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. Christopher ryan german literature undergraduate student memorial university of newfoundland. Meinhof, mahler, ensslin studienstiftung des deutschen volkes. Berndt andreas baader 6 may 1943 18 october 1977 was one of the first leaders of the west german leftwing militant organization red army faction, also commonly known as the baadermeinhof group. Ulrike marie meinhof was born in 1934 in oldenburg, germany. She was arrested in 1972, charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal association. The weather underground, the red army faction, and. Ulrike meinhof has appeared in the following books. 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 interviewed in 1970 turn on annotations for english translation duration. In a lullaby, the good lord threatens the child not to wake him in the morning.
The author worked with ulrike meinhof together at the magazine konkret from. Professor ulrike hanna meinhof modern languages and. On august 27th 1974, ulrike meinhof was transferred to berlin due to her involvement in the liberation of baader in 1970. Meinhof, the former star journalist turned leftwing terrorist, has never had an englishlanguage book devoted to her until now. Ulrike meinhof was a close friend of the authorss family and timon koulmasis was brought up with the her twin daughters. Ulrike hanna meinhof is professor of german and cultural studies. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, isbn. This is an exlibrary book and may have the usual libraryused book markings inside. Ulrike meinhof appeared sick and barely perceived the presence of mahler. This book, like all lenins teachings, is a corrective against the tendency to base party tactics on the naked opposition of two classes, capital and labour irrespective of survivals and intermediates, which lenin elsewhere describes as a vulgarisation of marx. Ulrike marie meinhof 7 october 1934 9 may 1976 was a german leftwing militant. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most.
The name was applied to the nascent terrorist organization after convicted arsonist andreas baader was freed from police custody in west berlin with the help of famous journalist ulrike meinhof. Ulrike marie meinhof 7 october 1934 9 may 1976 was a west german farleft militant. Baadermeinhof bande or baadermeinhof gruppe depending on how one looks at it, the baadermeinhof gang came into existence on 2 april 1968, when andreas baader and his girlfriend, gudrun ensslin, firebombed frankfurts kaufhaus schneider department store, or it came into being two years later when the famed leftwing journalist ulrike meinhof helped to break. Her writings are infused with a volatile mix of anger and revolutionary optimism. The most comprehensive book centered on the history and analysis of the. Without the many individual donations during the past year, the ulrike meinhof archive uma could not have survived. But on the other hand, the spirit of this book, which cannot be conveyed in. Her research combines discourse analysis, multimodal text analysis, ethnography and oral history. Ulrike meinhof gertrude, ulrike marie meinhof 7 october. She explained the struggle she fought with raf at her trial as follows. It was during their stay in jordan that the raf forged ties to abu hassan, a specialist in guerrilla tactics and a famous fighter for the palestinian liberation organization, plo, and member of the fatha. The antiimperialistic struggle, if it is to be more than mere chatter.
She cofounded the red army faction rote armee fraktion in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly leftwing magazine konkret. Both have since grown up to be writers and vocal opponents of their mothers politics. She is the head of the department for european policy and the study of democracy. Everybody talks about the weather also makes clear something that is often lost when discussing meinhof. Her father died of cancer in 1940, causing her mother to take in. The book details their flaws and faults but also inquires about their histories which led to this life. While they were guilty of such criminal acts, there were motives for it. In 1936, her family moved to jena when her father, art historian dr. The author worked with ulrike meinhof together at the magazine konkret from 1966 to 1969. Her father died of cancer in 1940, causing her mother to take in a boarder, renate riemeck, to make money.
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. Violence as a political and artistic weapon in selected. Ulrike meinhof was a the journalist who abandoned her career for the group but it was gundrun ensslin who was really in charge behind her lover and partner, andreas baader. Here is a selection of her columns from 1960 to 1968, showing how she tried to inform her readers about the. He followed her development from protest to resistance and ultimately to terrorism while working for konkret and the ndr north german broadcasting agency. Professor ulrike hanna meinhof is an emeritus professor of modern languages at the university of southampton. Ulrike meyfarth frankfurt del main, 1956 atleta alemana. Ulrike meinhof oldenburg, 1934stuttgart, 1976 periodista y revolucionaria alemana. Werner meinhof, became director of the citys museum. 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.
Ulrike meinhof was judged by baader as useless, a comment that she accepted without contradicting him. 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. Peiffers examination of ulrike meinhof s brain led him to the dubious conclusion that an operation to remove a benign tumor in 1962 caused damage significant enough to have contributed directly to her subsequent terrorist behavior it uses the austrian johann kresniks ulrike meinhof 19902006 alongside the czech pavel mikulastiks tatort. Ulrike marie meinhof author of everybody talks about the.
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