Klar was a member of the socalled second generation red army faction, the terrorist organisation founded by the militant leftists andreas baader and ulrike meinhof at the end of the 1960s. Dec 20, 2007 a depressed ulrike meinhof, soon to be the worlds most famous female terrorist, is interviewed in her berlin apartment. O andor be my guestat one of the stage readings in connection with ulrike meinhofs 75th birthday youd be guaranteed a very good seat. But now she was making it clear, and it was on these grounds that the action of the black september in munich was to be praised. Germany in shock at release of baadermeinhof killer the. Her research combines discourse analysis, multimodal text analysis, ethnography and oral history. The baader meinhof complex world socialist web site. The baadermeinhof complex shows us the dread moment when ulrike tries to give up bettina and her sister to a palestinian orphanage so they can be raised in the struggle children of the. Given this fact, everybody talks about the weather is an excellent addition to the available literature. Schweitzer, david hirsh has argued that it is a standard misreading of marx to say that marx was an antisemite. Werner meinhof himself became a curator of the jena municipal museum. O photo from 1956, showing ulrike meinhof as a student cf.
I am ulrike meinhof, west germanys most notorious woman. She rarely looked up, shooting stolid, vacant glances while speaking to a journalist from german broadcaster n3 about the difficulties facing political women in modern germany. However, she puts an end to several myths which have come to. Professor ulrike hanna meinhof is an emeritus professor of modern languages at the university of southampton. Her father died of cancer in 1940, causing her mother to take in a boarder, renate riemeck, to make money. W lece 1972 bu zajata a 1976 w swojej celi mortwa namakana. Andreas baader, gudrun ensslin and jancarl raspe are likewise found dead in their cells on the morning of october 18.
On her website she also calls for donations for the mantaining the ulrike meinhof archive. From 1959 to 1969 she was a columnist for the magazine konkret, one of the most important publications of the far left in germany then and now. On her website she also calls for donations for the mantaining the ulrike meinhof archive combine editions. Jutta ditfurths most popular book is ulrike meinhof. If its your first time on the site, or youre looking for something specific, it can be difficult to know where to start. The author, jutta ditfurth, is a journalist and politician with a history in the environmental movement. Ulrike meinhof is without doubt one of the most famous female terrorists in history. Ulrike meinhof interviewed in 1970 turn on annotations for. Werner meinhof married art historian ingeborg guthardt died 1949 with whom he had two daughters, wienke born 1931 and ulrike meinhof born 1934, future founding member of the red army faction raf.
He studied history of art in his hometown under paul frankl, where he got to know the painter walter timmling and the future art historian hellmuth. She was a cofounder of the left wing german terrorist group the red army faction raf which also became known as the baadermeinhof gang after the two gang leaders despite the fact that meinhof was not really a leader of the gang. She wrote two books on the rote armee fraktion, one of them is a biography of ulrike meinhof. Meinhof, the former star journalist turned leftwing terrorist, has never had an englishlanguage book devoted to her until now. Christopher ryan german literature undergraduate student memorial university of newfoundland. The stammheim suicides 1 in previous installments we have seen how the red army faction survived the arrest of its leading members andreas baader, gudrun ensslin, ulrike meinhof, holger meins, and jan carl raspe in 1972. However, she went on to claim a historical identity with the jews of the warsaw ghetto, who had tried without arms to start a. Aug 26, 2011 the baadermeinhof complex shows us the dread moment when ulrike tries to give up bettina and her sister to a palestinian orphanage so they can be raised in the struggle children of the. Ulrike meinhof is currently considered a single author. Synopsis before she and others formed the red army faction, known to the press as the baadermeinhof gang, meinhof 193476 was a respected german journalist read throughout europe. Ulrike marie meinhof 7 october 1934 9 may 1976 was a german leftwing militant. Ulrike meinhof oldenburg, 1934stuttgart, 1976 periodista y revolucionaria alemana.
No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like ulrike meinhof, who formed, with andreas baader and gudrun ensslin, the red army faction raf, also known as the baader meinhof gang, notorious for its bombings and kidnappings of the wealthy in the 1970s. She gave birth to twin girls, regine and bettina, on september 21, 1962. I just see that wikipedia has a much much higher circulation for the late 60s. Jutta ditfurth ermittlungen uber ulrike meinhof youtube. Ulrike meinhof is already dead by this time, found hanged in her prison cell. With this, he concurs with robert fine, who attempted to.
