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Political activists --- Women political prisoners --- Ensslin, Gudrun --- Rote Armee Fraktion.

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This volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF past is a useful device to disentangle the complex relationship between terror and the arts. This bond has become a particularly pressing matter in an era of a new, so-called global terrorism when the culture industry is obviously fascinated with terror. Fourteen scholars of visual cultures and contemporary literature offer in-depth investigations into the artistic process of engaging with West Germany’s era of political violence in the 1970s. The assessments are framed by two essays from historians: one looks back at the previously ignored anti-Semitic context of 1970s terrorism, the other offers a thought-provoking epilogue on the extension of the so-called Stammheim syndrome to the debate on the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. The contributions on cultural memory argue that any future memory of German left-wing terrorism will need to acknowledge the inseparable bond between terror and the artistic response it produces.

Terrorism --- Left-wing extremists --- Nineteen seventies --- History --- History --- Rote Armee Fraktion --- Rote Armee Fraktion. --- History --- 1900 - 1999 --- Germany (West)

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Authors, German --- Political activists --- Terrorists --- Women political prisoners --- Ensslin, Gudrun --- Vesper, Bernward, --- Rote Armee Fraktion.

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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Criminology. Victimology --- Germany --- 343.9 --- Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Baader, Andreas, --- Meinhof, Ulrike Marie --- Meinhof, Ulrike Marie. --- 343.9 Criminologie --(algemeen) --- Quelle. --- Rote-Armee-Fraktion. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

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Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970's to the 1990's. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj Žižek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does the continuing cultural response to the German armed struggle tell us about the representation of violence, power, and gender today? Engaging critical theory, Charity Scribner addresses these questions and analyzes signal works that point beyond militancy and terrorism. This literature and art discloses the failures of the Far Left and registers the radical potential that RAF women actually forfeited. After the Red Army Faction maps out a cultural history of militancy and introduces "post militancy" as a new critical term. As Scribner demonstrates, the most compelling examples of post militant culture don't just repudiate militancy: these works investigate its horizons of possibility, particularly on the front of sexual politics. Objects of analysis include as-yet untranslated essays by Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas, as well as novels by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Judith Kuckart, Johann Kresnik's Tanztheaterstück Ulrike Meinhof, and the blockbuster exhibition Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke. Scribner focuses on German cinema, offering incisive interpretations of films by Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, and Fatih Akin, as well as the international box-office success The Baader-Meinhof Complex. These readings disclose dynamic junctures among several fields of inquiry: national and sexual identity, the disciplining of the militant body, and the relationship between mass media and the arts.

Women terrorists --- Terrorism --- Terrorism in mass media --- Women terrorists in mass media --- Terrorism in literature --- Women terrorists in literature --- Right and left (Political science) --- History --- Rote Armee Fraktion --- In literature --- In mass media