From the SPD politician Petra Hinz became known that she had falsified their resumes. The Essenes Bundestag has stated in years, having studied law and worked by the state exam in a firm. Since all this is not true, they are now resigned her position as chairman of the SPD Essen while clumped the first outrage in social media. Shamelessly, brash, perfidious, these are the common vocabulary, and some commentators have Petra Hinz ‘CV confusion foamed already under intense heat supply to the “Causa”, the statement much about the graft in the political establishment in general.
More interesting than the commercial excitement, however, the voices that Petra Hinz now called impostor. The Berlin politicians Christopher Lauer even found, one should celebrate Petra Hinz. It finally going nothing about decades, not been flown impostor. And it does not take much to get access all the fictional and real characters with whom Petra Hinz should suddenly appear in a series in which art and life is the most beautiful way meet: the Captain of Koepenick, Felix Krull, Tom Ripley, Frank Abagnale and, from recently, Mike Ross of the lawyer series Suits . And so on. The glamorous and tragic mixture of biography and fiction, reality and appearance, the rise and fall.
The impostor surrounds a higher morality. Wilhelm Voigt, the Captain of Koepenick, was not only a man who dared an office and adorned with badges, not due to him, but he put the absurdity of Wilhelmine militarism merely. The postman Gert Postel, who held for many years high points in psychiatry, was not only a liar, but precisely also someone who was applauded by large sections of the public, because he could imitate the jargon of psychiatry so as those same jargon and behind it suspected arbitrariness exposed as such. Postel called his work at the hospital later in his bestseller that of a “swindler among impostors”. The constant of such illusions is what is called schadenfreude, the laughter of the audience, which feed on the ignorance of those who have the impostor brought into their midst.
Quite often it comes down to resentment against the supposedly elitist that accompany even as nearly every art forgery case, if it means that the counterfeiters have proved that the art world consists only of empty allegations, and all were just blame themselves when they have fallen. Why call a deceiver and impostor everywhere besides the indignation and admiration. To consummate conman beside the manicured lie heard the unmasking that makes it so only the tragicomic fascinating figure. The literary critic Burkhard Müller once remarked that impostor was never in himself, either before or since. “Nice to see” From a safe distance, as Schopenhauer would say, but also “to be terrible.” Only in the failure of the impostor came to fame. What, after all, also applies to Petra Hinz.
Now it is but so-is, at best, a second-class impostor. She has not spent as a politician, but was elected politician is not a training professional. She has not practiced because of a trumped studies as a lawyer, but merely stated that it had studied and practiced. She has also performed no right and wrong life, but only said that they have a living that she had in truth never. has what extent their alleged past influenced their career, it can only speculate. So actually remains only a lie that a political scandal is less than a private drama that deals with the loss of their own credibility. And if you want to look at all the one overriding moral at the end, as in the great impostor stories, one might worry about the German fetishization of the CV, which has to be probably still like a classic Bildungsroman (the Thomas Mann in Felix Krull also parodied). This has obviously led not only Hinz for cheating, but already some Kunz before her.
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