Biography

The first name of his pen name was taken from the ancient Greek god Hermes. The last name means "fat mountain", but is written as Phettberg instead of Fettberg as an ironic hint to his Greek-sounding first name.

In addition, Phettberg was also politically active, joined the ÖVP several times, and was a chancellist in the office of the Lower Austrian state government from 1982 to 1989. In May 2018, he finally joined the SPÖ.

In March 2001, together with Thomas Holzinger, he produced a full week, or 168 hours of continuous live internet broadcast, during which Phettberg was guarded in the prison of the so-called Arche Phettberg (also the title of the show) by half-naked young men in blue jeans.

He was also a proponent for the foundation of a "University of Pornography and Prostitution".

In the mid-1980s, he was co-founder of the groups Libertine Sadomasochismusinitiative Wien and of project Polymorph Perverse Klinik Wien.