Gabriele Rollnik

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Gabriele Rollnik (* 1950 in Dortmund ) is a German former terrorist. She was a member of the June 2 Movement , was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1981 and released in 1993.

Life

Gabriele Rollnik went to West Berlin in 1970 to study sociology . Political activities and the influence of the women's movement led her to join the group International Marxists . Shortly before graduation, she broke off her studies in order to take a job as a fitter at Telefunken and to agitate her colleagues.

Movement June 2nd

While she was still working at Telefunken, she was asked whether she could make her apartment available to Till Meyer , the co-founder of the June 2nd Movement, who had just broken out of custody. She was ready for this and thus came into closer contact with the terrorist organization. In 1974 she went underground herself and worked on the planning and implementation of the Peter Lorenz kidnapping of 1975, through which five prisoners were released by the RAF and the June 2nd Movement. Rollnik was arrested in Berlin in autumn 1975.

In July 1976, together with Monika Berberich , Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett, she managed to escape from the prison for women in Berlin .

In order to create the economic basis for a new structure and strategy, it was decided to carry out an action to raise funds. In order to evade the search pressure in the Federal Republic of Germany, Vienna was chosen. On November 9, 1977, after several months of planning , the Austrian entrepreneur Walter Palmers was kidnapped in Vienna. After paying 31 million shillings, he was released by his kidnappers after 100 hours of imprisonment. As a result, Thomas Gratt and Othmar Keplinger in Chiasso on the Swiss border, as well as Reinhard Pitsch , who did not try to flee abroad and stayed in Vienna, were arrested and convicted.

With the financial basis now created, new goals were discussed in the June 2nd Movement, under the impression of the German autumn of 1977. Rollnik took the line in the group to move closer to the RAF, possibly to unite. Two weeks after Till Meyer was freed from the Berlin-Moabit prison in 1978, Rollnik was arrested together with Meyer, Gudrun Stürmer and Angelika Goder in the Bulgarian port city of Burgas . In 1981 she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

After imprisonment

Rollnik has lived and worked in Hamburg since she was released from prison in 1993. She is Karl-Heinz Dellwo's partner and works as a child and youth therapist. In 2004 a book was published about her experiences in the terrorist movement. In the documentary No Island (directed by Michael Gartner and Alexander Binder ), which was shown for the first time at the Viennale in October 2006 , Rollnik speaks about the time around the Palmers kidnapping in Vienna in 1977.

Fonts

  • with Daniel Dubbe : Don't be afraid of anyone. About the Seventies, the June 2nd Movement and the RAF . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89401-436-9 .
  • After the armed struggle. In: Angelika Holderer (Ed.): After the armed struggle. Former members of the RAF and Movement June 2nd talk to therapists about their past. Psychosozial-Verlag , Giessen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89806-588-7 , pp. 143-152.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gudrun Schwibbe: Tales of Being Different: Linksterrorismus und Alterität , Münster, 2013, p. 285
personal data
SURNAME Rollnik, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German terrorist movement June 2nd
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund