However, she went on to claim a historical identity with the jews of the warsaw ghetto, who had tried without arms to start a. Ulrike marie meinhof 7 october 1934 9 may 1976 was a german leftwing militant. Her father died of cancer in 1940, causing her mother to take in a boarder, renate riemeck, to make money. This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the ulrike meinhof page. The baader meinhof complex world socialist web site. Interview mit jutta ditfurth zu ihrem buch ulrike meinhof. Werner meinhof, became director of the citys museum. In its best times before the student protests erupted, konkret sold 20,000, but was much more widely read peters, p. Here is a selection of her columns from 1960 to 1968, showing how she tried to inform her readers about the. A depressed ulrike meinhof, soon to be the worlds most famous female terrorist, is interviewed in her berlin apartment.
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. Werner meinhof himself became a curator of the jena municipal museum. If its your first time on the site, or youre looking for something specific, it can be difficult to know where to start. Ulrike hanna meinhof is professor of german and cultural studies. Andreas baader, gudrun ensslin and jancarl raspe are likewise found dead in their cells on the morning of october 18. 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 meinhof october 7, 1934 may 9, 1976 was radical leftwing journalist.
Professor ulrike hanna meinhof is an emeritus professor of modern languages at the university of southampton. Abstract the revolutionary year of 1968 was a global phenomenon. 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. Ulrike meinhof was born on october 7th 1934 to ingeborg and werner meinhof in oldenburg, northern germany. Jutta ditfurths most popular book is ulrike meinhof. 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. 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. 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. 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. See more ideas about red army, law of war and army. 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. I just see that wikipedia has a much much higher circulation for the late 60s. Professor ulrike hanna meinhof modern languages and.
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. Wobdzeli so 1970 na baaderwuswobodzenju a 1975 na pjec bombowych atentatach z w cylku styri smjertnymi woporami. Ulrike meinhof is already dead by this time, found hanged in her prison cell. 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. Ulrike meinhof is without doubt one of the most famous female terrorists in history. I am ulrike meinhof, west germanys most notorious woman. She gave birth to twin girls, regine and bettina, on september 21, 1962. Meinhof, the journalist was as popular as rudolf augstein. Violence as a political and artistic weapon in selected.
Meinhof, the former star journalist turned leftwing terrorist, has never had an englishlanguage book devoted to her until now. Ulrike meinhof interviewed in 1970 turn on annotations. Her family on her fathers side was known for producing protestant theologians. 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. She was arrested in 1972, and eventually charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal association. 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.
A historical and contemporary anthology, edited by marvin perry and frederick m. 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. Christopher ryan german literature undergraduate student memorial university of newfoundland. 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. In 1936, her family moved to jena when her father, art historian dr. She was arrested in 1972, charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal association. Ulrike meinhof oldenburg, 1934stuttgart, 1976 periodista y revolucionaria alemana. Ulrike meinhof is currently considered a single author. Ulrike meinhof was born in 1934 in oldenburg, germany. With this, he concurs with robert fine, who attempted to. 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. Ulrike meinhof interviewed in 1970 turn on annotations for. However, she puts an end to several myths which have come to.
Jutta ditfurth ermittlungen uber ulrike meinhof youtube. 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. Baaders cuffs are removed and he and meinhof set to work. 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. 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. On her website she also calls for donations for the mantaining the ulrike meinhof archive.
Her research combines discourse analysis, multimodal text analysis, ethnography and oral history. Ulrike marie meinhof 7 october 1934 9 may 1976 was a west german farleft militant. 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. Jutta ditfurth has 15 books on goodreads with 343 ratings. She cofounded the red army faction rote armee fraktion in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly leftwing magazine konkret. Two guards get out and escort a handcuffed andreas baader to the front door. On her website she also calls for donations for the mantaining the ulrike meinhof archive combine editions. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. 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. O andor be my guestat one of the stage readings in connection with ulrike meinhofs 75th birthday youd be guaranteed a very good seat.
W lece 1972 bu zajata a 1976 w swojej celi mortwa namakana. An elderly employee of the institute, georg linke, escorts them to the reading room, where ulrike meinhof waits. Ulrike meinhof sat at the foot of the bed in her west berlin apartment, thumbing matches and cigarettes between her fingers. Given this fact, everybody talks about the weather is an excellent addition to the available literature.
The author, jutta ditfurth, is a journalist and politician with a history in the environmental movement. Without the many individual donations during the past year, the ulrike meinhof archive uma could not have survived. Her main areas of research currently involve ethnographic research in european border communities and a comparative. 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.
Oct 30, 2008 ulrike meinhof is already dead by this time, found hanged in her prison cell. 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. It is important to establish from the start that ditfurth is no apologist. 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. Dec 20, 2007 a depressed ulrike meinhof, soon to be the worlds most famous female terrorist, is interviewed in her berlin apartment. 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. The baadermeinhof gang lives on in children of the revolution. 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. The libcom library contains nearly 20,000 articles. She wrote two books on the rote armee fraktion, one of them is a biography of ulrike meinhof. She studied philosophy, sociology and german literature, engaged herself politically on the left in the antinuclearmovement in the late 50s.
O photo from 1956, showing ulrike meinhof as a student cf. Ingeborgs side of the family had its roots in hesse. 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. Germany in shock at release of baadermeinhof killer the. 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. Upon the early death of their parents, both were raised by the historian and peace activist renate riemeck. 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. Schweitzer, david hirsh has argued that it is a standard misreading of marx to say that marx was an antisemite. 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.
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