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    Kim Jong IL. Ron Hubbard: A Bromance
    Kim Jong IL. Ron Hubbard: A Bromance
    Kim Jong IL. Ron Hubbard: A Bromance
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    Kim Jong IL. Ron Hubbard: A Bromance

    By Christian Maurer

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    In the shadow of personality cults, barbarity, absurdity and madness, very often the human beings behind the influential leaders disappears. The science fiction writer and founding father of the Scientology Church, L. Ron Hubbard, and the late Beloved Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, meet by accident in Venice in the fifties. Spontaneous sympathy soon turns into a very special, deep friendship. From petty juvenile jealousy over a bumpy lifetime with setbacks and frictions until their deaths, the uninhibited reader finds curiosity and banalities, mixed with serious world political decisions. Last but not least, the reading illuminates connections and facts which we now perceive as the legacies of these two men.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9783752871692
    Kim Jong IL. Ron Hubbard: A Bromance
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    Christian Maurer

    Professor (FH) Mag. Christian Maurer is Head of the Institute for Tourism, Wine Business, and Marketing, as well as Programme Director for the Master programme Marketing at the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Austria. His areas of lecturing and research are Digital Marketing, E-Tourism, Marketing and Communication Management, Strategic Marketing Planning. Christian Maurer studied German Philology and Communication Sciences at the University of Vienna. From 1995-1998 he was Lecturer at the University of Hull in GB, where he also achieved a post-graduate diploma in "Applied Language and New Technologies". From 2000 to 2004 Christian Maurer worked for the Austrian National Tourist Office (ANTO) in Vienna. In the position of Head of Information Management he was responsible for strategic planning and e-marketing, the ANTO's internet portal, and the holiday service center austria.info. Christian Maurer has published several research papers, led international research projects and has held many presentations at international conferences. He is founder of the International Student Conference in Tourism Research (ISCONTOUR).

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      Kim Jong IL. Ron Hubbard - Christian Maurer

      About the Author:

      Christian Maurer, born in Leoben, Austria, studied experimental design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1989, he left his studies and moved to Berlin where he experienced the Berlin Wall just weeks before it‘s fall. This event opened the flood gates of movement and creativity in Berlin, with installations to performance art to gallery installations, uninhibited by the emerging Art Market. In this rich environment, Maurer drew inspiration, unconstrained, creating unsellable and sellable works. His work is independent of outside influences. Starting a new project, there is no end goal in sight as it may change during the work process itself. He no longer employes the word art to describe his work.

      A more detailed biography and an overview of his work can be found on the website http://www.christianmaurer-berlin.de

      About the Book:

      In the shadow of personality cults, barbarity, absurdity and madness, very often the human beings behind the worlds‘ influential leaders disappears. The science fiction writer and founding father of the so-called Scientology Church, L. Ron Hubbard, and the late Beloved Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, met by accident in Venice in the 1950‘s.

      Spontaneous sympathy soon turned into a very special, deep friendship. From petty juvenile jealousy over a bumpy lifetime with setbacks and frictions until their deaths, the uninhibited reader finds curiosity and banalities, mixed with serious world political decisions. Last but not least, the reading illuminates connections and facts which we now perceive as the legacies of these two men.

      In a time of the inflationary use of the words Fake News and Alternative Facts, the author manages to

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