve me as a type of lesson so that this type of thing does not happen
again.
3. Perhaps, though, you know of a better solution
Maybe you
have problems understanding my viewpoint, but I have worked very hard for my
present condition. In doing that I have kept certain rules and these rules have
led me into this condition. And one of these rules was:
1. Give out less
than I take in and
2. First you earn and then you expend.
I would
simply like not to deviate from these rules. Now I have the following problem.
a. If I pay the DM 22,000 which I stupidly have not FPd, then I would break both
rules at the same time. For breaking these rules I would have to set my own
punishment, otherwise life will do it.
b. If I don't pay, then you would
feel ripped off and say I am hard of hearing and have a faulty memory.
So
I have made two suggestions here and now you decide for one or both or maybe
you have yet a better suggestion. best regards, Mario"
Gottfried Helnwein must have decided positively on one of Herold's
suggestions, because only seven months later, another meeting was on Helnwein's
schedule at the castle for October 20, 1995. One of the people invited to this
meeting was Mayor Liedke of the Ostseebad community of Sellin on Ruegen Island.
The reason was the intended closure of a contract with Helnwein on an
artistic operation called "Seebruecke" ["Lake Bridge"] with
a planned honorarium in the amount of DM 500,000 for Helnwein. The agent for
this cultural project this time was also Mario Herold from Leipzig.
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Renate
10 Mar 1995
Mario Herold
Dear Renate,
This cycle has given me no rest. I'm now having a problem with it and I would
like and I have to solve it.
The course of this cycle has indeed been
talked through by us many times, and I will take responsibility for this cycle
and my difficulty in duplicating.
I now have DM 95,000 for this art cycle and this money is ready. The supreme
rule of solvency is to expend less than you take in. If I put DM 22,000 to the
cycle, then I have expended more than I have taken in, and so I have produced
insolvency. Now there are several solutions to my problem:
1. We agree on
a deal which stays in my scope of DM 95,000 which I have available, with all the
diverse coincidental expenses and which satisfies both sides.
2. But I am
also ready to do the complete deal and pay the remaining DM 15,000 as well as
the about DM 22,00. In this case I would then like to give all "FACES"
photos to a museum or something. This process has nothing to do with you, but
is a liability for me or punishment for my actions of expending more than I took
in and for not paying attention, and should serve me as a type of lesson so that
this type of thing does not happen again.
3. Perhaps, though, you know of a
better solution
Maybe you have problems understanding my viewpoint, but I have worked very hard
for my present condition. In doing that I have kept certain rules and these
rules have led me into this condition. And one of these rules was:
1.
Give out less than I take in and
2. First you earn and then you expend.
I would simply like not to deviate from these rules.
Now I have the following problem.
a. If I pay the DM 22,000 which I
stupidly have not FPd, then I would break both rules at the same time. For
breaking these rules I would have to set my own punishment, otherwise life will
do it.
b. If I don't pay, then you would feel ripped off and say I am hard
of hearing and have a faulty memory.
So have have made two suggestions here and now you decided for one or both or
maybe you have yet a better suggestion.
best regards,
Mario
Scan of original German
Scientologists have problems, too!
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In March 1997, Liedke verified the dealings between Helnwein and Herold which,
according to what he said though, took place solely on Ruegen. Plans included,
according to Liedke, the construction of a roofed, year-round, utilitarian art
center (!) on the generally much loved "Lake Bridge" of the Sellin
lakeside resort, which went far out into the Ostsee lake and is one of the
landmarks of Ruegen Island. Another "Bridge to Freedom" for Helnwein?
Similarities to the "Bridge to Total Freedom," as Scientology founder
Hubbard entitled his science fiction creation, are probably sheer coincidence.
After the mayor found out from a third party about Helnwein's managing staff
inside the Scientology organization, he ended any further cooperation with him
in short order in November 1995, and put the planned project "on ice"
until further notice. Fees for Helnwein's and Herold's activities up to that
point, according to Liedke, had not been paid
In January 1996, Helnwein finally flew with his friend Herold into Russian St.
Petersburg. Maybe seeking a successful trial run in matters of Scientology's "eastward
expansion"? During that trip, a meeting with the management of the Russian
State Museum took place in preparation for a museum retrospective "Gottfried
Helnwein: One-Man Show." The show, which consisted of 93 works, had
premiered in November 1996 in the Petersburg Museum in Hokkaido, Japan. After
that it was to show in Ingolstadt in April 1997, and then in his home town of
Vienna from September 1997. Both shows, however, were cancelled in March 1997
by the cultural institutions without more precisely describing the reasons.
Mario Herold became "OT 3," also Peter Tovornick, Helnwein's Viennese
business partner. Graduation site: East Grinstead in England
(from "The Auditor" 228, 1988)
In the preceding year, Renate
Helnwein became a "New OT 5" in the same place; her friend Herold made
"Academy Level 0"
(from "The Auditor" 223, 1987)
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Klaus Kempe - The Real Estate Broker
Klaus Kempe again in his letter of May 1982: "After a personal meeting
with Mario Herold, we agreed on a sales course for the distribution staff, which
then took place as agreed. I found this training very motivating, positive and,
mentally speaking, very good and exciting. Among other things, Mr. Herold told
us about an ARC triangle - it had to do with the connection between affinity,
reality and communication in regard to speaking to customers. After this
lecture for the staff, Mr. Herold sold me a book entitled "Dianetics"
which I read on my skiing vacation. This book is rather basic in the
Scientology Church and its content has several views to improve the
understanding of self and others. I have sent you a copy. After studying this
book, I felt a need to get to know and try out more of the fundamentals.
Therefore I went to 55 Oststrasse in the local Duesseldorf Scientology center
and took a communication course there, which I will graduate in the coming
weeks. The course cost DM 265 and has brought me considerable success.
Moreover, today we are giving this course as a sales communication course to all
our staff (for free, naturally). Attached, you will also receive my success
story.
Then I graduated a Purification Rundown, which consists of an extensive sauna
program, along with consuming vitamins and athletic activity. Also here, I can
only talk about positive experiences, as you can see from my success report,
which is also attached. The course cost DM 1,700. After graduating the
Communication Course, my wife also went to Oststrasse and took their
communication course and then took the Purification Rundown together with me. I
had been in the Evangelical Church since 1973, where I had to pay over DM 5,000
taxes, but went into the Scientology Church about the middle of 1981. There, for
the rest of my life, I had to pay a one-time contribution of DM 300. I can
describe the students who are taking the same courses as I only as positive and
successful people who, besides being students, are also housewives and in
business. The access to these spaces is rather free and open. Here, anybody
can really come and go as he likes and also decide on the time
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he takes his course and what his areas of interest are. The most important
basics of thinking positively, acting positively and understanding for my fellow
human beings has also motivated me very much professionally and given me new
goals. We, that means my wife and I, then got auditing in fall 1981; I've
enclosed a small brochure on that for you. The points of this brochure are
discussed before an auditor, existing charge is localized with an e-meter and
removed. My personal relations to myself, to my wife and to my environment has
thereby decisively improved.
