Oscar Kiss Maerth

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Oscar Kiss Maerth (* October 8, 1914 ; † August 26, 1990 ) also called "OKM" for short by friends. Born in Hungary, he was a British entrepreneur , philosopher and writer .

Life

Maerth studied the habits of people living close to nature in Southeast Asia. In doing so, he investigated questions about the cause of the origin and development of humans, their intelligence and their behavior.

Maerth in 1971 known as the author of The beginning was the end (English: The Beginning what the End ), a book he in the seclusion of 1,967 Buddhist monastery Tsin San in the Chinese province of Guangdong wrote. In this book he advocated the thesis that humans are descended from apes , which systematically ate the brains of their fellows for many thousands of years . As a result, her brain volume has gradually increased. Ultimately, man came into being through cannibalism.

“A monkey discovered that consuming fresh brains from other members of the same species increased sexual impulses. - He and his offspring got addicted and hunted for brains. - Only later did they notice that it made their intelligence grow. The result of this process is »Homo Sapiens«. "

- The beginning was the end , introduction to the chapter The Empty Skulls , page 39

The book The Beginning Was the End was first published in German and has been translated into eight languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Hungarian. In the book, Maerth also promised two subsequent volumes, for which, however, he could not find a publisher. Maerth had some brochures printed, including an 8-page manuscript The speech of Moltrasio (1974), which appeared in several languages, including German. He also wrote the speech of Assisi and an essay entitled Disarmament of Children - No War Toys in Children's Hands .

After emigrating to South America from Hungary, Maerth lived for many years in Hong Kong , later with his wife Elisabeth and three children on Lake Como in northern Italy , where he bought the Villa Passalacqua in Moltrasio . He bequeathed the villa and a large part of his property to the Omnia Mundi Foundation . The foundation was registered in 1975 with 50,000 Swiss francs as initial capital. The foundation was dissolved after the death of the founder.

The family's name hit the press in 1982 when it became known that his then 18-year-old daughter Gaby had been kidnapped on her way to school. She remained in the hands of the kidnappers for 149 days and was eventually released for a ransom. It was later reported that Italian police arrested the kidnappers, tried them and sentenced them to long prison terms. In this context, Oscar Kiss Maerth was portrayed as a British millionaire . At this point, however, he had bequeathed most of his fortune to his foundation.

effect

Maerth's ideas inspired the 1970s band Devo . In his youth, the philosopher Volker Zotz maintained close contacts with Oscar Kiss Maearth, whom, despite criticism, he respects as one of those who "have strayed so far from the normal that they see everything differently than most."

Works

  • The beginning was the end - humans came into being through cannibalism - intelligence is edible . Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf, Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-430-15460-X
  • The speech of Moltrasio . Omnia Mundi, 1974, available in many languages
  • The Assisi speech , Omnia Mundi, 1975
  • Disarmament of Children , Omnia Mundi, 1979

literature

  • Donna Kossy : Strange creations: aberrant ideas of human origins. Feral House, 2001, ISBN 978-0-922915-65-1
  • Volker Zotz: "Oscar Kiss Maerth or The Failed Buddhist World Revolution." Cause & Effect. Buddhism in Society and Life No. 45 (2003), p. 60 ( ISSN  1026-003X )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video documentation
  2. ↑ The blurb of the book The beginning was the end
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007C60FA/
  4. ↑ www.barclayweb.com (English)
  5. ^ Grand Hotel ( memento of March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed October 10, 2012
  6. ↑ Omnia Mundi - Foundation for Worldwide Nonviolent Collective Action for the Survival of All Races
  7. ↑ SHB. No.118, p. 1425, May 24, 1975
  8. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 25, 1982
  9. ↑ Theo Cateforis: Performing the Avant-Garde Groove: Devo and the Whiteness of the New Wave . In: American Music . 22, No. 4, pp. 564-588.
  10. ↑ The story of the meeting between Zotz and Kiss Maerth can be found in: Donna Kossy: Strange creations: aberrant ideas of human origins. Feral House, 2001, ISBN 978-0-922915-65-1
  11. ↑ Volker Zotz: "Oscar Kiss Maerth or The Failed Buddhist World Revolution." Cause & Effect. Buddhism in Society and Life No. 45 (2003), p. 60 ( ISSN  1026-003X )
personal data
SURNAME Maerth, Oscar Kiss
ALTERNATIVE NAMES OKM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entrepreneur and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1914
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1990