The historian and blogger, the story of a Jewish family velvet Holocaust, invented Victims, was found dead in her apartment, such as the “Irish Times” reported only now. The circumstances of her death are unclear.
According to the Irish daily newspaper, the 31-year-old German, who belonged long to the most successful German Internet-author, and in Dublin, there lived, at 17, was. July, dead in her bed discovered. According to the police there was no foul play; an autopsy is expected to bring clarity about whether the young woman has committed suicide. Hingsts mother Cornelia, confirmed The magazine “der Spiegel” that their daughter had died.
In June of this year, Marie Sophie Hingt international headlines was because they had invented the story of a Jewish family, and at the Yad Vashem memorial in Tel Aviv with the submission of so-called commemorative or sacrificial bows come to 22 alleged Relatives the impression that large parts of their family had perished in the Holocaust.
Prices for the blogger
Sophie was known Hingst with your Blog “Read on, my dear”. For their work, the Telling of the Suffering of their supposed Jewish ancestors got hung a lot of recognition. In 2017, it was named the “blogger of the year”. In the following year, their price is awarded the “Financial Times” in an essay competition on the “Future of Europe”. Also, since language Hingst of their alleged Jewish family and compared their fate with that of the refugees today in Europe’s shores. There was a lot of applause.
The scientist and publicist Micha Brumlik had spoken with DW about the case (archive image)
But then it was announced that the blogger had invented the story about your family ancestry free. In fact, she comes from a Protestant family, like the “mirror” had found out. Your grandfather is not – as claimed by you – a prisoner in the extermination camp of Auschwitz have been, but an Evangelical pastor. Of allegedly Jewish family members, no traces were found.
“A confused soul”
The historian and Holocaust researcher Micha Brumlik said in the interview-that the young woman was sorry. “I’ve wondered, however, whether such a thing can happen in the context of the fact that the question of the Holocaust, its victims and its perpetrators, a key topic in Germany. And so, I can imagine that one or the other bewildered soul – wife is not Hingst Yes, the first case gets in the wrong throat and for yourself updated incorrectly.”
Similar to the Journalist Derek Scally sees it, the Marie Sophie Hingst some time ago in Dublin, interviewed – and in spite of the “mirror”-the publication again of her Jewish relatives and their supposed mother Rachel told him even a yellow Jewish star showed, the allegedly belongs to her grandmother. Also Scally had pity with the Germans.
Cornelia hung about her daughter
The Reporter later led a couple of telephone calls to the UK and came across Cornelia Hingst. She was the real mother, revealed to you, a Rachel there, and her daughter to live in several worlds, you’ve only got access to one. She told Scally that Marie Sophie had several times had been because of psychological problems in therapy, and in Ireland, finally a new stable existence had built.
All of that collapsed after the exposure of their lying stories. As Cornelia, the Irish Times Reporter Hingst contacted now, with parts of him that her daughter was dead was found.
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The Deutsche Welle reports cautious on the subject of suicide, since there is evidence that some forms of reporting can lead to imitation reactions. If you entertain even thoughts of suicide or in emotional distress stuck, do not hesitate to seek help. Where there is help in your country, see the Website https://www.befrienders.org/