In February 1982, we took a Student Hat course in Flag in Clearwater, Florida,
which removes many learning problems and study problems in today's daily routine
and removes misunderstandings. This course, for both my wife and me, cost U.S.
$1,500, and we were also very satisfied with this course. At the moment we are
getting some more auditing and, ourselves, are studying the facts about
auditing. I would also be happy to send you the training material for this ....".
The first contact between Helnwein and real estate broker Kempe took place by
fall 1983. At that point in time, Helnwein was searching for a residence in
Germany to suit his purposes. In December 1983, Kempe was sending his first
lucrative real estate offers to Helnwein in Vienna. Nevertheless, nobody told
him at first about all the purposes it would have to serve. At the end of
January 1984, Helnwein flew to Clearwater, Florida for two months in order to
continue his training at Flag. In fall of the same year, Helnwein finally got
lucky in Germany, thanks to Kempe's untiring efforts. Burgbrohl Castle was
selected as the future Helnwein headquarters. The people of the small, sleepy
cow town were not yet aware of anything that to happen once the celebrity artist
arrived.
The first success report from Burgbrohl
In December 1984, Helnwein finally moved, lock, stock and barrel, from Vienna to
Germany in order to establish a new "Scientology Center" at Burgbrohl.
Just 16 months later, on April 22, 1986, Gottfried's wife Renate announced the
first success in the establishment and operation of their center to their
Burgbrohl brokers, Marietta and Klaus Kempe in Duesseldorf.
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"OT 8" Renate Helnwein at Burg Brohl - 1992
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To M.
Marietta and Klaus Kempe
23 Aschenbach Str. Duesseldorf
Burgbrohl, April 22, 1986
Dear Maritta [sic] and dear Klaus!
So far as I know we were at Flag per DU and if it is OK with you we will just
simply stay here.
Surely you have already heard from Adelheid what all is
happening on the Burg. We have auditing here and there are courses two times a
week and we have already started many upstat people. It is really insanely fun
to see that the people one brings are also really WINNERS.
We're doing better and better here and recently we were in Vienna once and
Gottfried said that he did not regret one second there.
Now that it is
spring it is especially beautiful and we have already done very much in the
park. After work it is often very much fun to do some Mest work in the garden.
Things are also going best with the art, the stats are going up more and more
and we have several top exhibitions. Gottfried has done very many new pictures
and at the moment he is painting an absolute masterpiece, "Humphrey Bogart,"
an uncannily beautiful mood similar to that of James Dean. Maybe you'll also want
to take a look at the pictures and also see the progress at the Burg. Next we
want to go shopping for the Burg, I would enjoy hearing from you.
See ya soon,
Renate Helnwein
/signature/
Scan of original German
The Helnwein Scientology Center in Burg Brohl, 1986
Helnwein is proud of
his "success"
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Renate Helnwein: "Dear Maritta and dear Klaus! So far as I know we were
at Flag per DU and if it is OK with you we will just simply stay here.
Surely you have already heard from Adelheid what all is happening on the Burg.
We have auditing here and there are courses two times a week and we have already
started many upstat people. It is really insanely fun to see that the people
one brings are also really WINNERS.
We're doing better and better here and recently we were in Vienna once and
Gottfried said that he did not regret one second there.
Now that it is
spring it is especially beautiful and we have already done very much in the
park. After work it is often very much fun to do some Mest work in the garden.
Things are also going best with the art, the stats are going up more and
more and we have settle top exhibitions. Gottfried has done very many new
pictures and at the moment he is painting an absolute masterpiece, "Humphrey
Bogart," an uncannily beautiful mood similar to that of James Dean. May
you'll also want to take a look at the pictures and also see the progress at the
Burg. Next we want to go shopping for the Burg, I would enjoy hearing from you.
See ya soon, signed: Renate Helnwein
As early as September 1985, only 9 months after her arrival in Germany, Renate
Helnwein held 9th place easy among a total of 35 FSM staff with a total of two "started
people" in the Duesseldorf Scientology organization there, with FSMs being
Field Staff Members, who are independent recruiting representatives similar to
independent newspaper vendors. Duesseldorf was the location of the organization
in which she and her husband carried out sales as local Scientologists - the
Helnwein "Burgbrohl City Office" was administratively subordinate to
the major Duesseldorf organization.
"Started people" are people whom FSMs have gotten interested in
Scientology for the first time and recruited them for courses, either in
Burgbrohl or in Duesseldorf, or for auditing or acquiring literature from L. Ron
Hubbard.
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Number 0985
DIANETIC MAIL
Communication for members of Duesseldorf Scientology
[image of a cartoon character]
L. Ron Hubbard:
The True Story of Scientology
The true story of Scientology is simple, meaningful and direct. It is easily
told:
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A philosopher developed philosophy about life and death.
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People find it interesting.
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People find out that it works
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People tell others about it
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It grows
If we examine this extremely precise and very short story, we see that there
are a few very disturbing elements in our civilization which intend that
something else about Scientology be believed.
These disturbing elements are the Merchants of Chaos. They operate with
confusion and disturbance. Their daily bread is earned by causing chaos. If
this chaos were to decrease, their income would also decrease.
Politicians, reporters, psychiatrists with their electroshock machines, drug
producers, the military and weapons manufacturers, the police and undertakers, to
name the ones leading the list, feed themselves only from a "dangerous
environment." Even individuals and family members can be merchants of
chaos.
It is in their interest to have their environment appear as threatening as
possible, only then can they make a profit. Their income, their force and their
power climb in direct proportion to the degree of threat which they can
introduce into people's environments. With this threat, they can coerce people,
without question, for income, expenses, money circulation and wages. Those are
the merchants of chaos. The presume that if they do not produce it, sell and
buy it, they would be poor.
For example, we talk about "good press." Does anything like that
exist today? Go through a newspaper once. Is there anything good on the front
page? You're much more likely to find murder, sudden death, fights and
catastrophes. And although that is bad enough, it is made more sensational so
that it appears even worse.
That is the cold-blooded product of a "dangerous environment."
People don't need this news, and if they needed it, then they need the facts,
not the unrest. But when one irritates enough people, that can also be used to
produce money. And that is the basic formula for blackmail. That is the way
newspapers are sold. Their force is great enough to bring in income. A
newspaper has to have chaos and confusion, a "newspaper report" has to
contain "conflict," they say. Therefore there is no good press.
There is only bad press everywhere. In a society where the merchants of chaos
reign, it is insane to look for "good press."
Let's take a look once what has to be done with the true story of Scientology in
order to make it into "a newspaper story" according to modern press
criteria. Conflict must be emphasized where there is none. Therefore the press
must invent conflict and disturbance.
