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„Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Duisburg-Essen Publications Online „Yours truly, Jack the Ripper” Die interdiskursive Faszinationsfigur eines Serienmörders in Spannungsliteratur und Film Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Dr. phil. im Fach Germanistik am Institut für Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen Vorgelegt von Iris Müller (geboren in Dortmund) Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Jochen Vogt Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Rolf Parr Tag der Disputation: 26. Mai 2014 Inhalt 1. Vorbemerkungen ..................................................................................... 4 1.1 Erkenntnisinteresse .............................................................................. 7 1.2 ‚Jack the Ripper‘ als interdiskursive Faszinationsfigur .......................... 9 1.3 Methodik und Aufbau der Arbeit ......................................................... 11 2. Die kriminalhistorischen Fakten ........................................................... 13 2.1 Quellengrundlage: Wer war ‚Jack the Ripper‘? ................................... 13 2.2 Whitechapel 1888: Der Tatort ............................................................. 14 2.3 Die Morde .......................................................................................... 16 2.3.1 Mary Ann Nichols ................................................................................................ 16 2.3.2 Annie Chapman ................................................................................................... 19 2.3.3 Elizabeth Stride ................................................................................................... 19 2.3.4 Catherine Eddowes ............................................................................................. 20 2.3.5 Mary Jane Kelly ................................................................................................... 26 3. Die Entstehung der fiktionalisierten interdiskursiven Faszinationsfigur ‚Jack the Ripper‘ .......................................................... 28 3.1 Vorüberlegungen ............................................................................... 28 3.2 Die Figur: ‚Jack the Ripper‘ – Ein Wahnsinniger? ............................... 32 3.3 Die frühe Phase der interdiskursiven Faszinationsfigur ‚Jack the Ripper‘: Wie alles begann ........................................................................ 37 3.4 Die späte Phase der interdiskursiven Faszinationsfigur: Drei mögliche Täter – drei Facetten ‚Jack the Rippers‘ ................................................... 41 4. ‚Jack the Ripper‘ in Literatur und Film des 20. Jahrhunderts ............ 45 4.1 ‚Jack the Ripper‘ in der Literatur ......................................................... 45 4.1.1 Marie Belloc Lowndes: The Lodger (1911/1913) ................................................ 47 4.1.2 Ellery Queen: A Study in Terror (1966/89) .......................................................... 54 4.1.3 Robert Bloch: Der Ripper. Ein unheimlicher Roman (1984) ............................... 59 4.1.4 Ernst Jünger: Eine gefährliche Begegnung (1985) ............................................. 64 4.1.5 Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell: From Hell (1991-1999) ......................................... 68 4.2 ‚Jack the Ripper‘ in filmischen Adaptionen ........................................ 69 4.2.1 Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger. a story of the london fog (GB 1927) ................... 70 4.2.2 Jess Franco: Jack the Ripper. Der Dirnenmörder von London (D/CH 1976) ...... 72 4.2.3 Bob Clark: MURDER BY DECREE (GB/CDN 1979) ................................................. 74 4.2.4 David Wickes: Jack the Ripper. Das Ungeheuer von London (USA/AUS 1988) . 76 4.3 Fazit ................................................................................................... 78 5. ‚Jack the Ripper‘ in Verschwörungsdiskursen ................................... 80 5.1 Vorüberlegungen ............................................................................... 80 5.2 Die ‚Königliche Verschwörungstheorie‘ – Zweig 1 .............................. 82 5.2.1 Dr. Thomas Stowell: Jack the Ripper – A Solution (1970) ................................... 82 5.2.2 Frank Spiering: Prince Jack (1978) ..................................................................... 85 5.3 Die ‚Königliche Verschwörungstheorie‘ – Zweig 2 .............................. 92 5.3.1 Elwyn Jones/John Lloyd: The Ripper File (1975) ................................................ 92 5.3.2 Stephen Knight: The Final Solution (1976) ......................................................... 97 5.3.3 Melvyn Fairclough: The Ripper & The Royals (1991) ....................................... 