Horst Söhnlein

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Horst Söhnlein (born October 13, 1943 ) was active in the West German extra-parliamentary opposition and involved in the department store arson on April 2, 1968 .

Life

In 1967 he founded the “action theater” in Munich with his wife Ursula Strätz , which was later continued as an antiteater by Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

With Andreas Baader , Thorwald Proll and Gudrun Ensslin , Söhnlein started fires on April 2, 1968 in the M. Schneider and Kaufhof department stores in Frankfurt am Main to protest against the " genocide in Vietnam ". The perpetrators were quickly caught.

When Söhnlein returned from Frankfurt, he struck down the furniture, doors and inventory of the action theater because he saw Fassbinder as a rival and wanted to prevent him from taking over the theater. It was temporarily closed for renovation.

In the subsequent trial the four defendants were sentenced to three years in prison for arson . After 14 months in prison, they were released pending a decision on a possible appeal . The appeal was not allowed in November 1969, whereupon Söhnlein's co-defendants fled to France . Söhnlein went into custody.

Publications

  • Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll, Horst Söhnlein: We do not defend ourselves against such a judiciary. Final word in the department store fire process. With an afterword by Bernward Vesper and a declaration by the SDS Berlin. Edition Voltaire, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1968. (Series: Voltaire leaflet 27)
  • Statement by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Söhnlein and Thorwald Proll who were accused in the department store fire trial. in: Charlie Kaputt No. 3, December 1968, Berlin

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ SWR2 contemporaries: Rudolf Waldemar Brem, actor | Contemporaries | SWR2. In: swr.online. Retrieved June 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ The Frankfurt arsonists . DIE ZEIT 1968 No. 45
personal data
SURNAME Little son, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German APO activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1943