[Scientology emblem]
Copyright 1985 by Scientology Duesseldorf. All rights reserved
Scientology
is an applied religious philosophy
Dianetics is a technology of mental
healing
We thank L. Ron Hubbard for the kind permission ...[end]
Scan of original German
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For their sales work, these FSMs receive a commission in the amount of 10
percent of all income that these new "started" people will spend
inside the organization. Certainly a lucrative lure, for Renate Helnwein, too.
Klaus Kempe was found on the list with Renate Helnwein, but down at twelfth
place. "Celebrity Center Duesseldorf" chief Adelheid Rech-Gesche was
down to a disappointing 31st place, as published by membership magazine "Dianetic
Post" edition 0985 on page 6.
Renate Helnwein recruiting new Scientologists!
Also in August 1987, Gottfried Helnwein again stayed for a little while at "Flag"
in Clearwater, Florida. He had also long been interested in buying some
suitable real estate there, in the pleasant vicinity of L. Ron Hubbard's Mecca
for Scientologists. Finally, in 1988, two and a half miles north of the
Scientology headquarters, he acquired a beach villa with his own strip of beach
and a boat dock on the Gulf Coast. However, he did not set up a studio there.
That was located next to the Scientology spaces back in Burgbrohl.
Both the private and the business relations of the Scientology Helnwein family
and Kempe continue unabated through the present day. Together with Renate, and
now and again with Gottfried Helnwein, people take courses in the Flag
headquarters founded by Hubbard, the Scientology Mecca in Clearwater on the Gulf
Coast of Florida with over 1,000 of the best trained Scientology staff and,
according to Hubbard, the "best auditors in the world," today spread
out among 14 buildings in all areas of "Hubbard City." For any
Scientologist, it is the greatest experience ever to be able to study at Flag,
Ron Hubbard's sanctuary. In 1995, the Scientologists celebrated their 20 year
anniversary of the existence of their "land base" in Clearwater.
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In the beginning of 1975, the Hubbard organization, after searching for years,
acquired their first building on location although it was rather run-down and
used as a hotel prior to that time, the Fort Harrison Hotel. A twelve story
building, the largest in Clearwater and directly in the center of the small
city, was renovated in "record time," primarily by a crew of more
than 100, composed exclusively of "conspicuous" members of the elite
Sea Org unit, the Scientology rehabilitation camp of the RPF, and opened amid
great interest by residents on December 15, 1975 not as a hotel, but as the new
top training site for worthy Scientologists in good standing.
Until 1987, "Flag" was the only place in the world in which the secret
advanced Scientology courses, the so-called "OT" courses V to VII were
offered. It was not until 1988 that the Hubbard organization released the OT
VIII course, and that today is still the highest step obtainable in Scientology
courses on the "Bridge to Total Freedom."
From that point in time in summer of 1988, the "OT VII" course, for
reasons of security, was offered solely on the "Freewinds," a luxury
cruise ship, freshly renovated at great material expense, on the waters of the
Caribbean. The Scientology management, under the leadership of Hubbard
successor, David Miscavige, financed the renovation of the ship primarily from
generous "donations" from over 1,000 OT VII graduates, all members of
the IAS who waited yearningly and greedily for the "release" of L. Ron
Hubbard's new "OT VII" creation, which, according to supreme guru
Hubbard, is the "first actual OT grade."
As of the end of 1995, close to 2,000 (!) wealthy Scientologists have attained
their "OT VIII" on the "Freewinds," among them, as of 1989,
Renate Helnwein and, as of 1994, her husband Gottfried Helnwein, as has recently
reported by a former Scientologist! Estimated total income for the Scientology
organization for the past eight years from these 2,000 "Operating Thetans
VIII," donated with pleasure of course, is over DM 1.2 billion! The entire
number of members of the Scientology organization's IAS, based on known
membership numbers worldwide, can be calculated at only 75,000 paying students.
Approximately 8,000 "paid" staff receive money from the organization
worldwide. In Germany, the number of members is about 6,000, of those about 80
people in "official" management functions inside the German
organization.
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"Take the cans" - Flag without End
The opening advertising paragraph of a written page of the Scientology
organization to advertise for visitors to Flag from various membership
magazines goes:
"'Take the cans!' It is time to begin your session with one of the
world's best auditors: a flubless Flag Auditor! You will find yourself in the
hands of staff who are truly interested in your well-being. Whatever you need in
order to begin your journey to OT - at Flag you can obtain it from one of the
world's best auditors!"
Gottfried Helnwein and his wife Renate are not the only ones who have frequently
"taken the cans" since 1982 under Florida's sun in Clearwater, in the
Mecca of the Scientologists. Also several of their earlier Viennese friends
from their former ZKK days in the early '70s, like Gottfried's partner at the
time, Angelika Blaskovich ("Source" magazine regularly publishes the
names of all participants of Flag courses - Source 49 - 1984) in the same year
as Gottfried H., and the American singer and song instructor, Amanda Ambrose
(Source 57 - 1988), a friend of the family for decades.
Her husband, Fenton E. Jones, in any case a Scientologist and American attorney
with law offices in Chicago, has managed a trust for the Helnwein couple since
the late 1980s in a secret trust account with the Sun Bank in Tampa, Clearwater
branch. This account may have been used for more than just Helnwein's payments
of his financial costs for his villa on 300 Palm Bluff Street in north
Clearwater. In addition, for his private business, Helnwein himself uses the
First National Bank of Florida of Tampa, also from the Clearwater branch.
And also his most important studio assistant for many years, Rudi Kruspel
(Source 63 - 1988 - "L11 Rundown"), who left Helnwein's castle studio
at the end of 1987, bound for Florida for a long-term visit to Florida after he
had moved from Vienna with him in late 1984 to Burgbrohl, stayed for a while in
sunny Florida. The same way with his Viennese ZKK co-organizers Fritz Fuhrmann
and Robert Schoeller, graduated from the shamefully expensive "L 12 Rundown"
(Fritz F. - Source 68 - 1989) course with terrible difficulties, and, as the
case may be, the notorious "PTS SP Course Part One" (Robert S. -
Source 70 - 1989).
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"Take the cans!"
Gottfried Helnwein also took the cans
(from: "Source" 62, page 24)
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Robert Schoeller -
The Helnwein Knowledge Report - 1985
Robert Schoeller also went to Clearwater in 1991, but he went there to take the "Dynamic
Sort-out Assessment" course (Source 82 -1991). In fall 1995, Schoeller
even appeared as a "Cornerstone Club Member," as a money donor, in
edition 6 of the official magazine "The Cornerstone" for the so-called
"Super Power Expansion Project" in Clearwater, Florida. That project
was about a "quite extraordinary" Hubbard course which was then being
offered for the first time. Because of small imperfections in the "FSO
Delivery Building," the building in which that course was being offered,
it had to be renovated, and that had to come from the "donations" of
the knowledge-hungry Scientologists who would absolutely love to take the
course. For that purpose, a fund-raising department was created with its own "Chief
Fund Raiser." Today the building has still not been erected...
Further evidence of Helnwein's activities inside the Scientology organization
is provided by a personal "Knowledge Report" of September 25, 1985
which he transmitted from Burgbrohl to Clearwater, to the criminal investigative
officer of Hubbard's Flag headquarters. His victim, in that case, was one of his
good old Viennese friends, painter Robert Schoeller and his female companion,
Gudrun.
This Stasi-like report exposed Helnwein as an unscrupulous traitor of the most
evil sort. He wrote it thirteen years before announcing to Alfred Biolek on
German television in November 1996 that he had "taken a few courses in
Scientology out of curiosity." From the text of the secret document, the
original of which can be found in a Hamburg safety deposit box, can be clearly
seen how very involved Helnwein was for decades in the courses of control and
denunciation. Scientology critic Renate Hartwig compares a "Knowledge
Report" to a report of the former Stasi secret police on critics of the GDR
regime. The context reveals Helnwein as having lied for years about his actual
past.
Gottfried Helnwein wrote from Burgbrohl, "To the Public MAA (Master at Arms
is a "police" officer, an administrator of a military court - author)
Flag Land Base (Clearwater). Copy to Robert Schoeller and Gudrun.
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Helnwein - Knowledge Report
Re: Robert Schoeller and Gudrun
Burgbrohl, September 25, 1985
Two weeks ago, my friend Robert Schoeller visited me here in my home, his 2nd
Dy. Gudrun was with him.
Before Robert brought Gudrun to Flag, she was very
antagonistic against SCN. (That was approximately one year ago, I wrote an
Knowledgereport to the FSO MAA at that time). Robert stayed at the FSO
approximately one year, went up to OT 3 and had lots of winns, he worked also on
the Restaurations Projekt.
Gudrun at the same time did almost not move on the bridge and as Robert told me
at his last visit here, she is still uncertain about SCN. (per Robert she has
still friends which are against SCN.) Robert old me further that Gudrun met a
blown case 12 Auditor in N.Y. who told her that SCN is bullshit.
Robert told me further that Gudrun knows the OT 3 data. I asked him "who
told her?" he said "I forgot to ask, I don't know."
Gudrun also enturbulated my area here, when she stayed with Robert, - without
asking me, she tried to take one of my staff members off post, to do a job for
her, without asking me.
this is ok
Gottfried Helnwein
The end of a relationship - thanks to Helnwein?
In the view of Gudrun Derlin, the female former companion of Schoeller,
Helnwein's "Knowledge Report" led to Schoeller sending to her from the
Flag headquarters in early 1986 the "disconnection from Gudrun", can
also be called "throwing her out of the organization."
Gudrun Derlin on the matter: "The Scientology Octopus intended to ruin
my love and life relationships and gave my male friend an alternative: 'Either
you get rid of your girlfriend or you must leave the organization.' My friend,
as a good Scientologist, decided in favor of the sect. As far as I know, he is
still in today."
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Helnwein betrayed his friend Robert Schoeller and his girlfriend in 1985
One year later, Schoeller had to separate from the girl, Gudrun.
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"His decision put my life in absolute chaos. I had the feeling my
heart had been torn to pieces and shortly thereafter I went into a Florida swamp
to throw myself .... in fall 1986. I was able to complete the final separation
from Robert Schoeller in friendship, and from that point on I worked again as an
independent art agent in Vienna...."
Gudrun Derlin
How did the relationship to Schoeller turn out? Gudrun Derlin continued in her
autobiographical review in March 1997: "Easter, 1982. At 30 years old I
met Robert, a highly gifted Viennese painter in Hamburg. Start of a romantic
relationship and a decision to manage him. Move to Vienna. Whirlwind life out
of suitcases. Residences in Austria and the USA. Introduced R.S. to Viennese
high society and Hollywood circles. Visited castles and large ranches. We were
looked upon as a couple of everyone's dreams, possibly similar to Claudia
Schiffer and David Copperfield. That exacerbated problems in the relationship.
R.S. could no longer hide the fact that he was a Scientologist. He was drawn
into Scientology in the early 1970s during his study at the Academy of Fine Art
in Vienna by Gottfried Helnwein, his Viennese painter friend. He got acquainted
with him and other celebrity Scientologists, like jazz pianist Chick Corea, the
Munich artist Waki Zoellner, illustrator Fritz Hechelmann and Bernhard Paul, the
director of the Roncalli Circus. Bernhard the Clown is close friends with
Gottfried Helnwein, but will probably not become a Scientologist of strong
conviction. ... My friend requires me to take Scientology courses so that I can
"better understand" Scientology. For tactical reasons I go along with
him and go through the "regression therapy" into "other lives."
I always experienced "earlier" adventures: one time, as an ape, I was
squatting in a tree watching cave men, another time I was flying in a space
capsule through the cosmos, visiting alien planets. I became aware that if I
were to give credence to these experiences, then I would be snagged on the hooks
of Scientology. Suggestions are made to the adherents of Scientology that all
personal problems, like weakness in character or an inferiority complex, can be
solved with the help of course in which you "study" Scientology and by
a hypnotic regression technique called "auditing." Besides that,
people are told they will receive "power over MEST (matter, energy, space
and time)." Since that, of course, never has lasting success, and the
fantasies, as it is known, have no bounds, you remain dependent upon the
organization. A person allegedly can change himself only with the aid of
Scientology. The organization has an answer for everything and is always right.
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It plays the role of God for those dependent upon it. ... Scientologists really
only receive power over other Scientologists, within a given sphere of "higher
levels" they also develop magical abilities and establish contact with "Thetans,"
translated that means "spirits." Those are then "saved" in a
spiritualistic manner by "auditing." Staunch Scientologists audit
ghosts several hours a day! Their own "body Thetans" and many others
... Scientology goes completely along with the zeitgeist and all the other
esoteric teachings whose core beliefs state, more or less: "You yourself
are God, you only have to find Him (again) in yourself." This seductive
thought is as old as humanity. ... I started to do some research on the
organization, in California, in Florida and New York. Delivery of confidential
material (the OT3 material and more) to opposing organizations and "Spiegel"
magazine in Hamburg. ... Up to this point in time, my life's companion had
spent about half a million marks on Scientology. ... I stayed for over a year as
a "celebrity" in "Flag" in the Fort Harrison Hotel in
Clearwater, Florida, the Scientologists' headquarters. In my research, I met
people in the USA who had broken with Scientology, which, with long-term
Scientologists, is very seldom the case. ...
Shortly thereafter Gudrun, together with her friend, visited Helnwein at his
castle in Burgbrohl. The end of the story has already been told.