She was a cofounder of the left wing german terrorist group the red army faction raf which also became known as the baader meinhof gang after the two gang leaders despite the fact that meinhof was not really a leader of the gang. Ulrike hanna meinhof is professor in the department of modern languages at the university of southampton, previously having worked as a professor and chair of cultural studies at the university of bradford. Ingeborgs side of the family had its roots in hesse. A historical and contemporary anthology, edited by marvin perry and frederick m. Here is a selection of her columns from 1960 to 1968, showing how she tried to inform her readers about the. She cofounded the red army faction rote armee fraktion in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly leftwing magazine konkret. Ulrike meinhof a family of her own on december 27th in 1961, ulrike meinhof married klaus rainer rohl, a communist by conviction and the founder of konkret. Ulrike marie meinhof 7 october 1934 9 may 1976 was a west german farleft militant. Through columnism, the leftwing position that was developed by many and came to prominence in the move from theory to practice in the summer of 1967 and the winter of 196768, is reduced to the position of one individual, an isolated individual, to the views of an original, outrageous, nonconformist individual. Oct 04, 2007 the stammheim suicides 1 in previous installments we have seen how the red army faction survived the arrest of its leading members andreas baader, gudrun ensslin, ulrike meinhof, holger meins, and jan carl raspe in 1972. Abstract the revolutionary year of 1968 was a global phenomenon. Werner meinhof, became director of the citys museum. Jutta ditfurth has 15 books on goodreads with 343 ratings.
Interview mit jutta ditfurth zu ihrem buch ulrike meinhof. Wobdzeli so 1970 na baaderwuswobodzenju a 1975 na pjec bombowych atentatach z w cylku styri smjertnymi woporami. Frankfurtammain, in the summer of 2009 on the 7th october 2009 ulrike meinhof would have been 75 years old please make a donation to ensure the continued existence of the ulrike meinhof archive uma. In 1936, her family moved to jena when her father, art historian dr. Baaders cuffs are removed and he and meinhof set to work. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. She was arrested in 1972, and eventually charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal association.
No other figure embodies revolutionary politics and radical chic quite like ulrike meinhof, who formed, with andreas baader and gudrun ensslin, the red army faction raf, also known as the baadermeinhof gang, notorious for its bombings and kidnappings of the wealthy in the 1970s. Ulrike meinhof october 7, 1934 may 9, 1976 was radical leftwing journalist. The baadermeinhof gang lives on in children of the revolution. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. In its best times before the student protests erupted, konkret sold 20,000, but was much more widely read peters, p. A depressed ulrike meinhof, soon to be the worlds most famous female terrorist, is interviewed in her berlin apartment.
Ulrike hanna meinhof is professor of german and cultural studies. Nov 06, 2008 the scarcity of quality information on the badder meinhof groupred army faction that is available in english can be quite frustrating to both researchers and those casually interested in the history. Ulrike meinhof was born in 1934 in oldenburg, germany. The libcom library contains nearly 20,000 articles. Oct 30, 2008 ulrike meinhof is already dead by this time, found hanged in her prison cell. See more ideas about red army, law of war and army. Without the many individual donations during the past year, the ulrike meinhof archive uma could not have survived.
She cofounded the red army faction rote armee fraktion or raf in 1970, after having worked as a journalist for the monthly leftwing magazine konkret. Ulrike meinhof was born on october 7th 1934 to ingeborg and werner meinhof in oldenburg, northern germany. Research projects funded by the ahrc, the esrc, and the eu framework programmes have focused on the transnational and translocal networking of migrant artists from africa, on multi. Professor ulrike hanna meinhof modern languages and. She studied philosophy, sociology and german literature, engaged herself politically on the left in the antinuclearmovement in the late 50s. Ulrike meinhof interviewed in 1970 turn on annotations. Two guards get out and escort a handcuffed andreas baader to the front door. Everybody talks about the weather is an excellent addition to the tiny canon of english language books about the baadermeinhof era that gripped europe in the late 60s and 1970s. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the ulrike meinhof page. An elderly employee of the institute, georg linke, escorts them to the reading room, where ulrike meinhof waits. Meinhof, the journalist was as popular as rudolf augstein. Ulrike meinhof sat at the foot of the bed in her west berlin apartment, thumbing matches and cigarettes between her fingers.
Being born into the noble house of ditfurth, members of which had been noble ministeriales invested with hereditary administrative titles and offices in various regions of todays saxonyanhalt and lower saxony and elsewhere in the holy roman empire, a daughter of the. Made up of both previously unreleased archive material and the personnal recollections of those who were close to her, ulrike marie meinhof tries to uncover the true story of her radical drift. I am ulrike meinhof, famous west german journalist who left my former life when i helped arsonist andreas baader escape from police custody, giving rise to the socalled baadermeinhof gang a hateful name foist upon us by the pigs in the fascist springer press. Violence as a political and artistic weapon in selected. Jutta ditfurth gives a partly new portrait of her and of how the german state governed by law was set aside during rafs wave of violence, writes bjorn sandmark. Ulrike meinhof was clearly in no state to put forward a reasoned argument at the mahler trial, and she made no great effort to do so.
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