Kerstin Herrnkind

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Kerstin Herrnkind (* 1965 as Kerstin Schneider in Bremen ) is a German journalist and author .

Career

Herrkind grew up in Bremen for the first ten years until her parents moved with her to the area around Hamburg. After graduating from high school, she first trained as a legal assistant and then went to Dallas as an au pair for a year . Back in Germany, after three years of waiting for a place at university, she enrolled for a degree in librarianship with a minor in literature . In addition to her studies, she wrote articles for the local section of the Buxtehuder Tageblatt and sat in on the Spiegel documentation for six months . After completing her studies , Herrnkind volunteered at the Nordsee-Zeitung and from 1995 wrote about state politics and legal issues for the Bremen editorial office of the taz . She has been a reporter at Stern since 1999 , her main topics being police and justice.

Marie's file

In 2008, Herrnkind (still under the name Kerstin Schneider) published her first book, “Marie's File” , based on four years of research . It was about Marie , Herrnkind's great aunt from the Protestant Neugersdorf , and her great aunt Magdalena from the Catholic neighboring town of Philippsdorf . Both women had been diagnosed with delusional mental disorders by doctors . During an apparition of Magdalena in 1866 Philippsdorf an important place of pilgrimage did what helped the inhabitants of considerable wealth, their great-niece Marie as "was unworthy of life " victims of Nazi medical murders .

In a second edition of the book published in 2012, Herrnkind added reactions to their research: While the Catholic Church in Neugersdorf prevented Herrkind from reading, the diocese of Leitmeritz forbade any further talk of a miracle regarding Magdalena . In the state institute of Großschweidnitz , twelve kilometers away , where Marie fell victim to the "euthanasia doctor" Robert Herzer, who failed in medical studies and was never licensed , a morgue was converted into a memorial in 2012 to deal with the crimes in the clinic during National Socialism . In Mannheim, where Robert Herzer, despite being convicted in the Dresden euthanasia trial , made a career as a " senior doctor " at TÜV Baden from the end of the 1950s , his gravestone with a forged title was removed.

For Evelyn Finger , Herrnkind's “brilliant non-fiction book” on Marie and Magdalena was “a dark didactic piece, ... sensitively reconstructed contemporary history in family format”. The taz described Herrnkind's search for her family history as “exciting”, which “leads to a piece of civilization history at the same time”. Barbara Dobrick ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur ) complained that Herrnkind's “narrative attitude is not entirely consistent”, as she sometimes writes “like a chronicler who is committed to the facts, sometimes like a novelist whose style is not entirely convincing”. Overall, however, Herrnkind has "an oppressive, exciting story to tell". For Barbara Bongartz it was “a rich, multi-layered book”, the opening of which is reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier : “I now know what a curse is.” “From side to side”, “the whispering style of the beginning develops into a subtle tone of storytelling, the beginning of a journey, the outcome of which is uncertain. ” Michael Hametner settled Herrnkind's book“ between non-fiction and novel ”, which was created“ on the basis of extensive research ”. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung highlighted the “veritable scandal” that had been discovered: Herrkind had “succeeded in locating the euthanasia executor”, the “impostor who pretended to be a doctor and sent countless people to their deaths with his 'expert reports'. "Dolores Herrmann ( State Archives Leipzig ) considered the report to be" extremely comprehensive and precisely researched and written as excitingly as a crime thriller. "The reader feels" really involved in the research and apparently incidentally "receives" brief, vivid historical additional information that gives him the Let family history be seen as part of general contemporary history. […] A very courageous book, too, because the author demystifies Saint Magdalena Kade as mentally ill. "

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author profile Kerstin Herrnkind. In: Stern .
  2. ↑ Kerstin Schneider: Marie's file. In: weissbooks.w .
  3. ↑ a b Magdalena, the mad saint. In: taz . September 26, 2009, p. 44.
  4. ↑ Biography of Lina Marie Schöbel on gedenkort-t4.eu
  5. ^ Matthias Klaus: "Marie's file" is opened. In: Saxon newspaper . May 7, 2010.
  6. ↑ Steffen Neumann: A miracle, its church and the consequences. In: Saxon newspaper . January 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Kerstin Schneider: An impostor who went over corpses. In: Stern . September 18, 2008.
  8. ↑ Kay Müller: In the fog of family history. In: shz.de . December 21, 2012.
  9. ↑ Kerstin Schneider: The Nazi doctor from TÜV. In: Stern . December 21, 2005.
  10. ↑ Klaus Wolschner: One became a saint - the other became "unworthy life". In: taz . September 26, 2009, p. 44.
  11. ↑ Evelyn Finger : Maria, help! In: The time . December 23, 2008.
  12. ↑ Barbara Dobrick : The Bohemian Miracle of Lourdes. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . October 28, 2008.
  13. ↑ Barbara Bongartz : What a curse is. In: The press . January 2, 2009.
  14. ↑ Michael Hametner : "Marie's File - The Secret of a Family". ( Memento of June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: MDR Figaro . January 13, 2009.
  15. ↑ Family Stories . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 13, 2008.
  16. ^ Dolores Herrmann ( State Archives Leipzig ): Reviews. In: Sächsisches Archivblatt. Issue 1/2009, p. 28f.
  17. ↑ Pia Lenz: One day, 39 texts and three answers. In: reporter-forum.de. December 12, 2016, accessed January 2, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Kerstin Herrnkind, Dominik Stawski: There is no consolation. ( Memento from December 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stern . December 6, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Herrkind, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Kerstin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen