Josef Dvorak is an Austrian therapist, Catholic theologian (scholar of Karl Rahner), author, and co-founder of the Viennese Actionism.
At the end of the 1960s, Dvorak was an important intellectual source of inspiration for the left-winged Viennese student scene.
After that, Dvorak retreated into a farmhouse in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel and began celebrating “Satanic masses with plenty of naked flesh and blood” („Satanische Messen mit viel nacktem Fleisch und Blut“ [1]) In the 1980s, Dvorak celebrated a modification of English occultist Aleister Crowley’s Missa Phoenix in Burgenland and in Bremen.
These happenings have been broadcast on Austrian television and gained Dvorak the reputation of being close to Satanism himself.
Today, Dvorak calls himself a “Satanologist” and, as a free researcher and publicist, is particularly engaged in the history of psychoanalysis and the occult.