Karl-Heinz Dellwo

Karl-Heinz Dellwo (2007)

Karl-Heinz Dellwo (born April 11, 1952 in Opladen ) is a former German terrorist of the Red Army Faction (RAF). He was involved in the hostage-taking and murders at the German embassy in Stockholm in 1975 and was sentenced to twice life imprisonment. Since his release in 1995 he has worked as a documentary filmmaker , publisher and innkeeper .

Life

As a young man, Karl-Heinz Dellwo initially worked in various professions (including as a commercial apprentice ( industrial clerk ), seaman , temporary driver and postman ) before he took part in the squatting in Hamburg's Ekhofstrasse in May 1973 . He was imprisoned for a year because of the squatting. In the squatter scene he got to know Susanne Albrecht , who, like him, was involved in a committee against torture and with whom he was together until he went into hiding in 1975.

Karl-Heinz Dellwo's older brother, Hans-Joachim Dellwo , became a member of the RAF in 1975, but renounced it after his arrest in 1977.

Karl-Heinz Dellwo lives with his partner Gabriele Rollnik in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel .

Membership in the RAF

Dellwo joined the RAF and took part in the hostage-taking at the German embassy in Stockholm , in which two embassy staff were murdered. Two members of the RAF command were seriously injured in the accidental detonation of an explosive device they had prepared , from which they later died.

Dellwo was arrested with the other three surviving perpetrators ( Hanna Krabbe , Bernd Rössner and Lutz Taufer ) and on July 20, 1977 a. a. Sentenced to twice life imprisonment for two collective murders in unity with hostage-taking .

An alleged written statement by Dellwo, which was found during the arrest of RAF member Stefan Wisniewski in Paris and in which Dellwo criticized the hijacking of the “Landshut” plane , was misused by the Lower Saxony constitutional protection agency as bogus evidence in the affair of the so-called Celler Loch .

Dealing with the RAF past

Dellwo was released on parole in the spring of 1995 and has repeatedly made public statements about his membership in the RAF.

1993 appeared in the magazine arranca! an excerpt from the 77-page text Mitten im Nebel , which Dellwo had written in 1990 and which represents an early fundamental reflection from the inner circle of the RAF. Another excerpt from this text appeared in the journal Die Beute in 1997 in No. 15/16.

Dellwo was a panelist in Zurich in 1997 on the occasion of the congress on the armed struggle in Europe . For years he has publicly taken the position that the death of the prisoners in Stammheim in 1977 was a "suicide under state observation".

In 2004 the Swedish director David Aronowitsch shot the documentary Stockholm 75 , in the center of which he put Dellwo.

In 2007, a book was published by the psychoanalyst Angelika Holderberg , in which conversations between the psychoanalyst and several former German terrorists over several years are reproduced. Karl-Heinz Dellwo is also among the authors.

Movie

Karl-Heinz Dellwo has been working as a director and documentary filmmaker with his company bellaStoria Film since 2004 . In 2006 his first two documentaries appeared, Beside the Track and You Can .

In addition to the track it comes to children from a youth center in the Wendland in their work-camp -Stay in the former concentration camp Theresienstadt . The Frankfurt criminologist Peter-Alexis Albrecht wrote: "There is no more convincing and empathetic social alternative to the traditional access of state control to be presented than in this documentary."

The documentary you can , produced for Amnesty International , spans - starting with reflections on the torture in Abu Ghraib - to interviews about the possibility of tackling human rights violations. Former UN Special Rapporteur Jean Ziegler wrote: “Your film is very excellent. It creates awareness, provides precise information and mobilizes. Above all: He gives hope. "

In the 2013 feature film Krasser Move by Hamburg-based no-budget filmmaker Torsten Stegmann , Dellwo plays a supporting role as captain.

Author and publisher

In 2007 his book Das Projektil sind wir was published , in which he examines and analyzes the 1968 movement and its culmination in the RAF. The book received positive reviews and a. in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the taz . Gottfried Oy emphasized: "In contrast to professional contemporary witnesses, Dellwo succeeds in capturing rational reasons such as the emotional motivation of resistance."