Gudrun Derlin did an in-depth analysis of her experience with Helnwein:
"For me it was characteristic that Helnwein often let himself be seen
in military garb. It was clearly visible to even a neutral observer that there
were two parts to his true presence: his sympathy for Fascism along with his
compulsion to hide things by means of diversionary measures. It is similar to
the decades he has spent hiding his completely bald head under various
long-haired, black wigs. As Robert told me, Helnwein lost all his hair, which he
was so proud of, within a short period of time in the mid '70s. The reason for
that was said to have been an auditing session gone wrong. He didn't want to
say anything more about it. The goal of Helnwein, the PR genius, has been and
still is to become world-famous, no matter how, as I have often heard from his
own lips during supper over at his place. One analyzes his "shock
pictures," behind which a piece of Scientology ideology also lurks for the
purpose of gaining influence for Scientology as a public opinion leader.
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Reichelt, 1997 - Page 184
When I met Helnwein, he was a radical, dedicated disciple of the Hubbard
teachings. His language was always staunchly, resolutely 'pro-Scientology' and
against the 'aberrated (crazy) rest of the world,' Scientology opponents in
particular! One of his favorite words, for example, was 'merciless.' He
suffered from a strong inferiority complex and hoped to be able to build himself
back up with Scientology. It was through him that my friend, Robert Schoeller,
was brought 'on-lines' in the 1970s in Vienna, that means he was recruited into
Scientology. Helnwein is not a victim, but a perpetrator!"
Helnwein's L-10 Course in Flag
In 1990 at Flag, Gottfried Helnwein's artist comrade-in-arms, not only in one of
his many art operations in 1987 in Bremen, but also the translator of a William
Burroughs' text in Helnwein's "Faces" collection of photographs which
appeared in 1992, Swiss author Tobias Leutenegger, stage name "Tobias C.
Biancone," graduated the comprehensive, multiple-week "L-10 Rundown"
course, which alone costs over DM 70,000, with Renate Helnwein. Gottfried
Helnwein also took the notorious "L-10 Rundown" course at about the
same time as his Swiss artist friend. This course is reserved exclusively for
the Scientology top elite.
Bremen and Tobias Biancone (Leutenegger) - 1987
At 7:30 p.m. on September 5, 1987 in Bremen, an art spectacle called "The
Sub-Human" was staged by Helnwein in the Bremen Art Auditorium. This was
the artistic highlight of 1987 in Bremen. A new word was even created for it -
"Exhibition Opera" - which was supposed to get across the idea that
that the Helnwein performance was a completely new drive in the direction of "total
art work." By using "Opera," Helnwein, the Scientology
organizer, and his friend and author Tobias Biancone (Leutenegger) were
referring to the opera that had been reserved mostly for the contemporary currents of
the other arts in the past decades. The "Opera" was a big public
success and the media outdid themselves. Two days later, the "Weser-Kurier,"
a Bremen daily newspaper, reported on the event in its criticism, "The
Nazis and the Cattle":
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"Rarely is Bremen put in the picture with major promotional expenditure for
a privately organized art event. ... Helnwein has attained a certain degree of
fame and notoriety in the international art scene in that he has, in recent
times, been going against his own image... 'Exhibition Opera' - that is a
conglomerate of various elements, of pictures, music, performance,
improvisational theater and video, which work together to form a media
spectacle which is both optically and acoustically impressive. Helnwein was
also engaged in like manner with the trivial and subtle aesthetics of National
Socialism and tried self-revelation using their own means, like when he
confronted the audience with the ideological concepts of National Socialism,
such as the presentation of the 'seat forms of the higher and the lower races'
or the German repertoire of songs at the time, in tormented penetration over
five monitors. Often it was only broken snips of words and pictures that
hammered rhythmically out of the screens, accompanied by a low droning,
increasing to a roar, sound of the Patchwork group."
A composer born in 1956 in Vienna was responsible for the "music,"
George E. Buigner, who had founded a video production company one year previous
in 1986, "George Buigner and Detleff Foullois." In 1987 he opened the
"Pyramid Music" company in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich. His partner,
Detleff Foullois, was one of the most important Scientologists in Germany at the
time besides Helnwein. In 1990 he outfitted the German Scientology offices with
computer equipment.
"While this was going on, two cooks, dressed in German military
uniforms were carrying out a pseudo-religious mess ritual at the podium. It
closed with explosive sound effects - then silence: soldiers with blackened
faces pulled five messy, clopping cows behind them into the hall, were
photographed with flashbulbs, then led them out again. End of the presentation.
The cattle were guilty. And the Nazis knew that, too. Perhaps that was their
reason for preferring paintings which had cows in them which, today, are stored
under lock and key with other National Socialist paintings under state
supervision in a warehouse of the Munich chief finance directorate. Five of
those 'cow pictures' were lent out to the 'Exhibition Opera.' Woe to him who
likes them!"
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 186
The Sub-Human
The "Bild" newspaper of the same day, September 7, 1987, viewed it
somewhat more pliantly. It reported the event in bold letters: "Cowpies
on Stage: Six cows and steaming cowpies - all a part of the premiere of the
Exhibition Opera 'The Sub-Human' in the art auditorium. A member of the audience
was outraged, 'Garbage!' The controversial Viennese artist has brought about a
cultural scandal. He hung up Nazi pictures and brought cows up to dirty the
art auditorium. Helnwein also wanted to use the art of the Third Reich for his
'Sub-Human' Opera. So he dug five old farm pictures from the 1930s out of the
Munich archives (scenes in oil of cows on farms). The audience of about 100
(40 DM admission) wrinkled their noses as the stage of the art auditorium
turned into an evil smelling 'soup.' That was accompanied by flickering,
soundless segments of movies without any connection whatsoever on six video
screens. People in gray cloaks and Nazi caps led in six cows. The aisle to the
stage was plastered with steaming cowpies. The horror story lasted for 100
minutes. Helnwein said, 'I'm looking for a new art form.' A visitor said,
'Garbage. That has nothing to do with art. Helnwein is ruining his reputation.
Rightwing radical groups sounded out Bremen before the election. Hanging up
Nazi pictures is tactless.' Bremen business people sponsored the event by
contributing more than 100,000 German marks. Art auditorium director Salzmann
said, "That was a very distressing scene when the cows came in - but an
interesting project. Bremen must keep itself open to experiments in art, no
matter what people think of it.'"
Helnwein's consultant, Peter Reichelt, especially enjoyed this "scandal,"
since he was directly responsible for the "combination" of pictures
and cows within this community project "Sub-human" in the scope of
his employment as consultant for Helnwein. Even today, it is surely the most
spectacular and, above all, a realized, Helnwein project.
In 1988, Helnwein and Biancone also planned a similar spectacle on the former
Nuernberg grounds of the Reichsparteitag, but which did not take place,
however, because of a lack of sponsors.
In 1989, Helnwein even sold his Scientology comrade in Clearwater a portion of
his estate, a small residence with a garden, right next door to his villa. Up
until the time Helnwein bought it back in 1996, they were next-door neighbors,
the Helnweins and the Biancones.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 187
In issue 217 of the "Auditor" Scientology magazine from 1987, Tobias
Leutenegger from Bern, alias Tobias Biancone, wrote in the "Letters to the
Editor" column: "Dear editor, what a joy to find an old photo of
me (from earlier Scientology times in England) in issue 214. I can still
remember exactly how I sat by the river back then and wrote a poem. How times
have changed since then! Where am I today? After I reached 'OT III,' I traveled
to Flag in Clearwater and took all the courses there up to the 'New OT VIII'
prepatory course to become a 'New OT VIII' on the virgin voyage of the
'Freewinds' ship. What else? After the 'SHSBC,' I still was constantly going up
the Training Route and had an ungodly amount of training as an auditor. I also
went further up the 'Bridge' on the Administrative side. Recently I took two
'ethics courses" for the first time ('Intro to Scientology Ethics' and
'Ethics Specialist'), Staff Status 0/I/II and then Exec Status One.
I am currently also improving as an author. I have just written a piece that is
supposed be produced next Spring and a movie script besides.
'Saint Hill' (one of the two Scientology European headquarters) is also, above
anything else, the home of the 'Saint Hill Special Briefing Course' (SHSBC) for
me, where one can 'train' and 'audit.' It is a place where I can feel the
presence and the spirit of L. Ron Hubbard. I am thankful that I can be there
until I meet him sometime personally in the future. All love, Tobias Biancone."
For the "SHSBC" course, the "auditors" at Saint Hill,
England, need at least 22 weeks without interruption, from 8 in the morning to 7
in the evening! In order to participate in this course, one must already be a
trained "Auditor IV" and "Clear."
But world-famous film star and comrade in faith John Travolta has also gone the
route of "OT III" in Clearwater (Source 78 - 1991) and the "Hubbard
Key to Life Course" (Source 93 - 1994)
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Reichelt, 1997 - Page 188
along with his actress colleague Kelly Preston (L-11 Rundown and OT II - Source
93), as well as Elvis Presley's daughter, Renate Helnwein's friend and Michael
Jackson's ex-wife, Lisa Marie did, from "New OT I" (Source 82 - 1991)
to "New OT V" (Source 94 -1994).
Julia Migenes, old-time Scientologist and top advertisement who was under the
personal care of Hubbard in the 1960s and Helnwein in the '70s -
comrade-in-arms from the ZKK days in Vienna - went to Clearwater in 1993 for
the "Int By Dynamics" course (Source 88 - 1993).
Also one of Helnwein's intimate acquaintances and "New OT VI" Farhad
Raschidi (Source 38 - 1982 and Source 73 - 1990 "New Hubbard Professional
TR Course"), a dentist who was practicing in Berlin, to whom Helnwein
publicly expressed extraordinary gratitude for his "great support,"
visited the Flag organization. Dr. Raschidi, just as much as Renate and
Gottfried, was a generous "Patron" donor for Scientology. Several
members of his immediate family are also found on the official list of donors in
the U.S. Scientology member magazine "Impact" issue 39 from 1991.
Under the "R's" in the column of German patrons are: Arian, Daria,
Farhad and his wife Heidi Raschidi, a donation from each of them of at least
$40,000!
Under the "H's" in the same edition, what a coincidence, his good
friends Renate and Gottfried Helnwein are listed as "Patrons."
Neither Helnwein's friend Marieta (the lessor of the Helnwein castle in
Burgbrohl), nor her husband, are missing from the list.
In his book which appeared in 1989, "Self-made Men and Millionaires,"
author and Scientologist Mehler asked the dentist, Dr. Farhad Raschidi, "I
have learned from well-informed circles, as they are so nicely called, that you
have donated about 300,000 German marks to an organization (by that is meant
Scientology) which works for human rights and for improvement in various areas?
Does this illustrate your concept of money?" His answer: "The 300,000
DM is an over-exaggeration; it was only 295,000 DM... I think it is right and
economical to put a major portion of my income at the disposal of constructive
organizations." In that regard, Dr. Raschidi is similar to his friend
Helnwein.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 189
The "Patrons" column for Austria again includes Helnwein's friend, OT
colleague, and musical comrade-in-arms from the ZKK in the mid-70s, Fritz
Spohn, and painter Robert Schoeller, Helnwein's co-organizer of the ZKK, as
major donors. Furthermore there is the author Tobias Leutenegger, alias Tobias
Biancone from Switzerland, with whom Helnwein carried out several of his art
projects in recent years and who, since 1989, is his a next-door neighbor in
Clearwater, Florida.
All these people belong to the exclusive, worldwide circle of about 1,400 "Patrons"
today, who, since the introduction of the "Patron Status" have "sacrificed,"
between 1985 and today, the unbelievable sum of 1 billion German marks (!) to
the American Scientology membership organization IAS - without getting any
services in return. 1,000 million German marks in the "war chest" of
David Miscavige and Co. to shut down their opponents worldwide. A budget which
is truly worthy of a medium-sized Ministry of War...
Also on station in Clearwater at the same time as the Helnwein family was the
director of the Duesseldorf "Celebrity Center," Adelheid Rech-Gesche
(Source 51 - 1985), whom Gottfried Helnwein, according to his own "sworn
affirmation" of May 15, 1992, did not meet in Clearwater, Florida, but in
Burgbrohl. Interestingly enough, by 1985, the three close "Patron"
friends, Renate Helnwein, Marieta Kempe, Helnwein's landlord of his castle in
1984, and Adelheid Rech-Gesche, Celebrity Center chief from Duesseldorf were in
the same Flag Scientology course, the "False Purpose Rundown Auditing"
in Clearwater, Florida.
Helmuth Bloebaum - Reiner Weber - Claudia Kauer - Edith Buechele
The connection between Helnwein and the DSA/OSA intelligence agency
German "Patron" Helmuth Bloebaum, official President of "Scientology
Germany" and thereby also the boss of the DSA/OSA, the German branch of the
international Scientology intelligence agency, and several years later in the
summer of 1992 the one who provided Helnwein with an "alibi of innocence"
by saying that he was still "not at all a Scientologist" before
several German courts, also participated in various intensive training and
continuing education courses (Source 57 and 60 - 1988) since 1988 in Helnwein's
secondary Clearwater residence, the "Flag Land Base," the Scientology
Mecca, just as did Helnwein.
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In his "sworn affirmation" of May 11, 1992, he testified before the
Coblenz State Court on behalf of his friend Helnwein as follows: "My
name is Helmuth Bloebaum. I have been employed ... without interruption in the
legal office of the Scientology Church Germany. I am well-informed about the
origin and expansion of the Scientology Church in the German-speaking world
because the establishment of new communities, associations or centers, as a
rule, must, even today, be carried out with the coordination of the legal office
of Scientology Church Germany, Inc., for instance, in order to obtain an
association charter and other miscellaneous legal formalities. On the basis of
my employment in the legal office, just as on the basis of my assignments as
the President of the German Church, I have come repeatedly into contact with
the Mother Church, the Church of Scientology International, Inc. with its
offices in Los Angeles, in the USA. Since 1983, I have regularly visited the
Mother Church almost once a year. My last stay of this sort lasted from January
to May 1990 in Los Angeles.
