Vesper, Ensslin, Baader: Urszenen des deutschen Terrorismus - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3596156912 ISBN 13: 9783596156917

Synopsis

Vesper, Ensslin, Baader" is a biographical narrative that can draw on unknown personal documents of the actors. Gerd Koenen not only provides a key to the "red decade" of the 68 revolt, but to the history of post-war Germany as a whole. Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader were something like the original couple of German terrorism, the Frankfurt department store arson of 1968 the Urakt. Both left their significant others and their children to embark on a path that would lead to the founding of the RAF two years later. Under what inner conflicts this happened, can only be revealed from personal testimonies and reports; the figures frozen into icons get a human face. Bernward Vesper, son of Nazi poet Will Vesper, longtime fiancé Gudrun Ensslins and father of her child, was the unfortunate third in this story. In the same chaotic period in 1969/70, when Baader/Ensslin went underground and the first armed groups formed, Vesper went on his own trip. With the help of drugs, erotic experiences, theoretical readings and ruthless self-analysis, he wanted to smash his "fascist character tank" and train himself to become a conscious revolutionary. His autobiographical report "The Journey" has been considered - since he appeared posthumously in the "German Autumn" in 1977 - as the most literarily significant and authentic document of these time-typical radicalisation processes. "Vesper, Ensslin, Baader" is an extreme love story and at the same time an exemplary story that has long become a myth that leads to the heart of the German family novel.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3596156912
• ISBN 13: 9783596156917
• Binding: Paperback