In 2009 Dellwo founded Laika-Verlag , of which he is the managing director. There he published the library of the resistance .

Restaurateur

Together with writer Heinz Strunk , he ran the "Cantina Popular" restaurant in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel between 2017 and 2018.

Television interviews

• Conversation with prisoners from the RAF , video by Oliver Tolmein and Roger Willemsen , FRG 1992
• In dialogue - Michael Krons in conversation with Karl-Heinz Dellwo Phoenix May 8, 2016

Fonts

• We are the projectile. The awakening of a generation, the RAF and the criticism of weapons. Conversations with Tina Petersen and Christoph Twickel. Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89401-556-5 .
• Discorso sulle origini della lotta armata. In: Primo Moroni : Le Parole e la lotta armata. Shake Edizioni, Milano 2009, ISBN 978-88-88865-74-4 .
• To the RAF - interview and reflection. In: The Action . Issue 216, May 2009.
• with Uwe Soukup and Karl Heinz Roth : June 2, 1967. (Library of Resistance). Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-942281-70-6 .
• with Achim Szepanski and J. Paul Weiler: RIOT - What was going on in Hamburg ?: Theory and practice of collective action. , Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-944233-91-8 .

literature

• Angelika Holderberg (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 .
• From the rationality of law to the irrationality of security - documentation of a panel discussion. (With contributions by Michael Voß , Peter-Alexis Albrecht , Ulrich Renz , Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz and Karl-Heinz Dellwo). In: Critical quarterly for legislation and jurisprudence. No. 2/2010.

Web links

• Lecture at the Leo cinema Innsbruck, January 26, 2009
• Dossier at Der Spiegel
• Jochen Werner: The fight continues. The ex-terrorist Karl-Heinz Dellwo , Interview with Karl-Heinz Dellwo on Kulturzeit , May 17, 2010 (archive link)
• Literally - Karl-Heinz Dellwo on Radio Orange 94.0 , August 15, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Tolmein: What is Lutz Taufer doing? In: concrete . Issue 02, 2005.
2. ^ Tobias Becker, Claudia Voigt: Opportunities district. In: Der Spiegel 25/2017 of June 17, 2017, pp. 18–22, here p. 19.
3. ↑ The head starts to roar on spiegel.de
4. ↑ Lamento on zeit.de
5. ^ Rolf Cantzen : "Aktion Feuerzauber" - Das Celler Loch , SWR2 Wissen , from the series Politkrimis from October 12, 2007
6. ↑ Michael Sontheimer: RAF heritage: "We had to lose". In: one day . October 11, 2007. (Interview)
7. ↑ Karl-Heinz Dellwo: … in the middle of the fog. In: arranca! No. 3, December 1993, accessed August 18, 2011.
8. ↑ Frank Bachner, Axel Vornbäum: The night of Stammheim. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 14, 2007.
9. ↑ Gaston Cherry: Beside the track. In: Taz , February 17, 2007.
10. ^ Dietrich Kuhlbrodt : Next to the track. In: concrete , February 2007, on filmzentrale.com
11. ↑ Bellastoria Film: Beside the Track.
12. ↑ Bellastoria Film: you can.
13. ↑ Crazy move.
14. ^ Edition Nautilus: Press comments on "We are the projectile" ( Memento from June 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Imprint of the Laika publishing house
16. ↑ Arno Widmann: We have to revolt. Original text no longer online therefore via Wayback-machine (PDF; 816 kB) In: Berliner Zeitung . Number 46 23/24 February 2013, an interview with Karl-Heinz Dellwo about the library of the resistance
17. ↑ Michael Allmaier : Cantina Popular: It's not a people's kitchen , Die Zeit , May 8, 2017
18. ↑ Stevan Paul : Local date: Cantina Popular , Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 9, 2017
19. ↑ JSTOR 43203034