The headquarters of the Scientology Church, that means the center, the
administrative and legal seat, as well as the church management of the Mother
Church, namely the Church of Scientology International, Inc., is located in Los
Angeles, California. We are in contact almost daily via fax, telephone or telex
with staff of the above-named Mother Church. The offices of the 'Church of
Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc.', a daughter church of the Mother
Church in the USA, is located in Clearwater, Florida."
In 1992, Bloebaum went on to affirm that Scientology Church Germany, Inc. had
never intended, planned or tried, and now the special captiousness, 'to erect an
establishment ... in the vicinity of the castle in Burgbrohl."
No, not in the vicinity, but right in the middle of, and that was back in 1984!
There is no question today about the fact.
Bloebaum also took special care to help his long-term friend Helnwein out of a
jam a year later, as the rumors abounded about Helnwein's membership in the
Scientology organization. In May 1993, Helnwein once again fell into the
crossfire of the media. Investigative journalists who had been at his heels for
years for the purpose of uncovering his lies reported at that time, again in
accordance with reality:
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-
Helnwein is a "Patron."
-
He had donated a minimum of $40,000 to Scientology's "war chest."
-
His listing as a "Patron" in "Impact" magazine was correct
and
-
He is a "Class 4 Auditor."
Helnwein urgently needed new "testimony" from the German organization
that all of this was not so and as "proof" of the righteousness of his
claims which he had presented to the public. Helnwein desperately sought ways
out of the situation which was slowly becoming precarious for him. Above all,
he needed the "OK" from the Scientology management in Los Angeles for
his strategy of an "artist unjustly accused of being a Scientologist"
to fit in the long-term planning of the OSA management under David Miscavige and
Kurt Weiland for the open reproach against German officials for alleged
discrimination against Scientologists in Germany.
On July 14, 1993, Helnwein's favorite attorney in matters of Scientology,
Christian Reinking from Duesseldorf, surely advised in advance by telephone,
sent a 2-page letter to the regular attorney of "Scientology Church
Germany, Inc., Wilhelm Bluemel in Munich. Helnwein very quickly made the public
aware of the contents of that letter in which he made diverse "rectifications"
and gave written notice to the Scientology organization in Munich. A sensation?
Nothing. This, in turn, was just more of the Scientology disinformation
campaign of the worst sort which Helnwein had been staging perfectly since 1991
in Germany.
After the five-day time limit set by his attorney Reinking to impart an "explanation"
went by without a response, attorney Bluemel was given until Monday, July 19,
1993 at 12 noon to answer Helnwein "in due form" - apparently
Scientology Germany President Bloebaum did not find the letter so urgent at
first - Helnwein slowly got nervous and impatient. The "official"
stage obviously was not working so properly. Therefore Helnwein retreated to
the OSA/DSA he was used to - the stage of the intelligence service and their
kind of news transmission.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 192
After the time limit had run out, Gottfried Helnwein, described by a
high-ranking former Scientologist as an "OSA FSM" (Unofficial staff
member of the OSA), then sent a secret message through the OSA computer in
Duesseldorf to HELMUTH BLOEBAUM in Munich and EDITH BUECHELE - ED OSA EUROPE in
Copenhagen. Edith Buechele sits in the headquarters of Scientology Europe in
Copenhagen as the OSA chief with the title "Executive Director" of the
OSA intelligence agency in Europe; her husband from Switzerland, Klaus Buechele,
is the representing Director of the worldwide OSA headquarters in Los Angeles
and both of them are under the supreme management of another one of Helnwein's
friends, the Austrian Kurt Weiland. Today, Mike Rinder is the chief of OSA INT.
Helnwein word for word [first in German, then the translation]:
"Dear Terminal,
- Ich brauche dringend die Erklaerungen von Euch, die mein Anwalt
bei Bluemel angefordert hat.
-
Wir muessten dringend ein Meeting machen, um ein paar wichtige Sachen zu
klaeren.
-
Warum habt ihr eigentlich den Lehrer T. Gottschalk aus der Sweiz oeffentlich
geoutet? Diese Info hat nur dem enemy genuetzt.
Gruss
G.H."
"Dear Terminal,
- I urgently need the statements from you which my attorney had asked
Bluemel for.
-
We urgently need to have a meeting to clear up a few important matters
-
Why did you really publicly out the teacher T. Gottschalk from Switzerland? That
info only helped the enemy
greetings
G.H."
You won't find better proof of Helnwein's false statements to the German
public when he said: "I am not a Scientologist, I am not a 'Patron,' I am
not an 'auditor,' I am not an 'Operating Thetan,' I only took a couple of
courses in Vienna in the early 1970s" and much more. That brings Helnwein's
house of lies crashing down, no ifs, ands or buts!
Next page: OSA secret agent Helnwein wrote to the OSA
headquarters Europe in Copenhagen, as well as German OSA central in Munich -
1993.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 193
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
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The Helnwein Order
In regard to Helnwein's item 1.: Shortly after sending off his secret
message, his so urgently desired seal of approval arrived, as ordered, on July
7, 1993 - "Statement" from "President" Helmuth Bloebaum of
the Scientology Church Germany, Inc. Bloebaum said, "... On the basis
of my knowledge of the matter, I hereby verify, without qualification, that Mr.
Helnwein does not hold any post nor does he serve in any other capacity in any
Scientology Church, Mission or other organization of the Church. He is not
employed nor does he do volunteer work for the Scientology Church."
But that was not good enough. Two days later, on July 29, 1993, Helnwein got
another letter from Bloebaum. Under "Subject: Your attorney's letter,"
he affirmed for Helnwein, "We admit that the use of your portrait
photos and accompanying text occurred without your permission. We obligate
ourselves in the future to use neither graphic presentation nor text from you
for advertising purposes." Even that was not concrete enough for
Helnwein. Therefore Bloebaum even had to write a third (!) letter. Under "To
whom it may concern" he wrote the following on August 19, 1993, "From
the research I have undertaken in all official Scientology churches in Europe
and the USA, I have come to the clear and unequivocal conclusion that Gottfried
Helnwein has not graduated from nor obtained any training for the so-called "Class
IV auditor." The same thing was verified by all posts. The report which
states the opposite in a membership magazine of the Scientology Church in the
USA is definitively untrue and is based on an editorial oversight. signed,
Helmuth Bloebaum."
Even repeating the lie multiple times could not turn it into truth ...
On January 14, 1997, the Scientology headquarters itself in the USA verified for
the Deutsche Presse Agentur in Washington, "Helnwein is a Scientologist."
So those kind of "verifications" from Bloebaum quickly turn into
wastepaper when even the headquarters of the Scientology organization publicly
names Helnwein a "Scientologist." The Moor was apparently just doing
his duty ...
