New book: "Married to a Scientologist"

My name is Ilse Hruby and I am from Vienna, Austria.

I work as an operating room nurse in the trauma unit, I am not a Scientologist nor an ex-Scientologist, and have been posting to the de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology forum under a different name - Max and Max42 - for reasons of security.

I was married to a Scientologist for almost 4 years, have directly experienced Scientology or, at least, an attempt to make me into a Scientologist.

At the same time I have had to take a look at how much Scientology can influence, control and destroy the life and thought of a person.

The book "Meine Ehe mit einem Scientologen" appears in September in the Bertelsmann Verlag in the Gütersloher non-fiction series.

The book is not a litany of complaints nor is it a smoking gun, but a first-person report of a marriage between a Scientologist and a non-Scientologist and the effect the Scientology doctrine had upon our marital relationship.

El Awadalla and Marie-Susanne Klar are my co-authors, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them both for their cooperation in writing this book. It can be ordered in advance:

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3579011456/ You can read an interview with me in English:

http://cisar.org/990700a.htm or in German:

http://www.renatehartwig.de/ren-har/interview.html We would have liked to have introduced the book and my identity to this NG at the appropriate moment.

But Jörg Pohler seems to have felt that he has been chosen to reveal my identity in his unqualified scribblings here.

Mr. Pohler did NOT have permission to post my wedding photo on alt.binaries.scientology. As has been seen in his postings on de.soc.weltanschauung.scientology ("anonymes Foto" and "wo ist er denn") he revealed the identity of Mrs. Sperber, who sent him the photo, in an extremely maladroit manner, thereby tipping his hand and making the statement that he did not know who the people in the photo were completely unbelievable. Furthermore, Mrs. Sperber is the only person who ever received the scanned picture, and that was for personal use.

Trusting her was a mistake. She had NO justification and no permission to forward the photo to a third person "anonymously."

The photo was taken at my wedding to a Scientologist by someone in my family with my camera. The negative and copyright of the photo belong to me, and any use of it must have my approval.

Isn't there always somebody who wants to use your involvement in Scientology for their own, not always entirely pure, interests?

It used to be that this type of "outing" was carried out only by the Scientologists; it's surprising that the same methods are also being used by certain circles of critics. That, of course, helps Scientology, for instance, OSA used to think that "Max" was somebody else entirely.

Now, thanks to Jörg Pohler's "ethical" toils, OSA is well-informed.

What's also striking about this campaign by Mr. Pohler and Mrs.

Sperber is that it's taking place right before my book is to appear. It's easy to see what's behind these two people.

ML Ilse Hruby -- Meine Ehe mit einem Scientologen:

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3579011456/ Interview with me:

http://www.renatehartwig.de/ren-har/interview.html or in English http://cisar.org/990700a.htm

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