103 5.3.4 Exkurs: Sunday Times-Herald of Chicago (1895) ............................................. 108 5.4 Zwischenfazit .................................................................................... 111 5.5 Die ‚Königliche Verschwörungtheorie‘ in der Gegenwartsliteratur .... 111 5.5.1 Alan Moore/Eddie Campbell: From Hell (1991-1999/2010) .............................. 111 5.5.2 Anne Perry: Die Verschwörung von Whitechapel (2003) .................................. 127 5.6 Fazit ................................................................................................. 133 2 6. ‚Jack the Ripper‘ im religiösen Diskurs ............................................. 135 6.1 Vorüberlegungen .............................................................................. 135 6.2 Der religiöse Diskurs in der Gegenwartsliteratur .............................. 135 6.2.1 Boris Akunin: Die Schönheit der toten Mädchen (2004) .................................... 135 6.2.2 Wolfgang Hohlbein: Horus (2007) ...................................................................... 142 6.2.3 Martin Clauß: Der Atem des Rippers (2008) ...................................................... 148 6.3 Fazit .................................................................................................. 158 7. ‚Jack the Ripper‘ im kriminaltechnischen Diskurs ............................ 160 7.1 Vorüberlegungen .............................................................................. 160 7.2 Der kriminaltechnische Diskurs in der Gegenwartsliteratur .............. 165 7.2.1 Patricia Cornwell: Wer war Jack the Ripper? (2002) ........................................ 165 7.2.2 Cody McFadyen: Die Blutline (2006) .................................................................. 173 7.3 Fazit .................................................................................................. 180 8. ‚Jack the Ripper‘ in weiteren Diskurskonstellationen ...................... 182 8.1 Vorüberlegungen .............................................................................. 182 8.2 Weitere Diskurskonstellationen in der Gegenwartsliteratur .............. 183 8.2.1 Michael Peinkofer: Der Schatten von Thot (2007) ............................................. 183 8.2.2 Richard Laymon: Der Ripper (2010) ................................................................. 191 8.2.3 Felix Palma: Die Landkarte der Zeit (2010) ....................................................... 199 8.3 Fazit .................................................................................................. 206 9. Zusammenfassung: Die interdiskursive Faszinationsfigur ‚Jack the Ripper‘ in der Gegenwartsliteratur ........................................................ 208 9.1 Der Täter bekommt einen Namen .................................................... 208 9.2 Das äußere Erscheinungsbild ‚Jack the Rippers‘ ............................. 210 9.3 Das Motiv: Lustmörder vs. rationales Motiv ...................................... 212 9.4 Komplizen und Mitwisser .................................................................. 214 9.5 Der geografische Ort ....................................................................... 215 10. Exkurs: Der Fall des ‚Yorkshire Rippers‘ ......................................... 217 10.1 Kriminalhistorische Fakten .............................................................. 217 10.2 David Peace: Red Riding Quartett (2006-2009) ............................ 219 11. Resümee und Ausblick ...................................................................... 226 Literaturverzeichnis ................................................................................. 231 3 1. Vorbemerkungen Es ist eine der schrecklichsten Mordserien der modernen Kriminalgeschichte – und durch ihre Rätselhaftigkeit zugleich die faszinierendste: The series of shocking crimes perpetrated in Whitechapel, which on Saturday culmi- nated in the murder of the woman Chapman, is something so distinctly outside the or- dinary range of human experience that it has created a kind of stupor extending far beyond the district where the murders were committed. One may search the ghastliest efforts of fiction and fail to find anything to surpass these crimes in diabolical audacity. … But, so far as we know, nothing in fact or fiction equals these outrages at once in their horrible nature and in the effect which they have produced upon the popular im- agination.1 Mit diesen Worten skizziert die Londoner Zeitung The Times im Herbst des Jahres 1888 die ungeklärten, brutalen Morde, die seit den Sommermonaten desselben Jahres an fünf Prostituierten im Londoner Stadtteil Whitechapel verübt wurden. Von dem Täter fehlt jede Spur. The police were in an unenviable position.
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