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| On Nov. 11, ], the ''Wiesbadener Kurier'' newspaper published a story on the Duggan affair, under the headline "Why British Media Probably Wrongly Doubt the Investigations of the Wiesbaden Police." The article featured official statements from a spokesman for Chief Prosecutor Dieter Arlet, and began with a question: "Did a student from London really jump in front of a car with the intention of committing suicide? British newspapers have publicized doubt about this description of the Wiesbaden Prosecutor's Office and base this on the conclusion of a coroner. But that judgment is in fact different than the way it is reported in Great Britain." | On Nov. 11, ], the ''Wiesbadener Kurier'' newspaper published a story on the Duggan affair, under the headline "Why British Media Probably Wrongly Doubt the Investigations of the Wiesbaden Police." The article featured official statements from a spokesman for Chief Prosecutor Dieter Arlet, and began with a question: "Did a student from London really jump in front of a car with the intention of committing suicide? British newspapers have publicized doubt about this description of the Wiesbaden Prosecutor's Office and base this on the conclusion of a coroner. But that judgment is in fact different than the way it is reported in Great Britain." | ||
| On April 1, ], Baroness ] of Vernham Dean met with Erica Duggan, and |
On April 1, ], Baroness ] of Vernham Dean met with Erica Duggan, and announced her intention to work with the Duggan family to persuade German authorities to reopen the Duggan file. Later in 2004, articles appeared in the London ''Independent'' and the ''Washington Post,'' alleging that the Schiller Institute played some part in the death of Duggan. | ||
| In an article in the LaRouche publication ''Executive Intelligence Review'', Jeffrey Steinberg strongly denies the Institute had any connection to Duggan's death, and alleges that Duggan told other youth attending the conference that he was suffering from ] which, Steinberg says, can cause ]. | In an article in the LaRouche publication ''Executive Intelligence Review'', Jeffrey Steinberg strongly denies the Institute had any connection to Duggan's death, and alleges that Duggan told other youth attending the conference that he was suffering from ] which, Steinberg says, can cause ]. | ||
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The Schiller Institute was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984, and a second conference in Washington, D.C., in 1985, by Helga Zepp LaRouche, her husband, the controversial American figure Lyndon LaRouche, and American Civil Rights movement leader Amelia Boynton Robinson.
The Schiller Institute is one of many institutions connected to the international political and philosophical movement of Lyndon LaRouche, which is regarded by some as a dangerous far-right (or far-left) cult (see LaRouche's critics,) and by others as a legitimate movement. The Institute's published aim is to seek to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher Friedrich Schiller to what it calls the "contemporary world crisis," emphasizing Schiller's concept of the interdependence of classical artistic beauty and republican political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man.
Musical aims
IIn 1988 the Schiller Institute initiated a campaign to return to the so-called "Verdi tuning" in the world of classical music, so called because it was Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi who originally waged a battle to stop the arbitrary rising of the pitch to which orchestras are tuned.
The "Verdi tuning" is one where C=256HZ, or A=432HZ, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to anywhere from A=440 to A in the 450+ range. Many prominent singers and instrumentalists actively campaigned for the Schiller Institute's proposal, including several who performed recitals for the Institute to demonstrate the different quality of the Verdi tuning, compared with contemporary tuning.
These included Norbert Brainin, former First Violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, and the following vocalists: William Warfield (baritone), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), and Piero Cappuccilli (baritone). Other well known vocalists who endorsed the initiative include Shirley Verrett (soprano), Joan Sutherland (soprano), George Shirley (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Sherrill Milne (baritone), Fedora Barbier (mezzosoprano), Grace Bumbry (soprano), Elly Ameling (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Kurt Moll (basso), Marilyn Horne (mezzosoprano), and Ruggero Raimondi (basso).
The Jeremiah Duggan case
In October 2004, a British inquest heard allegations that the Schiller Institute was a dangerous cult that may have used mind-control techniques on a student who subsequently died after running across a busy road in Wiesbaden.
In March 2003, Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish student from London, attended a Schiller Institute conference in Wiesbaden, held to oppose the United States invasion of Iraq. He learned of the conference after being handed a LaRouche newspaper outside the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was studying.
After attending a meeting addressed by Lyndon LaRouche himself, Duggan telephoned his mother in England at 4 a.m., in what sounded to her like a state of panic, to say he "wanted out," was "frightened" and "in deep trouble," before the line went dead. Forty-five minutes later, Duggan ran across an autobahn and was killed.
German police (BKA) concluded that Duggan had committed suicide, but a British inquest later ruled that Duggan had died while in a "state of terror," according to eyewitnesses, and that there was no evidence to support a verdict of suicide. Duggan's family have hired a Berlin lawyer to have the German suicide verdict quashed and the German police investigation re-opened.
Initially Duggan's mother, Erica, a former school teacher, met with representatives of the Schiller Institute for several hours in what those representatives describe as a "symphathetic" meeting. By July of 2003, her attitude had changed, and she now alleges that her son was brain-washed by members of the Schiller Institute, which she described in court as an anti-Semitic political cult. Her son had told her and his French girlfriend, in telephone calls during his stay in Wiesbaden, that he had challenged the Institute's anti-Semitic views and had told them he was Jewish, according to Erica Duggan's testimony to the inquest.
On Nov. 11, 2003, the Wiesbadener Kurier newspaper published a story on the Duggan affair, under the headline "Why British Media Probably Wrongly Doubt the Investigations of the Wiesbaden Police." The article featured official statements from a spokesman for Chief Prosecutor Dieter Arlet, and began with a question: "Did a student from London really jump in front of a car with the intention of committing suicide? British newspapers have publicized doubt about this description of the Wiesbaden Prosecutor's Office and base this on the conclusion of a coroner. But that judgment is in fact different than the way it is reported in Great Britain."
On April 1, 2004, Baroness Elizabeth Symons of Vernham Dean met with Erica Duggan, and announced her intention to work with the Duggan family to persuade German authorities to reopen the Duggan file. Later in 2004, articles appeared in the London Independent and the Washington Post, alleging that the Schiller Institute played some part in the death of Duggan.
In an article in the LaRouche publication Executive Intelligence Review, Jeffrey Steinberg strongly denies the Institute had any connection to Duggan's death, and alleges that Duggan told other youth attending the conference that he was suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder which, Steinberg says, can cause paranoia.
External Links
Material on the Duggan case
- No Joke (the effect LaRouche has on young recruits) – Washington Post, October 2004
- The cult and the candidate by Terry Kirby, July 2004 (The Independent of London)
- The Bizarre Case of Baroness Symons – LaRouche response to the recent Independent and Washington Post articles