In the National Austrian radio talk-show "Teestunde", Helnwein uses obscenities to insult Sam T. Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb.
He further accuses Elvis' physician of murder and criticizes the education system, referring to the high number of student-suicides. Helnwein calls upon students to simply stay away from school.
The director of Austrian Radio (ORF) is appalled and cancels the show ...

Helnwein meets Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf.
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Helnwein's Self-portrait is the cover of the Scorpions album Blackout.
Klaus Albrecht Schroeder, director of the Albertina in Vienna, said 1987 about this often reproduced image: "It is hard to deny, that the aggression- and vulnerability-symbolism of Helnwein's well-known and multiple-varied selfportrait of a bandaged head, eyes blinded by surgical forks and mouth opened wide to form a scream; is something of a self-evident metaphor for an elementary human stipulation of today's existence." ...

Helnwein's portrait of Kennedy makes the cover of "Time" for the 20th anniversary of the President's death.

1981 Helnwein meets Andy Warhol in Vienna.
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First monograph, texts: H. C. Artmann, Botho Strauss, Wolfgang Bauer and Barbara Frischmuth.

Berween 1981 and 1985 Helnwein works on a series of photographic self-portraits - often in connection with performances, and sometimes including his children.
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Begin of the friendship with Austrian poet H.C. Artmann.
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Austrian poet and playwright Wolfgang Bauer writes the ballad "Song for Helnwein - Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
Begin of the friendship with Wolfgang Bauer ...

1979 One-man show with pen-and-ink drawings in the Albertina Museum, Vienna.

November 12, Helnwein's daughter Mercedes Xenia is born.
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"Life not Worth Living".
Spurred into action by an interview in the Austrian newspaper "Kurier" in which the country's top court psychiatrist, Dr Heinrich Gross, admits killing children at Vienna's "Am Spiegelgrund" Pediatric Unit during the war by poisoning their food, Helnwein paints "Life not Worth Living" - a watercolour of a little girl "asleep" on the table, her head in her plate. The painting gets published in Austrias leading newsmagazine Profil and sparkes a nationwide debate that finally leads to Gross' appearing before a Vienna court . The judge rules Gross is mentally unfit to be tried. ...

Aktion in the International Year of the Child.
R. Höpfinger and E. Regnier hand out sweets and toys bearing Helnwein pictures of wounded children to passers-by in Zürich. ...

1977 Helnwein travels through the United States for several months.

April 5, Helnwein's son Cyril is born.
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Beginning of his relationship with Renate Kurrer, whom he marries 1982.

More pen-and-ink drawings.
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1976 Aktion "Allzeit Bereit" (Ever Ready) at the Naschmarkt, Vienna.
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Aktion "St. Stephn" with Robert Schoeller in Vienna.
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Aktion "Cafe Alt Wien".
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