1983 One-man show at Munich Stadtmuseum .
The exhibition is seen by more than a hundred thousand people ...

ZDF and ORF (German and Austrian National Television) produce the film "Helnwein", directed by Peter Hajek. In Los Angeles Helnwein meets Muhammad Ali, who appears in the film.

Bavarian Television produces a film portrait of Helnwein directed by Hans-Dieter Hartl.
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"Rettet die Donau" (Save the Danube).
- the Austrian art-collector and patron Hans Dichand finances a campaign with large bill- boards of Helnwein's artwork throughout Austria against the destruction of the last great riverside meadowland woods in Europe by the Austrian power-station company Donau- kraftwerke AG.

Helnwein meets with Andy Warhol at his factory in New York .
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The Higher College of Visual Art (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) in Hamburg offers Helnwein a Chair.
Helnwein demands no tests and no age-restrictions as pre-requisites for his students. He wants the freedom to accept anybody, including children. The college rejectes this demand as being against university regulations and Helnwein declines the offer ...

For "Zeit" magazine, Peter Sager writes a cover story about Helnwein.
The self-portrait as a screaming blinded man is used for this cover story and later for the cover of the Scorpions' LP "Blackout".

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

First monograph, texts: H. C. Artmann, Botho Strauss, Wolfgang Bauer and Barbara Frischmuth.

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.

"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.

More pen-and-ink drawings.
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1976 Aktion "Allzeit Bereit" (Ever Ready) at the Naschmarkt, Vienna.
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1975 -1985 Helnwein works on a series of pen-and-ink drawings.
"Unser Entenbischof" (Our Duck-Bishop),
"Zwei amerikanische Ärzte behelligen eine Patientin" (Two American Doctors teasing a Patient),
"Mulattin Erika in ihrem Haus" (Mulato-girl Erika in her House),"Das Wannenwunder von Watras" (The Bathtub Wonder of Watras),
"Metallippe zum Lächeln" (Metal Lip for Smiling),
"Das Grubenunglück" (Mine Disaster),
"Korrekturspange" (Corrective Brace),
"Assistent Assmann" (Assistant Assmann),
"Hilfe für Mann ohne Kinn" (Help for Man with no Chin). ...

1974 Theodor Körner Prize.

ZDF (German national TV) film portrait "Helnweins Sehtest" (Helnwein's Eye Test), directed by Heinz Dieckmann.
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"Weisse Kinder" (White Children) Aktion with 15 bandaged children in Kärntnerstrasse, in the centre of Vienna.
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