Bettina Röhl

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Bettina Röhl (2005)

Bettina Röhl (born September 21, 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German journalist and author . Röhl u. a. known with publications about the past of the former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer .

Life

childhood

Bettina Röhl is the daughter of Ulrike Meinhof , the columnist for the magazine “ Beton” and later a terrorist for the Red Army faction , and of the then “ concrete” publisher, Klaus Rainer Röhl . She has a twin sister. Bettina Röhl first grew up with her parents in Hamburg and after their divorce in 1968 moved with her mother to Berlin, where she started school in the same year in the Protestant private school Queen Luise Foundation in Berlin-Dahlem .

After Baader was liberated in May 1970, Ulrike Meinhof went underground . At the age of seven, Röhl was kidnapped by RAF members who were friends with Meinhof, together with their twin sister, to a refugee camp in Sicily for four months in order to deprive their father, who had been granted provisional custody , of the children. On July 10, 1970 the twins Ulrike Meinhof were awarded. Until the final decision in the custody dispute, Klaus Rainer Röhl received the right to determine residence on August 3 . In September, the children were to be picked up from Sicily by a member of the Baader-Meinhof group and taken to a guerrilla camp in the Middle East. The former concrete editor Stefan Aust came before the action, freed the twins together with the RAF dropout Peter Homann and brought them back to their father. In her biography of Ulrike Meinhof, Jutta Ditfurth takes the view that she only wanted to protect her children from their father. Bettina Röhl expressly contradicted this in several interviews and an essay in the Spiegel .

education and profession

Bettina Röhl then grew up in middle-class circles in Hamburg. In 1982 she passed the Abitur at the Christianeum humanistic high school in Hamburg and then studied history and German in Hamburg and Perugia, Italy .

She has been working as a journalist since 1986, among others for the magazine Tempo , the men Vogue , the political magazine Cicero , the Hamburger Abendblatt and Spiegel TV . In her publications she often takes a critical look at the generation of 68 and their legacy.

Journalistic activity

Joschka Fischer affair 2001

At the beginning of January 2001, Bettina Röhl triggered a domestic political discussion about his remaining in office with the publication of photos from the past of the incumbent Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer . The pictures show Fischer, the future terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein and others beating a police officer in 1973. They were published by Röhl in Stern magazine and on her private homepage. The photo series by a press photographer was shot in 1973 on behalf of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , without it being known who was in the photos , and was examined by Röhl during book research in 2000 and its content was deciphered. In the archive of the ARD Tagesschau , Röhl discovered a film sequence of the same fight that Joschka Fischer showed in 1973 when the police officer was knocked down.

After Fischer had publicly admitted his involvement in violent actions against police officers, Röhl announced in an open letter to Federal President Johannes Rau that he would file a criminal complaint for attempted murder against Fischer, based on testimony she had researched about the life-threatening attack on the in 1976 with a Molotov cocktail Frankfurt police officer Jürgen Weber supported. She wrote, “It's about a media cartel that suppresses the truth. It's about a state of emergency. ”The photographer from whom she received the pictures obtained an injunction against her for distributing the pictures without his consent. Her handling of film material borrowed from ARD and the high prices she had charged for the recordings were also criticized in the media. In 2001 and 2002 she contributed to two articles for the television magazine Panorama , which dealt with Fischer's violent past as well as her research on the subject.

Röhl was criticized for her approach in connection with the publications about Joschka Fischer by domestic and foreign media, whereby conclusions were drawn about her motives from her biography and that of her parents. A few days after the start of the journalistic campaign against Fischer, the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne canceled the contract to publish Röhl's already announced Fischer biography Tell me, where you stand . The reason was: "The public campaign led by Bettina Röhl against our long-time author Joschka Fischer with all her available, including dubious means, prompted us to terminate the publishing contract with Bettina Röhl." Bettina Röhl felt herself in the further course of the discussion as the victim of a media smear campaign with the aim of washing Joschka Fischer clean by calling her credibility into question. In opinion polls in 2000 and 2001, without prejudice to Röhl's revelations, Fischer repeatedly held the top position among the most popular politicians in Germany.

Publications related to her mother

In the autumn of 2002, Röhl revealed in the Magdeburger Volksstimme that her mother Ulrike Meinhof's brain had not been buried, but had been kept in a vessel with formalin for decades and examined again in a Magdeburg clinic. The professors were then forbidden by an ethics committee to continue researching the brain or to publish their previous research. The Stuttgart public prosecutor's office reclaimed the brain from the professors, cremated it and handed the remains to the relatives. On December 22nd, 2002 the brain of Ulrike Meinhof was buried in the Trinity Cemetery III in Berlin-Mariendorf.

