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Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist, author and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-ca…
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culture · German left-wing militant, journalist and author (1934–1976) · journalist · writer · sociologist · screenwriter · also Ulrike Meinhof, Ulrike Marie Meinhof, Meinhof
Born 7 October 1934 · Died 9 May 1976 · Q76543
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,913 Wikipedia readers in one day, 14.4× the usual 342, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 2 entries
Tagesspiegel: Von der Starkolumnistin zur Terroristin: Wie Ulrike Meinhof mit ihrem Sprung in den Untergrund die RAF berühmt machte
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Morgenpost: RAF: Die Verhaftung von Ulrike Meinhof – Lehrer spielte Schlüsselrolle
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2022· 2 entries
NWZonline: „Ulrike Meinhof wurde abgestraft“
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NWZonline: RAF: Die Beweggründe von Ulrike Meinhof
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2019· 1 entry
Fr: Der schroffe Schritt der Ulrike Meinhof
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2016· 1 entry
Die Tageszeitung: Chronik Deutsche Jahre: Ulrike Meinhof, die alte Bundesrepublik und die Rote Armee Fraktion
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2012· 1 entry
Deutschlandfunk: RAF-Terroristin Ulrike Meinhof verhaftet
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2006· 1 entry
Tagesspiegel: Panorama: Ulrike Meinhof?
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1996· 1 entry
Entitled Deutsche Krieger, a substantial portion of which consists of audio recordings of and about Meinhof
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1978· 2 entries
The committee published its report, concluding that: "The formal claim that Ulrike Meinhof committed suicide by hanging is unfounded, given the fact that the investigation results reasonably converge to the conclusion th
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Dario Fo and Franca Rame wrote the monologue Moi, Ulrike, je crie
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1977· 3 entries
“You can stand up and fight only while you are alive. If they say I committed suicide, be sure that it was murder.”
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Made (without approval) and kept for a long time the death masks of Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe
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“You can stand up and fight only while you are alive. If they say I committed suicide, be sure that it was a murder.”
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1976· 2 entries
Died 1976-05-09.
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“Ulrike Mainhod is Dead - Let's Rescue the Living”
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1975· 1 entry
The Italian singer-songwriter Claudio Lolli published the song Incubo Numero Zero (Nightmare #0), with the verse "turn off the light, thought Ulrike", and more
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1972· 2 entries
Was arrested that June and spent the rest of her life in custody, largely isolated from outside contact
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“A Letter from a Prisoner in Isolation”
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1970· 1 entry
Which focused on a group of West Berlin girls in juvenile detention; by the time it was scheduled to be aired, she was wanted for her part in the violent escape from police custody of Baader, and its broadcast was delaye
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1962· 1 entry
Meinhof had a benign brain tumor surgically removed; the 1976 autopsy showed that remnants of the tumor and surgical scar tissue impinged on her amygdala
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1961· 1 entry
Meinhof married the co-founder and publisher of konkret, Klaus Rainer Röhl
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1959· 1 entry
Meinhof joined the banned Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later began working at the magazine konkret, a monthly which, until 1964, had clandestine financing from the East German government
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1958· 1 entry
Spent a short time on the AStA (German: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss, or General Committee of Students) of the university and wrote articles for various student newspapers
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1957· 1 entry
Transferred to the University of Münster, where she met the Spanish Marxist intellectual Manuel Sacristán (who later translated and edited some of her writings), joined the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (SD
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1952· 1 entry
Meinhof took her Abitur at a school in Weilburg
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1946· 1 entry
The family moved back to Oldenburg after Jena fell under Soviet occupation as a result of the Yalta agreement
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1940· 1 entry
Causing her mother to take in a boarder, Renate Riemeck, to make money
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-10-07.
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