Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976) was a West German journalist and political activist who became a founding member of the Red Army Faction, a left-wing militant organization.

Gudrun Ensslin: Gudrun Ensslin (1940–1977) was a West German militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction. Ensslin was Meinhof’s fellow RAF founder and closest collaborator in its early years.
konkret: konkret is a German political magazine founded in 1957, known for its left-wing orientation and Meinhof’s journalism. Meinhof’s essays there attacked West German institutions before she joined the RAF.
Newspaper column: A newspaper column is a recurring article by a named writer expressing analysis, argument, or commentary. Meinhof’s columns made her a prominent voice in debates over West German politics.
Stammheim Prison: Stammheim Prison is a high-security prison in Stuttgart that held leading Red Army Faction members during their trial. Meinhof was imprisoned there from 1972 until her death in 1976.
Andreas Baader: Andreas Baader (1943–1977) was a West German militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction. Meinhof joined Baader and Ensslin in the RAF after helping Baader escape custody in 1970.
German student movement: The German student movement was a broad wave of protest in West Germany during the 1960s. Its protests and radicalization formed the political environment in which Meinhof made her turn to militancy.
Bambule: Bambule is a 1970 West German television film written by Ulrike Meinhof about girls in a West Berlin reform home. The film dramatized institutional abuse, a subject Meinhof had investigated as a journalist.
German Autumn: The German Autumn was the 1977 crisis in West Germany marked by RAF kidnappings, killings, and state responses. Meinhof’s death preceded the crisis and shaped the RAF’s later claims and public reception.
Klaus Rainer Röhl: Klaus Rainer Röhl (1928–2021) was a German journalist and publisher of the left-wing magazine konkret. Röhl edited konkret, where Meinhof worked, and was her husband from 1961 to 1968.
Kommune 1: Kommune 1 was a radical communal living group founded in West Berlin in 1967. Its members represented the countercultural protest milieu with which Meinhof engaged as a journalist.

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