Astrid Proll

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Astrid Proll (born May 29, 1947 in Kassel ) is a German co-founder of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Red Army Fraction (RAF). She was involved in the liberation of Andreas Baader and was imprisoned from 1971 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. She then worked as a photographer, author and editor.

Life

Astrid Proll joined Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin , Horst Söhnlein and her older brother Thorwald Proll after they had been convicted of the department store arson on April 2, 1968 , but were initially released because of the appeal. She broke off her training as a photographer and followed them to Frankfurt to campaign against the placement of young people in closed reform homes. After the appeal proceedings were rejected in November 1969, she went underground with Baader and Ensslin, although they were not threatened with imprisonment themselves. Söhnlein started his prison sentence, a year later her brother Thorwald as well.

On May 6, 1971, Proll was arrested. She was housed in the “dead wing” of the Cologne-Ossendorf prison for 119 days and was the first RAF member to be isolated from other prisoners during this time. Ulrike Meinhof was later housed in the same cell . By the incommunicado shattered physically and mentally, the first trial was canceled against them. She was released on February 4, 1974 on incapacity . Shortly afterwards, Proll left illegally for Great Britain and went undetected for several years. There she worked under different names, including as a park attendant and car mechanic.

On September 15, 1978, Proll, who called herself "Anna Puttick" at the time, was arrested in London and extradited to the Federal Republic after a lawsuit lasting about a year . On February 22, 1980, she was sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment for robbery and forgery of documents ; the remainder of the sentence after the pre-trial detention in Germany and Great Britain was taken into account was suspended.

Proll has been working as a photographer, author and editor since the early 1980s. Among other things, she worked as a picture editor for the magazines Tempo , Der Spiegel and Time as well as the newspaper The Independent .

In 2004, as a former terrorist, she was denied entry to the United States to attend her mother's funeral.

Publications

  • Hans and Grete. Pictures from the RAF 1967–1977. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02597-1 .
  • Goodbye to London: Radical Art and Politics in the 70’s (catalog for the exhibition of the same name from June 26 to August 15, 2010 in the New Society for Fine Arts in Berlin). Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2739-6

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phantom shot , Der Spiegel , February 4, 1980
  2. ^ Search: Code name Rosi . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1971 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Gabriele Goettle: Astrid Proll tells of Dorothea Ridder: In the dead wing. In: taz.de . November 23, 2008, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  4. ^ Stefan Aust : The Baader Meinhof Complex . 1989 edition, p. 257.
  5. ↑ Brief chronology of the history of the RAF. Accessed on February 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Florian Möser: Facts and background to the film "The Baader Meinhof Complex" November 5, 2012
  7. ↑ Kate Connolly: Kate Connolly meets Astrid Proll. In: theguardian.com. October 6, 2002, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  8. ^ Norbert Leppert: Five and a half years for Astrid Proll , Frankfurter Rundschau , February 23, 1980
  9. ^ Former German RAF terrorist Proll is not allowed to go to the USA. In: derstandard.at . December 13, 2004, accessed February 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Proll, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist, co-founder of the Red Army faction
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel