Mutsuko Ayano

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Memorial stele for Mutsuko Ayano on the Petrisberg in Trier ( 49 ° 45 ′  N , 6 ° 40 ′  E )

Mutsuko Ayano ( Japanese 綾 野 睦 子 , Ayano Mutsuko ; born September 30, 1956 in the prefecture of Okayama ; † November 21, 1983 in Trier ) was a Japanese student who was the victim of a violent crime while studying in Germany.

She completed a degree in German in Japan and came to Trier University as a Rotary scholarship holder in 1981 , where she did her doctorate under Professor Hermann Gelhaus. She was considered an eager and gifted student. In letters to her parents, she reported about life in Germany, the differences to Japan and her love for the German language . A selection of these letters was published in German translation in 1987 and reprinted in a small booklet a few years later.

On the morning of November 17, 1983, she went from Trier-Ost to the university and met a 20-year-old Polish showman who was in Trier for the All Saints' Day Mass. He tried to snatch the purse from Ayano. When she struggled, she fell and was kicked several times in the head by the man. He fled with a booty of 90 marks . Mutsuko Ayano succumbed to her serious injuries in the hospital a few days later. The police initially had no evidence of the perpetrator. The case was solved when the perpetrator was caught in December 1983 in Regensburg , where he had robbed another woman and kicked her to death. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The act sparked strong sympathy among the population. In 1984, at the site of the attack on Petrisberg, a memorial stele designed by the Trier sculptor Jupp Zimmer according to the wishes of the parents was erected and donated by Rotarians. In 2008 a street in Petrisberg-West was named after Mutsuko Ayano ( 49 ° 45 ′  N , 6 ° 40 ′  E ).

In a generous reaction to the violent death of their daughter, her parents founded the Mutsuko Ayano Fund , which has enabled Japanese students to stay at the University of Trier since 1985 and is managed by the Friends of the University of Trier. Two of these scholarship holders are now German language professors in Japan, Kazuhiko Tamura (1985/1986) at Kwansei-Gakuin University and Akiko Hayashi (1986/1987) at Gakugei University Tokyo . In her greeting to the 11th German Japanologentag in Trier in 1999, Professor Hilaria Gössmann pointed out that Mutsuko Ayano's death had made a decisive contribution to establishing the subject of Japanese Studies at the University of Trier.

Works

  • 1982: The tenses of the past in German and Japanese . In: Research on German and French Literature Universitat Okayama 1, pp. 63–85.
  • 1984: Mutsuko, ryūgaku wa owatta yo - Nishi Doitsu de kanashimi no shi ( 睦 子 、 留学 は 終 わ っ た よ - 西 ド イ ツ で 悲 し み の 死 ). Sanshūsha ( 三 修 社 ) ISBN 978-4384037388 .
  • 1999: University of Trier (ed.): Letters . Trier, new edition.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 30 years after the murder: Memory of Mutsuko Ayano. (No longer available online.) University of Trier Press Office, November 12, 2013, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved December 26, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Four strong women. Harrowing robbery. In: Rathaus-Zeitung Trier. February 5, 2008, accessed July 14, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Hilaria Gössmann, Andreas Mrugalla (ed.): 11th German-speaking Japanologentag in Trier 1999 . Volume I. LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2001, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Ayano, Mutsuko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 綾 野 睦 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese student who was the victim of a violent crime while studying in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Okayama Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1983
Place of death trier