Christof Wackernagel

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Christof Michael Wackernagel (born August 27, 1951 in Ulm ) is a German actor and writer . He is a former terrorist in the Red Army Faction (RAF) and was sentenced in 1980 to 15 years imprisonment for attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization , two-thirds of which he served. In 1983 he distanced himself from the RAF.

Origin and family

Wackernagel is the child of the artist couple Peter Wackernagel (1913–1958), artistic director at the Ulm Theater , and the actress Erika Wackernagel (1925–1995). He became a half-orphan at the age of seven when his father died. In 1960 the mother moved with Christof and his sister Sabine to Munich and in 1961 married the architect Heinrich Guter (1925–2015).

His sister Sabine Wackernagel (* 1947 in Stuttgart) and her daughter Katharina Wackernagel (* 1978 in Freiburg) are successful actresses. Katharina's brother Jonas Grosch is a film director; In 2007 he made a documentary about Wackernagel entitled The White with Black Bread .

Wackernagel left high school early and played his first leading role in the film Tattoo in 1967 . With this film he took part in the competition of the Berlinale 1967 . Other roles followed. The mirror identifies him in 1980 in retrospect as "young movie star."

Wackernagel came to Stuttgart in the early 1970s, continued to work as an actor and took on several auxiliary jobs in order to secure his livelihood. He also made his own video films.

RAF time

Together with two friends, he bought a printing company that worked with the Red Aid . Wackernagel became increasingly involved in helping inmates and against the conditions of detention criticized as " isolation torture ". On behalf of Klaus Croissant , he worked as a sound engineer in the Stammheim trial .

In early 1977 Wackernagel joined the RAF and went into hiding in the summer of 1977. In the course of the German autumn he was wanted as a terrorist. On November 10, 1977, the Dutch police and German investigators tried to arrest Wackernagel and his friend Gert Schneider in Amsterdam . A Dutch police officer opened fire, Wackernagel fired back and Schneider set off a hand grenade. Both remained shot and were arrested. Three of the Dutch police officers involved were gunshot wounds.

Sentencing and imprisonment

After his transfer, Wackernagel was sentenced to 15 years in prison on October 15, 1980 at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court for attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization (RAF). The former RAF members Volker Speitel and Hans-Joachim Dellwo had put Wackernagel under considerable strain in the process. Wackernagel began writing in prison and published his first novel in 1984 and a volume of poetry in 1986. In 1983 he distanced himself from the RAF.

From 1984 onwards, Claus Peymann , then director at the Bochumer Schauspielhaus , a prominent advocate of Wackernagel for an early dismissal, made political headlines, as Bernhard Worms , the CDU parliamentary leader in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament , spoke out against it. Herman van Hoogen, the policeman who arrested him, also called for his early release. In 1986 Wackernagel came into the open prison and was able to work as an assistant director and dramaturge at the Bochumer Schauspielhaus from August. After serving two-thirds of the sentence (beginning in 1977), Wackernagel was released from prison in 1987, subject to conditions.

After imprisonment

First he was booked for roles again. Starting in 1991, the initial success ebbed; in Wackernagel's opinion, “terrorist voyeurism” was over. Since the mid-1990s, Wackernagel appeared again in various television films and series as well as in feature films. He also writes books and dramas, paints, produces radio plays and is also politically active again. In 1992 Wackernagel was awarded the " Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize for upright literature".

Wackernagel lived in Bamako , the capital of Mali, for around ten years . In 2007, directed by his nephew Jonas Grosch, the documentary The White with Black Bread was released about his life in Mali with the musician Madou Coulibaly and his housekeeper Assa, and his attempt to found a wholemeal bakery together with the Malians. In conversations with Wackernagel, his former life in Germany is also reflected on. He has since returned to Germany with his son Peter and lives in Ottobrunn near Munich. His son Peter's mother, Batoma Daou, stayed in Mali.

Works

Filmography

Fonts

Radio plays

literature

  • Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy e. V. (Ed.): Petition in favor of Mr. Gert Schneider and in favor of Mr. Christof Wackernagel ; 1986 Sensbachtal, Committee for Fundamental Rights and Democracy ISBN 3-88906-020-X
  • Flocke, Sarah-Janine: Friends from Bochum [1], Elli-Maria Altegoer, Carmen Gelse, Frank Goosen, Dietrich Grönemeyer, Frank Hilbig, Goiko Javanovic, Rudolf Klein, Dieter Maiweg, Johann Mauer, Sascha Otto, Volker Sendt, Werner Streletz, Christof Wackernagel and Dariusz Wosz in portraits ; 2002 Bochum, Biblioviel-Verlag, ISBN 3-928781-81-2

Web links

Commons : Christof Wackernagel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Christof Wackernagel  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.berliner-zeitung.de
  2. ↑ Matthias Schmid: Ex-RAF terrorist has the Will audience behind him. In: welt.de , in the internet archive. January 24, 2013, archived from the original on December 19, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Vogel: Author Christof Wackernagel: I could relapse there. In: fr-online.de . October 8, 2011, accessed December 18, 2014 .
  4. ↑ From Engelchens world into the underground. SPIEGEL editor Heinz Höfl on the terrorist Christof Wackernagel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1977, pp. 60-62 ( Online - Oct. 31, 1977 ).
  5. ↑ Video: The Vietnam War is not yet over in Germany , on Youtube
  6. ↑ a b Tobias Wuschnik: Baader-Meinhof's children: The second generation of the RAF. Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, p. 232.
  7. ^ Image of the wanted poster on jugendopposition.de ( Federal Agency for Civic Education / Robert Havemann Society eV), viewed on March 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ Hard case . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1980, pp. 88-89 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Tobias Wuschnik: Baader-Meinhofs children: The second generation of the RAF. Springer-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 139f.
  10. ↑ Fabian Grieger: A special relationship: The friendship after the shot . In: taz . July 12, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on July 13, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Prisma.de: Star guide Christof Wackernagel, with interview, 2002 , accessed on February 2, 2012.
  12. ^ Article by Wackernagel on the war in Mali
  13. ↑ The white man with the black bread . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 2008 ( online ).
  14. ^ Christof Wackernagel, actor. The bad sides of the beautiful continent. SWR1 , April 29, 2013, accessed on August 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Document from the German embassy in Bamako on the mother's acknowledgment of paternity from February 1, 2013: "Marriage not properly concluded under Malian law. Marriage therefore void"
  16. ↑ Books by Christof Wackernagel
personal data
SURNAME Wackernagel, Christof
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wackernagel, Christof Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and author; RAF terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm