Subscription

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Movie
Original title Subscription
The subscription.jpg
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 1967
length 12 minutes
Rod
Director Ali Limonadi
occupation

Lienhard Brunner , Gudrun Ensslin

The subscription is a short film by Ali Limonadi from 1967 . Lienhard Brunner and Gudrun Ensslin are involved in the 12-minute film . It is the only film in which Gudrun Ensslin worked as an actress (according to the film poster under the name "Rosa Enslin"). For a long time the film was considered lost. Excerpts were published for the first time in the documentary "I am not who I am ..." by Stefan and Matthias Brunner (1999).

Director: Ali Limonadi (2015)

action

In Das Subscription , Lienhard Brunner plays a young man who is tormented daily by a newspaper subscription to the world with new news about current politics . Gudrun appears in his apartment as an auspicious lover. He photographs her as a nude model in various poses and dreams of her as a blessing. West Berlin , in the late 1960s, is the focus of unrest and student demonstrations. During this time, the short film addresses the power and abuse of power by the media.

reception

Excerpts from "The Subscription" were used in the following films and television documentaries:

  • Stefan Brunner and Matthias Brunner: I am not who I am ... (1999)
  • Klaus Stern : Andreas Baader - The Public Enemy (2002)
  • Ben Lewis : Baader Meinhof: In love with terror (2002)
  • ZDF-History : RAF - The Deadly Illusion (2007)
  • Matthias Brunner: Thinking Soup - Reports from the Underground (2008)
  • Jean-Gabriel Périot: A German Youth (2015)

literature

  • Caroline Harmsen, Ulrike Seyer, Johannes Ullmaier (eds.): Gudrun Ensslin / Bernward Vesper. "Emergency laws from your hand". Letters 1968/1969. With a comment by Felix Ensslin . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12586-1 , pp. 58, 61, 82, 83, 110, 111.
  • Butz Peters : Deadly mistake. The history of the RAF. Argon, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-87024-673-1 , p. 75.
  • Martin Knobbe, Stefan Schmitz: 1977 Year of Terror - How the RAF changed Germany. Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 2007.
  • Astrid Proll : Hans and Grete - Pictures of the RAF 1967–1977. Structure, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02597-1 , p. 42 f.
  • Ingeborg Gleichauf : Poetry and Violence. The life of Gudrun Ensslin. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-6089-4918-6 , p. 135.

Web links

Commons : The subscription  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Baader / Meinhof - A side path. In: Der Spiegel . June 12, 1972, Retrieved October 5, 2015 .