Bettina Röhl also wrote a story in the Rheinische Post , in der Welt and in the Berliner Morgenpost in 2003 about the hairdresser Udo Walz , who dyed Ulrike Meinhof's hair blonde in 1970 while she was underground. In it she claimed that Walz had consciously supported the fugitive. Walz had reported the haircut himself two years earlier and rejected the allegation that he recognized Meinhof in the customer and deliberately helped to camouflage her. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung took this episode as an occasion for criticism of the style of this high-profile settlement with the 68 generation. Röhl was portrayed as an unsuccessful publicist and “lonely outsider” who was “at best shown pity”, and referred to as a “terrorist's daughter”. Röhl initially successfully defended himself against the latter designation at the Munich Higher Regional Court , before the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment on the grounds that there was no "abuse in which the focus is not on the dispute in the matter, but on defamation of the person concerned".

RAF exhibition

Röhl participated with articles in the world , in Tagesspiegel , in the Rheinische Post from 2003 and until January 2005 with an article in Die Zeit and an interview for the taz and several television interviews in the long-standing discussion about a controversial RAF exhibition by Klaus Biesenbach , Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin , which finally took place in Berlin in 2005 under the title “On the Presentation of Terror: The RAF Exhibition” and dealt with the positioning of visual artists in relation to the RAF. Furthermore, in October 2006, as part of the premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's RAF farce Ulrike Maria Stuart, there was a dispute with the Hamburg Thalia Theater . Since Jelinek's text and Nicolas Stemann's staging - albeit heavily distorted and stylized - fall back on biographical details of the Röhl / Meinhof family, Bettina Röhl is said to have seen her personal rights violated, demanded changes to the text and threatened to obtain an injunction against the performance. After the Thaliatheater had crossed out all of Bettina Röhl's complained personal passages concerning her and her sister before the premiere, the theater and Bettina Röhl reached an amicable agreement.

feminism

In April 2005, Bettina Röhl wrote the trilogy Die Sex-Mythen des Feminismus , Die Gender Mainstreaming-Strategy and The Fall of Alice Schwarzer for the magazine Cicero ? , in which she emerged as a critic of gender mainstreaming and the radical feminism of the 1970s propagated by Alice Schwarzer in her book The Little Difference and Its Big Consequences .

She is critical to rejecting feminism. In her articles she accuses feminists like Alice Schwarzer of being hostile to men and demonizing the male genitals. So she says:

“This motif of the penis as a weapon and instrument of domination is an essential part of Schwarzer's doctrine. The extract of this kind of feminism could be summed up as follows: women are human, men have yet to be made human. "

On the occasion of the awarding of the Theodor W. Adorno Prize to the queer theorist , philosopher and literary scholar Judith Butler , Röhl spoke out in her column “Bettina Röhl direkt” in Wirtschaftswoche against what, according to Röhl, “gender ideology”.

In a later publication she described feminist currents as a “ crime against humanity ” and, in particular, gender mainstreaming as “spiritual arson”.

Sexual assault on New Year's Eve 2016

The ARD journalist Anja Reschke accused Tichys insight of having played down sexual assaults by migrants : “Reschke had deceived women and made them feel safe. Women who might not have gone to Cologne Central Station on New Year's Eve if Reschke hadn't propagated an all-clear warning? "

Welt online, Wirtschaftswoche, Tichy's insight

From May 2008 to May 2010, Bettina Röhl ran the regular blog “Sex, Power and Politics” for Welt online. From 2010 to 2012 she wrote for Spiegel Online , Weltwoche , Bild am Sonntag and a regular column for EMOTION magazine and others. a. From July 2012 to October 2014, Bettina Röhl wrote a weekly column for Wirtschaftswoche .online under the title "Bettina Röhl direkt", which she continued from October 2014 for the former editor-in-chief of Wirtschaftswoche Roland Tichy for Tichy's insight under the same title until January 2017 .

Publications (excerpt)

Books

  • On our own behalf: Meinhof meets Fischer. In: Klaus J. Groth, Joachim Schäfer (Hrsg.): Stigmatized: The terror of the do-gooders . Aton-Verlag, Unna 2003, ISBN 3-9807644-5-1
  • This is how communism is fun. Ulrike Meinhof, Klaus Rainer Röhl and the Konkret files . Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-434-50600-4 (a documentary of the same name (25 min.) On the subject was produced by Spiegel TV in 2007. )
  • "The RAF loves you": The Federal Republic in the intoxication of 68 - A family at the center of the movement. Heyne, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-453-20150-7

Newspaper and magazine articles

Web links

Wikiquote: Bettina Röhl  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Aust does not read, but tells the RAF story ; in: Schwäbische Zeitung from March 5, 2009.
  2. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Allegations of abuse: "Ulrike Meinhof was afraid for her children" . Interview with Jutta Ditfurth . Spiegel Online , May 7, 2010.
  3. ↑ Bettina Röhl: My parents . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2010, p. 120-123 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b Fabienne Hohl: Burned at the torch of truth: Analysis of the case of Joschka Fischer and Bettina Röhl . In: Medienheft , November 28, 2001, accessed October 27, 2013
  5. ↑ Mr. Kleinhans, how hard did Joschka Fischer really hit? In: WamS , January 7, 2001
  6. ↑ a b Andreas Cichowicz and Volker Steinhoff: The Joschka Fischer Files - A Journalist Searching for Truth . In: Panorama (NDR) from January 11, 2001, accessed on October 26, 2013
  7. ↑ Christoph Schult: Meinhof-Daughter: charges against Fischer for attempted murder . Spiegel Online , January 8, 2001; Retrieved October 28, 2013
  8. ↑ Röhl is no longer allowed to distribute Fischer photos . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , January 10, 2001
  9. ^ Temporary injunction: Röhl is no longer allowed to distribute Fischer photos . Spiegel Online , January 10, 2001
  10. ^ Andreas Cichowicz: New witnesses, explosive pictures - Joschka Fischer and his past . In: Panorama (NDR) from February 1, 2002; Retrieved October 26, 2013
  11. ↑ Vasco Boenisch: Strategy: Mood making. How to define and analyze campaign journalism - and how the Bildzeitung operates it. Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-45-3 , p. 185 ff.
  12. ↑ Kiepenheuer & Witsch terminates contract with Bettina Röhl: Attacks against Joschka Fischer are unacceptable . BuchMarkt.de, January 12, 2001; Retrieved October 28, 2013
  13. ↑ Politbarometer: FDP winner of the month . In: Die Welt , July 21, 2001
  14. ↑ Andreas Förster Who was Ulrike Meinhof? In: Berliner Zeitung , November 9, 2002, p. 3
  15. ^ Jürgen Dahlkamp: Dead angle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2002, p. 72 ( online ).
  16. ↑ Bettina Röhl: Blond and short and extremely bourgeois . In: Die Welt , September 3, 2003
  17. ↑ Star-Figaro Udo Walz: "I didn't recognize Ulrike Meinhof back then" . In: Die Welt , September 4, 2003
  18. ↑ The Terrorist and the Figaro . In: FAZ , September 4, 2003
  19. ^ BGH, judgment of December 5, 2006, Az. VI ZR 45/05
  20. ↑ Bettina Röhl: The power of sympathizers. In: Die Welt , August 11, 2003.
  21. ↑ Bettina Röhl: The horny perpetrators. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 15, 2003.
  22. ↑ Bettina Röhl: Terror sells. In: Die Zeit , No. 5/2005.
  23. ↑ Thomas Eller: Aesthetic Vampirism. In: artnet , January 31, 2005.
  24. ↑ The Sex Myths of Feminism ( Memento from December 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Cicero, April 2005
  25. ^ The Gender Mainstreaming Strategy ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Cicero, April 2005
  26. ↑ The Fall of Alice Schwarzer? , Cicero, April 2005
  27. ↑ What is behind the Alice Schwarzer brand . WirtschaftsWoche
  28. ↑ Bettina Röhl: Judith Butler - system-compliant gender queen. In: Wirtschaftswoche . September 4, 2012, Retrieved September 9, 2012 .
  29. ↑ Betina Röhl: The madness of the emasculation of our society. In: Wirtschaftswoche . July 3, 2013, accessed October 11, 2013 .
  30. ↑ rolandtichy.de
  31. ^ Profile and contributions by Bettina Röhl.
  32. ↑ Bettina Röhl - journalist and author on Tichy's insight . tichyseinblick.de; accessed on April 16, 2019
  33. ↑ Arno Widmann: Interview: Bettina Röhl, daughter of Ulrike Meinhof, about the 68ers and the RAF . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Röhl, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg