Mr. Mauersberger, what is your motive was to reopen the case Ellen Rinsche after sixty years ?
the beginning was all a coincidence. As you get older, you sometimes crazy ideas. I had the desire to write an exciting novel, a thriller or a political thriller. Then I remembered the case Rinsche again, which happened in 1949 in my city. I already asked at the time as a young man: why one slays innocent women by then their Man dismembered, it moves its body parts with the baby carriage through the city? The case took me a whole life not released, although I've only just started much later, to write about. The more thoroughly I rummaged through the files, last
interviewed witnesses and tried to solve the case, the closer I got to the truth. And I discovered behind the crime is a tragic story of a man and a woman. You have researched a murder case meticulously.
Why did you chose the literary form of the novel?
The title "Forced Vengeance" means a state of mind that runs through the whole book. In the life of Ellen and Joseph Rinsche there were few moments of happiness. Everything around her was violence and aggression. Like their marriage, which was hell. The title indicates the structure of the novel, which is composed of many, self-contained chapters. Reality and fiction are indeed very close together. The novel gives me as an author but the way I disregard the literary reality. I can record why it has to come to the murder. I can work out psychological motives sharper. I can embed a love story that there were actually. As a journalist you have reported on myriad topics. What do you think is special about the case, Ellen Rinsche?
The case could happen in this incredible drama only in the immediate postwar period
, ie in a time when everything was broken, there were no rules any more and morale was down. It happened even in a period of political transition. The four are between 1945 and 1949, not in the historiography. They are regarded as trivial rubble years. They all looked back with horror, just forward. Everyone wanted to survive, even the murderer Ellen Rinsche that killed her husband without asking whether they
can be punished for it. She confided to a lawless state. Only thus their naivete in covering up the crime can be explained.
They are doing but not about legitimizing the act afterwards?
Not quite. But I will tell the tragic story of a woman who is still unknown. It knows only the killer, the monster, the terrible witch. But the killer is hidden behind a wife and mother who believed until the end of their marriage and still in the prison cell said that they had their man like that was a bad man. He was the evil, not his wife in a desperate moment of her life lost control and killed her husband. This was an act of almost classic self-defense, the then negated the Hagen court, however. Ten years later, the verdict might be different failed because the democratic law stood on solid ground. Ellen Rinsche was a murderer who had to be punished for their evil deed - no question. But she was also a victim of the then social relations, not to mention unlimited by their isolation and loneliness all.
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