Kurt Forstner lives in Vienna, Austria. He is mainly interested in the humanities and has been contributing to Wikipedia since the summer of 2002.
Some of the texts he has started:
- Bachelor Mother
- Brief Encounter
- Dirty Weekend
- Dodge City
- The Lady Vanishes
- Love and Kisses
- The Magic Christian
- Mildred Pierce
- Notting Hill
- Percy
- A Shock to the System
- Sliver
- Suspicion
- The Sweet Hereafter
- Topkapi
- The Virgin Suicides
- Where Angels Fear to Tread
- About a Boy
- American Psycho
- The Children of Men
- England, England
- A Friend of the Earth
- The Human Stain
- The Jungle
- King Solomon's Carpet
- The Poisoned Chocolates Case
- A Severed Head
- Sick Puppy
- Sister Carrie
- The Tie That Binds
- The Tortilla Curtain
- A Vicious Circle
- What Makes Sammy Run?
- The Woman Who Did
- Adultery in literature
- Family life in literature
- Heroines in literature
- Losers in literature
- School and university in literature
- Tourism in literature
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- T.C. Boyle
- Amanda Craig
- Elisabeth of Austria
- Otto von Habsburg
- Carl Hiaasen
- Carl von Ossietzky
- Ludwig Quidde
- Günther Schifter
- Romy Schneider
- Sherry Turkle
- Rachel Weisz
- CALL
- Karoshi
- Millennialism
- Point of no return
- Technology assessment
- Tertium comparationis
- Utopianism
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity": I read this piece of advice some time ago on someone else's user page and, as this is Wikipedia territory, shamelessly copied it onto my own. I've been thinking about this sentence ever since, mainly in connexion with people I've come across in "real life". To me, it ties in with Kant's definition of Enlightenment. I'm still trying to figure out if it contradicts in any way his Categorical Imperative or his assertion that the world is highly cultivated and civilized but not yet moralized ("Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht", Siebenter Satz).
In Wikipedia, I receive relatively few comments on my talk page. People who know better than I have pointed out possible copyright violations concerning two photos I uploaded (Sharon Tate's and Winona Ryder's). Apart from that, three of the pages I started have been modified in a way that I can no longer identify with them: Millennialism, Remake, and Losers in literature (now renamed List of anti-heroes). However, in all three cases these changes were thoroughly discussed before they were actually carried out, so I can live with that. I cannot deny a certain addiction to this project, but I'm not going to give away how I scored at the Wikipediholic test. --KF
