Marinus Schöberl

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Marinus Schöberl (born September 4, 1985 in Wolfen , today in Bitterfeld-Wolfen ; † July 13, 2002 in Oberuckersee - Potzlow ) became known as a murder victim of right-wing extremist youth in Potzlow.

Sequence of events

The old pig fattening facility in Potzlow

On July 12, 2002, the 16-year-old Marinus Schöberl from Gerswalde was murdered by three young people with a right-wing extremist background in a former LPG pig fattening facility in Potzlow. The previous evening, the victim was out with brothers Marco and Marcel S. and Sebastian F., during which they forcibly entered the house of three villagers in order to have a drink. The residents did not offer any resistance, but went out onto the veranda. After consuming large amounts of alcohol, Marco S. began to claim that Schöberl, because of his bleached hair and baggy pants , looked “like a Jew ” and asked him to say that he was one. Because Schöberl did not do this, he was beaten until he was bleeding. A 42-year-old woman who had noticed this said to Schöberl that he should answer the question in the affirmative so that they stop. When he did, however, he was further tortured by further beating him, pouring him a mixture of beer and liquor, and urinating on him. The prosecutor therefore expressly stated that the perpetrators had previously tortured their victim long and cruelly. In the pig fattening facility, they finally imitated a scene with him from the US film American History X (1998), in which a person is killed by a so-called " curb kick ". Then they threw him into the dried up cesspool there. It is not known whether he was still alive at the time. The crime was solved because a perpetrator reported the crime to people of the same age six months later.

Judgments

The district court Neuruppin an underage perpetrators of the crime was two years on 23 October 2003 youth custody and was in the custody dismissed. The main offender received a youth sentence of eight years and six months. His adult brother, who was given the remaining sentence from a previous attack on an African, received 15 years imprisonment for attempted murder. For both convicts, their alcoholism and a low IQ of about 55 mitigated the penalty. In the press it was also reported that Marco S., like his victim, had a speech impediment, had already been bullied in kindergarten , had only completed the seventh special school year and could have chosen his victim because he was even weaker than Schöberl looked at himself.

In August 2004 the Federal Court of Justice in Leipzig revised the judgment. Another chamber of the Neuruppin Regional Court therefore imposed a three-year youth sentence on the person released after the first judgment. In October 2010, the main culprit Marcel S. was released after eight years in prison and the remaining sentence was suspended.

media

Memorial stone for Marinus Schöberl in front of the Potzlow Church

The events of that day were staged in 2005 by Andres Veiel in a play by the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin in a co-production with the Basel Theater . The piece Der Kick was also adapted on film; the film of the same name was released in September 2006. A film documentary by Jörg Jeshel and Brigitte Kramer about the genesis of the play and the background to the act was broadcast on 3sat under the title Potzlow - Story X. The title alludes to the film that "inspired" the perpetrators. In 2007 Veiel expanded his documentary theater piece into the book Der Kick. A lesson on violence .

The South Tyrolean author Toni Bernhart , who lives in Berlin, also addressed the case artistically. His play Martinisommer was premiered in 2006 as part of the third Tyrolean Dramatists Festival in the Westbahntheater, Innsbruck , in cooperation with the Theater in der Altstadt, Meran (director: Torsten Schilling) and produced as a radio play by ORF (Ö1) (director: Harald Krewer). This radio play production ran in 2006 as a live radio play in the Vienna Burgtheater (casino). Toni Bernhart developed Martinisommer during the workshop days 2003 at the Vienna Burgtheater.

On the initiative of Pastor Johannes Reimer, the community erected a memorial stone for Marinus Schöberl in front of the church in Potzlow, which had been donated by Berliners.

In 2012 the documentary film Nach Wriezen by director Daniel Abma was released. a. accompanied the main perpetrator, Marcel S., for three years after his release from the Wriezen correctional facility .

See also

Movies

literature

radio play

  • Gesine Schmidt, Andres Veiel: The kick. RBB / SWR 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hoehnepresse.de
  2. ↑ "The Kick" on dtver.de with reading sample (internal link - PDF)
  3. ↑ a b c Gisela Friedrichsen : “Say that you are Jewish!” , Spiegel Online , June 7, 2003.
  4. ^ A b c d Michael Mielke: "The children were always clean and properly dressed" , Welt.de , May 26, 2003.
  5. ↑ Speechlessness, humiliation and violence. - Interview with Andres Veiel about Der Kick
  6. ^ Der Tagesspiegel of October 25, 2003 ( Memento of February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ BGH press release from August 19, 2004
  8. ↑ Punishment in the Potzlow murder case tightened . In: Die Welt , December 22, 2004
  9. ^ Der Tagesspiegel of December 16, 2010
  10. ↑ The buried memory . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 31, 2007; review
personal data
SURNAME Schöberl, Marinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German victim of right-wing extremist violence
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfen , GDR
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2002
Place of death Oberuckersee - Potzlow , Germany