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 195
Helnwein - The OSA-FSM and his contact to the OSA - 1993
In regard to Helnwein's item 2: In the time that followed, Helnwein got the
meetings he wanted with OSA's top people, all of them Sea Org members - The Sea
Org is Scientology's elite unit which was established by Hubbard in 1967 as his
private army; Helnwein's eldest son, Cyril, has also been a member of the Sea
Org since 1991 in Clearwater, Florida, because of various "important
matters," according to Helnwein.
An intensive strategy meeting followed as early as July 27, 1993 with Kurt
Weiland, the worldwide intelligence agency chief of OSA. Among other things,
that meeting dealt with the content of a "Pro-Helnwein" interview for
the Ariman publishing house in Freiburg. It then appeared in Fall 1993 in issue
43 of the "Ketzerbrief" under the title "Depraved Art."
One day later, on July 28, 1993, that was followed by a secret meeting with
attorney Bluemel, the legal advisor of the Scientology Church in Germany, under
the leadership of Helmuth Bloebaum. The result of this meeting was then
Bloebaum's pro-Helnwein "testimony" of July 29, 1993.
Helnwein was said to be having a panic attack at the thought that his undercover operations for
OSA in Germany and in the USA in summer 1993 could become public. Therefore he
urgently and immediately needed the concentrated help of the Sea Org OSA
headquarters in Los Angeles, with the best PR people, "cover-up"
specialists in order to stave off, at any cost, further risk of calamity in the
form of a detailed expose story about Helnwein's true story in Scientology.
Successfully. Until today, those facts remained hidden, thanks to OSA
International in Los Angeles, under its director of the time from Austria, Kurt
Weiland, who yielded to his successor, Michael "Mike" Rinder in 1995.
After that Weiland was only his representative. In spite of a "master
performance" by Weiland.
Helnwein's Wish: Thomas Gottschalk should suffer longer
In regards to Helnwein's item 3: Thomas Gottschalk - the talk show MC was outed
as an alleged Scientologist on July 12, 1993 on SAT-1. "Bild"
newspaper gratefully took up the "scandal" and Gottschalk's alleged
membership in the sect was in the German headlines in the days that followed;
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
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until Thomas Gottschalk appeared on the cover of "Stern" magazine,
issue 30 of 1993. "Stern" did some thorough research and found that
there existed a Gottschalk namesake in the 75,000 members worldwide (!). This
information as to mistaken identity had even been told to the "Stern"
editors by the German Scientology organization in Munich. It was quickly found
out that the real "Scientologist Thomas Gottschalk" was a high school
teacher in Switzerland, whose residence was a farm house in Thun. The TV hoax
of the year was exposed and the "real" Thomas Gottschalk was
reinstated, thanks to the informative assistance of Bloebaum in Munich. But one
leading member of the Scientology organization was not satisfied with this "outing"
of the special kind - Gottfried Helnwein from Burgbrohl.
If it would have been up to him, Helnwein would have let the media have at the
TV talk show host for months as a "celebrity Scientologist." But
Bloebaum had simply checked off his list and quickly got a receipt.
As Helnwein wrote to the OSA headquarters in Munich and Copenhagen at the end of
July 1993, "Why did you really publicly out the teacher Gottschalk from
Switzerland? That info served only the enemy (enemy, that is all
non-Scientologists! - the author). greetings, Gottfried Helnwein."
This is where Helnwein's true character, using lies and treason for the
organization, comes to the surface. How often had Gottschalk previously
invited Helnwein to his show's stage. How amicable were the interchanges
between the two, even after Gottschalk was so unpleasantly caught in the headlines in
July 1993. Gottschalk had no idea that he had a "field staff member"
of the OSA on his broadcasts. How could he. If it would have been up to
Helnwein, Gottschalk would have stayed caught the gruesome situation for a
longer time. He surely would have been "done for" in Germany for a
long time.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 197
Helnwein and the visit to Carl Barks - 1991
Gottschalk was not the only one Helnwein was playing a crooked game with, each
according to the situation. Helnwein's closest consultant since 1987, Mannheim
art promoter Peter Reichelt, worked together with Helnwein to implement the "Idols
Project." Carl Barks, the famous cartoonist and inventor of such famous
Disney character like Uncle Dagobert, "Gustav Gans" and "Daniel
Duesentrieb," was Helnwein's greatest role model since childhood.
In February 1991, through his agent Reichelt, Helnwein submitted an offer for a
limited, signed sale edition of a photo portrait of Carl Barks which Helnwein
had prepared from a visit to Barks' house in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA in 1990,
and told him besides that Helnwein was planning a museum exhibition with Barks'
works in Europe. In spring 1991, Helnwein met with Barks another time in order
to discuss the project at hand.
On May 7, 1991, Barks then wrote Reichelt, Helnwein's agent, a letter whose
content Reichelt found incredible. Barks: "Dear Peter, ... I have not
replied because I am not sure what to say, and am wondering
who you really are. Your letter of Feb. 91 implied that you are an
associate of Gottfried Helnwein in the arranging of a museum show of my art
works in Germany. I showed your letter to Helnwein, and he dismissed it as
something I should ignore. Renate seems to have never heard of you. ..."
When Reichelt took this up with Helnwein, he only said, dryly, that Barks "must
have been mistaken." He had never said anything like that to him. At that
point in time, even though Reichelt had been Helnwein's close business partner
for four (!) years, Reichelt's trust that he had in Helnwein was somewhat
shaken. He felt like Helnwein was evading him. Nevertheless, Reichelt
continued to work with Helnwein for another three years...
That story is another good example of Helnwein's egotistical dealings with his
fellow human beings.
Helnwein & Scientology, Lies & Treason by Peter
Reichelt, 1997 - Page 198
Carl Barks wrote to Peter Reichelt on May 7, 1991
"... Renate seems to
have never heard of you! ..."
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Reichelt, 1997 - Page 198
Helnwein writes to Claudia Kauer / OSA Munich - 1993
Helnwein, the OSA-FSM from Austria residing in Germany, no longer felt safe
in his castle in summer 1993 and began to suffer from the first signs of
persecution complex. The difficulties he had gotten himself into with his lies
about his activities in Scientology were slowly rising over his head. He was
hardly able to do any "artistic" work. In 1993 he was simultaneously
involved in up to six court proceedings at a time with journalists, newspapers,
news magazines, television broadcasters and private persons. All anybody came
forward with was the truth, "Helnwein is a Scientologist." For saying
that they were promptly, ruthlessly sued.
With the help of the Bloebaum "testimony" and with the "sworn
affirmation" which was partly false on all points
"Children degraded to pill-poppers. For this picture and the picture on
page 1 the editors are thankful to Gottfried Helnwein. Internationally
acknowledged illustrator, renowned magazines (Spiegel, Stern, ZEIT magazines,
Time, Newsweek) publish his pictures on their covers."
A "Helnwein piece of art" advertises for Scientology
(from: "Der
Freiheitspiegel" 38, September 1988. SC Church Germany)
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This translation originated at http://cisar.org.
The url of the original translation was
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(Scientology got that account terminated when Joe Cisar published his thesis on the
press and public relations of L. Ron Hubbard.)
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