Amelia R. is the great-granddaughter of the entrepreneur Max Wallach, who was driven out of Dachau on the pogrom night in 1938. The 24-year-old is an artist and deals with the past of her Jewish family in her works. In the meantime, she can work as a scholarship holder at the Ruckteschell Villa.
But that was not always so. Between January and June 2019, she was followed by a stalker with threatening and love emails. The man is schizophrenic. He is currently being tried at the Munich Regional Court II.
In 2017, the 22-year-old met the artist in a youth hostel in Munich. He fell in love with her. She embodied his desire to study in the United States. Later, as a result of his advanced illness, the man was taken up in Italy when he wanted to swim to the United States. Another time he was barefoot on the way to the airport. He was also found naked on the highway.
His love for the woman remained unanswered. Amelia R. didn't want to know anything about the man. And his affection turned into dislike. From then on he wrote death threats to the young woman like "I will shoot you, bang, bang, bang!" Or "I will kill you!" Even when he landed in the psychiatric ward again, he grabbed a fellow patient's tablet and wrote: " ... if you don't write me a message, I'll kill myself ... "
At first Amelia R. could not live in the Dachau artist villa. She hid in an apartment, engaged in personal protection and was initially unable to hold public workshops with other artists to avoid publicizing her presence. The 24-year-old had trouble sleeping and was unable to eat properly.
It wouldn't have had to go that far if the young man from Herten in North Rhine-Westphalia had taken his medication regularly. But some of them caused serious side effects. He did not want to have a depot injection. He now gets them regularly. The disease broke out shortly after graduating from high school. His brother-in-law remembered a red light that had flown across the room for the 22-year-old. The young man also told him about Amelia R. "I don't want her, but I have to get together with her," he had said. However, the brother-in-law reported that he never committed violence.
The process continues.
