Tatunca Nara

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Tatunca Nara , actually Günther Hauck (born October 5, 1941 in Coburg ), is a German - Brazilian impostor who pretended to be an Indian chief .

Life

The public first heard of Tatunca Nara in the summer of 1972. At that time, the suntanned alleged Indian chief appeared in Brazil and claimed to be the chief of an unknown people. He and his people live in underground vaults below the rainforest , and there were also around two thousand German soldiers from the time of World War II who came to Brazil in submarines between 1941 and 1945. The Brazilian authorities were initially skeptical, as Tatunca Nara only spoke broken Portuguese , but had a perfect command of German.

In the mid-1970s, the German foreign correspondent Karl Brugger became aware of Tatunca Nara, who was dubbed an impostor. Tatunca told him the story of his alleged people and wanted to go on a journey of discovery with Brugger. First of all, they wanted to look for an abandoned pyramid in the rainforest that aliens should have built there. Brugger, impressed and strongly convinced of Tatunca's words, wrote the story of Tatunca Nara and published it as the book Die Chronik von Akakor , which was also published in Germany in 1976. Tatunca Nara made headlines around the world for a short time.

In order to earn money, Tatunca Nara offered herself as a jungle guide for tourists. The first tourist who came more often and, similar to Brugger's aim, to discover pyramids and the underground city of Tatuncas, "Akakor", was the American John Reed. In 1980 he started an expedition with the alleged chief. Both wanted to look for the people of Tatunca in the rain forest. Tatunca returned from this trip alone; since then there has been no trace of John Reed.

The Swiss forester Herbert Wanner had a similar experience. He also never returned from an expedition with Tatunca Nara in 1983.

Finally, the yoga teacher Christine Heuser from Kehl undertook an expedition into the jungle with Tatunca Nara in 1987 and disappeared under unexplained circumstances.

Tatunca Nara fought against any allegations of the murder or accident of the three missing people. He never wanted to have gone on an expedition with them, didn't even want to know them well. A couple of years later, during a tour of the jungle, a couple found a skull identified as that of Herbert Wanner. From this it emerged that Tatunca must either have left Herbert Wanner behind in the jungle or killed him. A walk from the place where Wanner lived while on vacation in Brazil would have been unthinkable.

In 1984 Karl Brugger was shot dead by a robber on the street in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1990 the German adventurer Rüdiger Nehberg and the filmmaker Wolfgang Brög took on the case. Under the pretext of wanting to make a film about him, Brög went on a jungle excursion with two women and Tatunca. On this occasion, Brög filmed Tatuncon's contradicting statements. After months of research and shooting, he managed to expose the lies and contradictions of Tatunca. The 58-minute film was shown on the ARD evening program in 1991. Rüdiger Nehberg wrote the book Adventure Forest for the "Tatunca Nara" case .

The Federal Criminal Police Office established in the late 1980s "on suspicion of killing and enforced disappearance of three people" that Tatunca Nara was actually born as Günther Hauck in Coburg ( Bavaria ) and in the early 1960s due to economic difficulties (including maintenance debts towards his three Children) from Germany disappeared. The proceedings were discontinued "because the accused was absent".

Tatunca still lives in Barcelos (Amazonas) on the Rio Negro (Brazil), together with his second wife Anita, geb. Cat. His Brazilian passport identifies him as "Tatunca Nara, indigenous origin". In 2003 Tatunca Nara had herself declared insane. He still works as a tourist guide in the Barcelos area.

Publications

  • Tatunca Nara: The Chronicle of Akakor / tells of Tatunca Nara. Karl Brugger . (Special edition) Kopp Verlag , Rottenburg 2000, ISBN 3-930219-28-X .
  • Wolfgang Brög: The secret of Tatunca Nara. Documentation, 58 min, WDR 1990, DVD by Iris Film
  • Tatunca Nara, Karl Brugger (arr.): The Chronicle of Akakor / tells of Tatunca Nara, the chief of the Ugha Mongulala . Econ, Düsseldorf, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-430-11588-4 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Siebenhaar: The Truth About Akakor's Chronicle and Other Secrets of South America . Kopp, Rottenburg 2006, ISBN 3-938516-21-6 .
  • Rüdiger Nehberg: Jungle Adventure . Malik, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89029-286-0 .
  • Rüdiger Nehberg: The self-made chief . Kabel, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-8225-0169-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Brugger: The Chronicle of Akakor. Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-04161-8 , pp. 176-180.
  2. ↑ I am Tatunca. Point. In: Der Spiegel , 27/2014, pp. 50–55.

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personal data
SURNAME Tatunca Nara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauck, Günther (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Brazilian impostor and self-appointed Indian chief
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg , Bavaria