Ingrid Stampa

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Ingrid Stampa (born February 23, 1950 in Uedem ) was a music professor , translator at the Vatican and from 1991 to 2005, among other things, Cardinal Ratzinger's housekeeper .

Life

Ingrid Stampa was born as the daughter of Mechthilde Janßen (* 1912) and Klaus Stampa from Verden an der Aller . At the age of 18 she began studying early music at the Basel City Music Academy . After graduating, she started teaching in Switzerland in 1975. Just one year later, the twenty-six- year-old was appointed to the Hamburg University of Music and Theater , where she taught as a professor for the viola da gamba until the late 1980s . During this time she also performed as a viol player, made records with the ensemble of the Basel Music School and was considered an outstanding artist in the scene. Ingrid Stampa ended her career in order to "let herself fall completely into God's hands in order to only serve him in the future", as she explained to the magazine Bunte . After a year in a monastic community, through the mediation of Nikolaus Wyrwoll, she became the housekeeper of the cancer-stricken Archbishop Cesare Zacchi , whom she looked after in Rome until his death in 1991. At the same time, she also took on the management of other households belonging to members of the curia .

After the death of the sister of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , who had lived as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome since 1982 , Ingrid Stampa took over his housekeeping duties in 1991 until his election as Pope . Since 2005 she has been employed in the Vatican State Secretariat and worked with the Vatican translation department under Paolo Cardinal Sardi . She speaks several languages ​​and has translated numerous books by John Paul II into German. Together with Bishop Josef Clemens , she continued to maintain regular friendly contact with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Her name was mentioned in various media in connection with the Vatileaks affair in 2012. Paul Badde , at that time the Vatican correspondent for the world , thought she was the main character of a jealous drama in the Pope's German environment, where she conspired with Clemens and Sardi and supported the valet Paolo Gabriele in the theft of documents. However, there is no reliable evidence of this. The suspicions, which were also circulated in the Italian press, were described by Stampa's acquaintances as implausible.

It is attributed to the Schoenstatt Movement without having confirmed this.

Trivia

Alexander Smoltczyk dedicates a few pages of anecdotal notes to her in his book “Vatikanistan” and compares her there with Sister Pascalina (Lehnert), who was the housekeeper and assistant to Pope Pius XII for decades . was and was nicknamed La Papessa (Italian: "The Popess ").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Suspicion against Stampa absurd" . In: Rheinische Post , July 26, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b The Pope's housekeeper was a professor. In: Der Spiegel , May 2, 2005, accessed January 30, 2019.
  3. ^ Matthias Drobinski : Intrigue game out of mad jealousy. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 27, 2012, accessed on January 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ Jürgen Erbacher : Short process. October 3, 2012, accessed August 18, 2013 .
  5. ^ Andrea Tornielli : Ingrid Stampa and editing the Pope's new book. November 21, 2012, accessed August 18, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Alexander Smoltczyk : Vaticanistan. A journey of discovery through the smallest country in the world. Heyne, Munich, ISBN 978-3-453-15434-6 , pp. 212-216.
personal data
SURNAME Stampa, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music professor and housekeeper of Pope Benedict XVI.
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Uedem