Heaven Is Being Here Now
by Richard von Fuchs
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Published on June 1, 2012. Fiction.
Failing at careers and marriage, Helmut von Kampen starts a New Age church in British Columbia to cash in on the spiritual disorientation of the West Coast. He attracts masses of discontent people but the organization grows out of his control.
Location: Hungary
Member Since: June 02, 2009
Richard von Fuchs
Biography
Dr. Richard von Fuchs was born in St. Louis, grew up in Niagara Falls, New York. He graduated from the University of Colorado and the University of Rhode Island, and much later from the University of Vienna. After teaching high school in Rhode Island and Ontario, he settled on Vancouver Island in 1971. The BC NDP (social democrats) hired him as an organizer and he became a Canadian citizen.
He had walk-on parts as a fisherman, tree planter, a radio and TV news announcer, including CBC Prince Rupert, retail music store owner and piano tuner. The habit of door knocking in political campaigns led to several years as a door to door salesman.
He trod the boards in amateur theatre and musicals in Courtenay, B.C in the 1970s, and then sang in some Folk Festivals and isolated bars. Twice went to Japan to teach English.
His former wife, Betty, took excellent care of him.
In 1990 he moved to Western Hungary to teach English at a forestry college and earned a PhD at the University of Vienna. Abandoning 33 years of atheism, he returned to the Lutheran church, and became a church janitor in Scarsdale, New York for 18 months, while teaching at Iona College. He was a Green party candidate in Ontario in 2OO3.
Returning to Europe, he is still employed University of West Hungary, settled in a bourgeois suburb of Sopron, Hungary. He has a Hungarian wife, Etelka, and a son Maximilian, born in 1996.
He had walk-on parts as a fisherman, tree planter, a radio and TV news announcer, including CBC Prince Rupert, retail music store owner and piano tuner. The habit of door knocking in political campaigns led to several years as a door to door salesman.
He trod the boards in amateur theatre and musicals in Courtenay, B.C in the 1970s, and then sang in some Folk Festivals and isolated bars. Twice went to Japan to teach English.
His former wife, Betty, took excellent care of him.
In 1990 he moved to Western Hungary to teach English at a forestry college and earned a PhD at the University of Vienna. Abandoning 33 years of atheism, he returned to the Lutheran church, and became a church janitor in Scarsdale, New York for 18 months, while teaching at Iona College. He was a Green party candidate in Ontario in 2OO3.
Returning to Europe, he is still employed University of West Hungary, settled in a bourgeois suburb of Sopron, Hungary. He has a Hungarian wife, Etelka, and a son Maximilian, born in 1996.
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Books
War as an Election Issue
by Richard von Fuchs
Price: $2.00 USD. 36950 words. Published on January 14, 2010. .
In 1964, President Johnson promised the electorate that he would not go to war; then shortly after his re-election he vigorously escalated the modest American effort in Vietnam into a major war. Do the voters in a democracy make significant policy decisions. Presdient Bush invaded Iraq without the electorate's approval.
Price: $2.00 USD. 36950 words. Published on January 14, 2010. .
In 1964, President Johnson promised the electorate that he would not go to war; then shortly after his re-election he vigorously escalated the modest American effort in Vietnam into a major war. Do the voters in a democracy make significant policy decisions. Presdient Bush invaded Iraq without the electorate's approval.
Little Red Riding Hood - A Musical for Children
by Richard von Fuchs
Price: $3.94 USD. 190 words. Published on October 14, 2009. Screenplays.
This is an opera telling the well known fairy tale with humorous modern asides. It explores common family problems, questioning authority, care for elderly relatives while meeting G.B. Shaw's primary goal for drama, to entertain. The original music will someday sound in elevators and shopping centers.
Price: $3.94 USD. 190 words. Published on October 14, 2009. Screenplays.
This is an opera telling the well known fairy tale with humorous modern asides. It explores common family problems, questioning authority, care for elderly relatives while meeting G.B. Shaw's primary goal for drama, to entertain. The original music will someday sound in elevators and shopping centers.
Treasure The Moment
by Richard von Fuchs
Price: $3.94 USD. 80570 words. Published on June 7, 2009. Fiction.
This is a story about alternatives and escaping the rat race.
Price: $3.94 USD. 80570 words. Published on June 7, 2009. Fiction.
This is a story about alternatives and escaping the rat race.