Werner Sauber

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Werner Karl Sauber, also Philip Werner Sauber (born April 4, 1947 in Zurich ; † May 9, 1975 in Cologne ) was a Swiss filmmaker . He was a member of the terrorist organization " Movement June 2nd ".

Life

Werner Sauber's parents ran a company that produced traffic signs and were wealthy. His older brother Peter Sauber became a racing driver and owner of a Formula 1 racing team.

Sauber began training as a photographer and went to West Berlin in the late summer of 1967 to attend the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . In 1968 the film The Lonely Wanderer was made . For a time, Sauber lived with Ulrike Edschmid and her child in a shared apartment that was repeatedly searched by the police. Both were detained on suspicion of demonstration crimes, and Sauber went into hiding after his release. He acted in the context of the " June 2nd Movement " and was involved in several bank robberies. At the beginning of 1974 he went to Cologne to organize the resistance in the factories and worked under a false name at Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz at the stamping machine . On May 9, 1975, at a police checkpoint in Cologne-Humboldt / Gremberg, he opened fire on police officer Walter Pauli , who died on the spot. Werner Sauber was seriously injured in the ensuing exchange of fire and died on the way to the hospital. His friend Karl Heinz Roth was also seriously injured and arrested together with Roland Otto .

Movie

  • The lonely wanderer , Federal Republic of Germany 1967, 31 minutes, 16 mm, black and white

literature

Fiction

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death certificate No. 1140 from May 20, 1975, registry office Cologne East. LAV NRW R civil status register, accessed on May 4, 2018 .
  2. Verena Lueken: Someone takes his suitcase and leaves . Review, in: FAZ , April 6, 2013, p. 33
  3. ^ Cologne police: Walter Pauli: Walter-Pauli-Ring 2-4 - warning and reminder . ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on February 27, 2015.
    Daniel Ryser: Werner Sauber - Sauber, Tod und Teufel . Article from Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ) 09/2006 of March 2, 2006.
  4. The lonely wanderer , Viennale 2009
  5. The lonely wanderer , DFFB archive
  6. Literature: A gang for two , Der Spiegel 12/2013
  7. Jürgen Berger: A Companion of the Berlin Years , Die Tageszeitung , March 30, 2013