The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex is a book by the journalist and former Spiegel editor-in-chief Stefan Aust . The book was first published in late 1985. In the other editions, additions were made based on the files of the Ministry for State Security that have been accessible since 1990 . In August 2008, a film adaptation based on the book by Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger was released .
Aust's book deals with the early history of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) under the leadership of Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof . It is considered the first comprehensive documentation on the RAF. The journalistic style of the book has been criticized in part. The book is still considered to be one of the most important and well-known descriptions of the RAF and is often referred to as the standard work on the subject.
The period covered includes the beginnings of the RAF in 1967/1968 at the time of the extra-parliamentary opposition , the protagonists' turn to terrorism , the Stammheim trial from May 1975 to April 1977 and the German autumn of 1977 with the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer from Landshut - Kidnapping and collective suicide of detained terrorists. Later developments, especially the so-called “third generation” of the RAF active in the 1980s, are not dealt with.
Naming
Even before the RAF was actually founded, a special commission on terrorism was founded at the Federal Criminal Police Office under the direction of Alfred Klaus . The book title The Baader-Meinhof-Complex was shaped by the organs entrusted with the investigations at the time, who named the investigations internally.
filming
The book was filmed in 2007/08 by director Uli Edel and producer and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger under the title Der Baader Meinhof Complex .
literature
- Stefan Aust: The Baader Meinhof Complex . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag , Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-455-08253-X (expanded and updated: 1997, ISBN 3-455-11230-7 ; paperback edition 1998, ISBN 3-442-12953-2 ; paperback edition 2008, ISBN 978- 3-442-46901-7 ; completely revised and expanded new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-50029-5 ).
- The Baader Meinhof Complex - The Audio Book . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-30621-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. on the criticism Christopher Tenfelde: The Red Army Fraction and the Criminal Justice. Anti-terror laws and their implementation in the Stammheim process. 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811399-3-8 , p. 21; and Oliver Gehrs: The mirror complex. How Stefan Aust turned the tide for himself. 2005, ISBN 3-426-27343-8 , p. 154.
- ↑ The Baader Meinhof Complex. Chapter 2.18, pp. 169–170.