Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
Karin Bauer
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN: B00541YWJU
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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. But in the years leading up to her leap into the fray, Meinhof was known throughout Europe as a respected journalist, who informed and entertained her loyal readers with monthly magazine columns.
What impels someone to abandon middle-class privilege for the sake of revolution? In the 1960s, Meinhof began to see the world in increasingly stark terms: the United States was emerging as an unstoppable superpower, massacring a tiny country overseas despite increasingly popular dissent at home; and Germany appeared to be run by former Nazis. Never before translated into English, Meinhof's writings show a woman increasingly engaged in the major political events and social currents of her time. In her introduction, Karin Bauer tells Meinhof's mesmerizing life story and her political coming-of-age; Nobel Prize–winning author Elfriede Jelinek provides a thoughtful reflection on Meinhof's tragic failure to be heard; and Meinhof ’s daughter—a relentless critic of her mother and of the Left—contributes an afterword that shows how Meinhof's ghost still haunts us today.
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Independence, she wrote, is illusory and a mere alibi to sell magazines and give the impression of freedom of speech. Meinhof said that columns are “a fraud for the readers, self-deception, a personality cult,” and columnists are “powerless individuals, outsiders.” Meinhof thus fundamentally questioned her own role as a columnist and “star,” and as a writer who stands on the outside, at a distance—observing rather than participating. For Meinhof, collective authorship may have offered the.
From the Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik to konkret, and from the Süddeutsche Zeitung to the Frankfurter Rundschau to Diskus.10 Anyone who voices a protest against arms buildup or argues for the freedom of speech is deemed to be acting within a fifth column. Open opposition is not viewed as a demonstration of our democratic rights, even duties; instead, it is perceived as belonging to the realm of deliberate obfuscation and perversion. Under the heading “Subverting the West.
Jewish property, and whose resignation the socialist and liberal students of Berlin demanded on the twentieth anniversary of July 20. The people who so easily talk about “conscience” did not listen to their own consciences when they gave this man his job; and they do not listen to their own consciences when they renew the attacks on Communists and accuse non-Communists of being fellow travellers, when they plan the renewed suppression of basic rights, or when they want nuclear weapons in Germany.
POLEMIC AGAINST RUDOLF AUGSTEIN AND HIS GANG The blast that catapulted the student and extra-parliamentary opposition groups into the international as well as the local limelight, into the greater and the lesser public eye, was triggered by the shot that killed Benno Ohnesorg in Berlin on June 2, 1967. Since then, this oppositional movement has caught the attention of the international press, and has become the stuff of conversations at the dinner table. Since then, it has been making headlines.
1967):Dutschke demonstrates impressive learning and intellectual discipline but his views on a future society are unclear if not confused . . . Overturning the existing order (Dutschke), changing society (Lefèvre)6: these are big objectives. But since they are obviously beyond the reach of the students, they are nothing but big words . . . I think it is not too much to ask that the students at least clarify their objectives if they cannot explain them . . . At the moment, all their.