Thorwald Proll

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Thorwald Proll (born July 22, 1941 in Kassel ) is a German poet , writer , editor and bookseller . As an activist of the extra-parliamentary opposition , he was involved in the department store arson on April 2, 1968 .

Time at APO

Thorwald Proll is the son of an architect from Kassel and a teacher, his younger sister is the co-founder of the Red Army fraction Astrid Proll . He studied German in Marburg . Proll was initially impressed by Georg Büchner and became a sympathizer of the Berlin Commune 1 . In 1967 he first met Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin in Peter Homann's apartment . He was involved in various actions of the extra-parliamentary opposition with the aim of “unsettling authorities and the state power”. He met Yaak Karsunke at a demonstration in Berlin . With Baader, Ensslin and Horst Söhnlein he started fires on April 2, 1968 in the M. Schneider and Kaufhof department stores in Frankfurt am Main to protest against the Vietnam War . All perpetrators were quickly caught. The four defendants were sentenced to three years imprisonment for arson , but were released after 14 months until a decision on a possible appeal was made by Horst Mahler . During this time he lived with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Matthias Beltz with the Frankfurt lawyer Inge Hornischer . Influenced by Herbert Marcuse's theory of fringe groups , he demonstrated with Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader against the conditions in youth homes in North Hesse (welfare), such as the Breitenau monastery . The revision was not allowed in November 1969. Proll, Baader and Ensslin then fled to France , Söhnlein began his imprisonment.

The fugitives found shelter in the Paris apartment of Régis Debray , who was visiting Che Guevara in Bolivia . After Thorwald Proll's sister, Astrid Proll , joined the trio, he turned away from the group in December 1969 and left Paris for England . On November 21, 1970, he presented himself to the Berlin- Moabit public prosecutor's office, accompanied by Klaus Eschen . He served his sentence in the Schwalmstadt correctional facility in Ziegenhain . In October 1971 he was released early from prison.

Writer and publicist

After his release from prison in 1972, Proll worked, among other things, as an unskilled worker, waiter, salesman and lecturer. He remained active on the left, but had no more contact with Baader and Ensslin. In 1972 Luchterhand Literaturverlag published the typescript Sicherheit und (M) ordnung with poems by Proll that he had written during his imprisonment.

Thorwald Proll has lived in Hamburg since 1977 and ran the Nautilus bookstore in the Ottensen district until 2013. For more than 40 years he has published books in publishers or hand-made small editions. The taz counts the volumes of poetry No Night for Nobody (1975) and Unique from the Old World (1979), excerpts of which were also published as audio books in 2001 , among his best productions.

In 2003 he published an interview volume with Daniel Dubbe We came from another star . Gottfried Oy wrote that although the volume gave insights into the “situationist-motivated world of ideas of parts of the student protest movement and their dealings with the society of the spectacle”, it also continued myths and provided the “stylization of one thing - albeit with a negative one Attributed - Superstars ”.

Interviews

  • At the table with Thorwald Proll , conversation in the hr2 series "Doppel-Kopf", first broadcast on October 24, 2016
  • We were brave , FAS No. 14/2018 of April 8, 2018, p. 45
  • Good question. Next question , bio-bibliographical interview by Jochen Knoblauch in: Radikalinski. Used and new poems. Trikont-Duisburg / Edition-Dialog Duisburg / Istanbul 2019. ISBN 978-3-945634-49-3

Works

  • Thorwald's aesthetic journey to the socialist islands in London Paris Rome Strasbourg Naples Nepal Milan Munich West Berlin Cologne , self-published, Cologne
  • with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and 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 SDS Berlin , Edition Voltaire, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1968 (series: Voltaire leaflet 27)
  • security and (m) order , Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1972 (series: Luchterhand typescript)
  • no night for no one. poems , Karin Kramer Verlag , Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-87956-076-5
  • On the trail of deeds. Poems and prollages , Edition Nautilus , Verlag Lutz Schulenburg, Hamburg 1977 (series: Flugschrift 22) ISBN 3-921523-24-9 .
  • Unique from the old world. Poems and prollages. Second part , self-published, Hamburg 1979
  • with Ursi Dietz and Sigurd Wendland: There are right things going on ... Pictures and poems , handcraft self-published in 1980
  • Kills Opi: Lyrische Konterbande , Verlag Auf Hoher See 1993, ISBN 3-930272-00-8
  • Thorwald Proll, Martina Blick (Ed.): The most beautiful youth is caught. Freedom for Irmgard Möller in poetry and prose , 1994, ISBN 3-930272-01-6
  • My 68th Notes, Letters, Interviews , 1999, ISBN 3-930272-03-2
  • with Daniel Dubbe: We came from another star , Edition Nautilus, Verlag Lutz Schulenburg 2003, ISBN 3-89401-420-2
  • A million to one. Lyrische Knockouts , Verlag auf high seas 2008, ISBN 978-3-930272-06-8
  • Meteor. New poems , publishing house on the high seas 2011, ISBN 978-3-930272-07-5
  • Out with the language. Lyrische Knockouts 2 , Verlag auf high seas 2016, ISBN 978-3-930272-09-9
  • (M) a 68th records, diary, letters, closing words in the department store fire process, photos, documents in the sense of the unsearchable , Book on Demand 2019, ISBN 978-3-748149-90-3
  • Radikalinski. Used and new poems. Trikont-Duisburg / Edition-Dialog Duisburg / Istanbul 2019. ISBN 978-3-945634-49-3
  • On (not) a day like any other. Used and new poems 2 . Trikont-Duisburg / Edition-Dialog Duisburg / Istanbul 2020. ISBN 978-3-945634-30-1

Sound carrier

  • Thorwald Proll, Uli Becker & Frank Witzel: Banana Republic ( LP ), Nautilus Phonographie 1978
  • Matchbox - Thorwald Proll speaks 22 poems in a new version from his poetry volumes "Unique from the old world" (1979), "Bringt Opi um" (1993) and "10 new poems" ( audio book ), Verlag auf high See 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sara Hakemi: Attack and Spectacle: Leaflets of the Commune I, statements by Ensslin / Baader and the early RAF. Posth Verlag, 2008, pp. 106-108.
  2. ^ The Frankfurt arsonists . In: DIE ZEIT 1968 No. 45.
  3. Stephanie Wurster: We came from another planet ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). fluter, January 4, 2004.
  4. New Poetry . In: Spiegel 28/1972, p. 102.
  5. This is the last Dadaist speaking . In: taz, July 21, 2001.
  6. Gottfried Oy: Andreas Baader Superstar . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, October 27, 2003.