Natascha Kampusch

Natascha Kampusch (2019)

Natascha Maria Kampusch (born February 17, 1988 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author , jewelry designer and former television presenter .

She became known for the first time after fleeing from a long-term kidnapping and deprivation of liberty . In 1998, the then ten-year-old Austrian was kidnapped by the unemployed communications engineer Wolfgang Přiklopil in Vienna and held captive for more than eight years in his house in the Gänserndorf district , east of Vienna. When Kampusch fled in 2006 at the age of 18, her appearance led to worldwide media coverage.

In 2008 Kampusch hosted his own talk show with the name Natascha Kampusch meets . In 2010 she published an autobiography entitled 3096 Days , which she wrote together with Heike Gronemeier and Corinna Milborn . The book took first place on the bestseller lists. In 2016 she published her second book 10 Years of Freedom , again together with Heike Gronemeier. In 2019 she published, without co-authors, the book Cyberneider about bullying on the Internet .

She also designed a jewelry collection called Fiore , which appeared in 2017.

Origin and early years

Natascha Kampusch was born as the daughter of the trained tailor Brigitta Sirny (née Kampusch) and the master baker Ludwig Koch. Her parents, who were not married to each other, separated when she was a child. Natascha has two significantly older half-sisters on her mother's side. Before she was abducted, she was in fourth grade in elementary school .

kidnapping

→ Main article : Abduction of Natascha Kampusch

On the morning of March 2, 1998, Natascha Kampusch was dragged into a van on her way to school and subsequently held for 3096 days in Strasshof in Lower Austria on the northern railway . She escaped on August 23, 2006. Přiklopil died shortly afterwards by suicide .

The circumstances of the kidnapping and imprisonment as well as possible misconduct by the investigative authorities were discussed in detail by the media. The ongoing discussion led to the establishment of an evaluation commission and two parliamentary committees of inquiry.

watch TV

Logo of the television program Natascha Kampusch meets

Natascha Kampusch decided to give isolated interviews on television. Between June and October 2008, she hosted her own television program Natascha Kampusch meets on the Austrian channel Puls 4 . After three episodes (with guests Niki Lauda , Stefan Ruzowitzky and Veronica Ferres ) the show was discontinued.

School education

In June 2008 Kampusch made up her secondary school leaving certificate and began training as a goldsmith, which she broke off.

Author

In 2010 Natascha Kampusch published her autobiography 3096 Days , which became a bestseller on the German and Austrian book markets. The reviewer Kim Kindermann praised the book for not drawing black and white and by no means portraying Kampusch as a mere helpless victim. She is "not in the eternal mistreatment, in the grief and helplessness (drowned), but she manages on her own to maintain distance, to go into inner immigration (sic!) Without getting lost".

In 2013 the film was shown in cinemas for 3096 days and tells Kampusch's story based on the book she wrote.

In 2016, on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of her self-liberation, she published her second book, Natascha Kampusch: 10 Years of Freedom.

In 2019 she published the book Cyberneider. Discrimination on the Internet through bullying and hate speech on the Internet; the first of her books that is not primarily biographically oriented, but in which she also reports on her own experiences.

Charitable ventures

In October 2011, Natascha Kampusch opened a hospital in Sri Lanka , which she financed from the donations received after her liberation and built in cooperation with the Don Bosco aid organization . The hospital has 25 beds.

family

Her father, Ludwig Koch, made serious allegations against his daughter in his 2013 book. He questioned her description of the kidnapping in part. In addition, Koch tried to stop the film from showing for 3096 days . Contrary to the claims in various media, Natascha Kampusch did not break off contact with her father or mother, as she confirmed in an ORF interview in July 2016.

Jewelry designer

Kampusch had always dreamed of becoming a jewelry designer since she was a child. In 2017 she released her jewelry collection Fiore ( Italian for flower ). According to Kampusch, the flower should symbolize her life story. The stem of the flower has a kink. The bend is followed by an upswing that flows into the flower. The kink corresponds to the years during the kidnapping.

The pieces of jewelry she designs are made of sterling silver . The goldsmith Gerda Guggenberger makes the pieces of jewelry according to Kampusch's designs.

Publications

• 3096 days (with Corinna Milborn and Heike Gronemeier). List, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-471-35040-9 ; Ullstein, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-548-37507-6 .
• 10 years of freedom (with Heike Gronemeier). List, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-471-35129-1 ; Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-548-37728-5 .
• Cyber ​​disgust. Discrimination on the Internet . Dachbuch, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903263-12-3 .

Documentation

• Christoph Feurstein : Natascha Kampusch- The first interview , ORF , topic (TV broadcast) , 2006
• Christoph Feurstein : Natascha Kampusch- her life 10 years after the flight , ORF , topic (TV show) special , 2016

literature

• Johann Rzeszut : The death of the Kampusch kidnappers: finding the truth in a stranglehold . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, ISBN 978-1534668867 .
• Guido Grandt, Udo Schulze: State affair Natascha Kampusch: strictly confidential . Verlag Weltenwandel, 2013, ISBN 978-3981592306 .
• Peter Reichard: The kidnapping case Natascha Kampusch: The whole shameful truth . Riva, 2016, ISBN 978-3868832983 .
• Martin Pelz: The Natascha Kampusch case . Tectum, Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2294-8 ; 2013 also as an e-book, ISBN 978-3-8288-5608-0 .
• Kathrin Röggla : Those involved , play, 2009.
• Brigitta Sirny-Kampusch: Desperate years, a life without Natascha . Recorded by Andrea Fehringer and Thomas Köpf, Ueberreuter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-8000-7295-8 .
• Walter Pöchhacker: The Natascha case: when police officers walk over corpses . Detective Agency Pöchhacker, 2004, ISBN 978-3200002357 .

Web links

Commons : Natascha Kampusch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Natascha Kampusch
• Literature by and about Natascha Kampusch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Natascha Kampusch in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kampusch becomes a jewelry designer. Retrieved August 19, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Woman: Exclusive interview with the author Corinna Milborn , September 6, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b First} place for Kampusch's autobiography ( memento of the original from December 29, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in relevant from September 20, 2010 
4. ↑ Natascha Kampusch: "The madness just lives on". Retrieved August 23, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Brigitta Sirny-Kampusch: Desperate Years. My life without Natascha
6. ↑ Der Spiegel : Soko examines evidence of accomplices , August 25, 2006
7. ↑ Der Spiegel : 3095 days behind a soundproof safe door , August 24, 2006
8. ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten Kampusch: After five years, many questions remain open , March 5, 2012
9. ↑ Pulse 4: Natascha Kampusch meets , June 2, 2008
10. ↑ Kampusch completes secondary school with preferential treatment, oe24.at, June 14, 2008
11. ^ Die Presse.com: Natascha Kampusch: Flucht exactly five years ago , 23 August 2011, accessed on 23 August 2011
12. ↑ Natascha Kampusch: “One of us both had to die” in Focus Online, February 18, 2013
13. ↑ The press "Kampusch Reading"
14. ↑ Kim Kindermann in Deutschlandradio Kultur on September 10, 2010: "A woman who does not allow herself to be made a victim"
15. ↑ Kampusch Children's Hospital in Sri Lanka opened on ORF on October 16, 2011, accessed on October 16, 2011.
16. ↑ Kampusch "speechless" about his father's book
17. ↑ Kampusch father wants to stop the film
18. ↑ Topic special: Natascha Kampusch - her life 10 years after fleeing on ORF, July 18, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2016. Video
19. ↑ Ulrike Gondorf: The Kampusch case on the stage. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur from April 19, 2009.