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  Holger Meins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holger Meins was a German film student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s.
He became a primary member of the RAF, but was arrested together with Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe in a shootout with the police in Frankfurt on June 1, 1972.
Meins died on hunger strike November 11, 1974.
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 Starbuck Holger Meins
Holger Meins was the first Red Army Faction member to die in custody in prison on hunger strike in 1974.
Meins the boy scout, artist, film maker and guerrilla is remembered by Gretchen Dutschke, Harun Farocki, Wolfgang Petersen, Peter Lilienthal, Michael Ballhaus, Margrit Schiller, “the family screw” Detective Superintendent Alfred Klaus, and others.
Holger Meins and I studied together at the Berlin Film Academy in the sixties.
www.starbuck-holger-meins.de /index_e.htm   (619 words)

  
 Capital & Class: Narratives of transformation and resistance: A cultural studies approach towards a critical ...
To start with, Meins was a political filmmaker who studied at the prestigious film academy in Berlin from 1966 to 1968, where he produced short feature films as well as agitprop films such as Über die Herstellung eines Molotow-Cocktails (About the Production of a Molotov Cocktail, Meins 1968).
Meins increasingly moved beyond filmmaking as a discursive social practice, and towards 'narratives of transformation' that were expected to have a more immediate effect than the earlier feature films.
His life story is portrayed in Starbuck Holger Meins: Ein Poträt als Zeitbild {Starbuck Holger Meins: A Portrait as an Image of Its Time), which was published as a book in 2001 and made into a film in the same year.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3780/is_200401/ai_n9366226/pg_2   (1350 words)

  
 Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)- - Starbuck - Holger Meins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Holger Meins, a leading member of the RAF, died in 1974 after a 66-day hunger strike in Stammheim Prison.
Conradt, who was at film school with Meins, offers an affectionate portrait of his charismatic friend.
Focusing on Meins' art-work, the film also mourns his fatal decision to go underground.
www.ica.org.uk /index.cfm?articleid=9103   (122 words)

  
 STARBUCK - Holger Meins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Starbuck, that was the code name of the German terrorist Holger Meins, the first Red Army Fraction member to die in custody in prison on hunger strike in 1974.
Starbuck is the helmsman of the Peacock in Melville's novel "Moby Dick".
In 1974 while in dentention awaiting trial, Holger Meins became the first member of the Red Army Fraction to die on hunger strike.
www.agdok.de /GermanDocumentaries/gD407.htm   (224 words)

  
 slovenia.ca - Holger Meins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Died in prison from hunger strike, 11 November 1974.
Find movie information including a 'Starbuck-Holger Meins' movie synopsis, cast and crew information, trailers, and more at AOL moviefone.
I starten av 1970-årene studerte Meins filmvitenskap og var aktiv på den tyske venstrefløy.
www.slovenia.ca /Holger-Meins/reference/fullview/wikipedia/419199   (146 words)

  
 Variant | issue 7 | Photographs from an undeclared war, Terry Delaney
In the close-up shots their faces are those of gargoyles; the once dapper Meins looks to have aged fifteen years in the five years since the film student photographs.
Meins looks to be at peace, he is clothed in white and his winding-sheet is lace trimmed.
There is a sense of order about this image of Meins in death; it is as if despite the chaos of his guerrilla years and the horror of his death, tranquillity of a sort has been restored.
www.variant.randomstate.org /7texts/Terry_Delaney.html   (3049 words)

  
 Baader-Meinhof: Holger Meins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Holger Meins joined the Baader-Meinhof Gang early in 1971.
A leftist Berlin film student, he was tired of being hassled by the police for his political views and wanted to take some direct action.
Meins was arrested on 1 June 1972 along with Jan-Carl Raspe and Andreas Baader in a bloody Frankfurt shootout.
www.baader-meinhof.com /who/terrorists/bmgang/meinsholger.html   (141 words)

  
 Film: Starbuck - Holger Meins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Reconstruction of the life of one of the founders of the Rote Armee Fraktion: Holger Meins.
Holger Meins (19511974), a member of the radical Baader Meinhof Gruppe, died after a 66day hunger strike in a German prison.
Conradt reaches the conclusion that Meins was one of those people who have to live radically.
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com /en/film/10418.html   (276 words)

  
 rafinfo | Geschichte | Kapitel 8: Sympatisanten   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tod Holger Meins war für viele ein großer Schock.
Für die Sympathisanten der RAF war klar, dass Holger Meins ermordet worden war.
Meine Herren, mein ganzer Instinkt sagt mir, dass wir hier nicht nachgeben dürfen.
raf.crashmail.de /hist/kap08.html   (395 words)

  
 Starbuck Holger Meins
The members of the first generation of the Red Army Faction (Baader, Meinhof, Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins) are arrested.
The scandal about Günter Guillaume, the advisor to Willy Brandt in his Chancellery who was uncovered as an East German spy, brought about Brandt’s downfall.
Holger Meins dies in prison following his hunger strike.
www.starbuck-holger-meins.de /ehintergrundraf.htm   (593 words)

  
 Post World Industires-Library-Bio-Baader
Baader, Holger Meins, and Jan-Carl Raspe pull up to the garage the next day (in a Porsche Targa) and realize that they’re not alone.
At this point Baader and Meins were laughing and waving their guns at the police.
Holger Meins surrenders, Baader stays put and runs out of ammo.
www.postworldindustries.com /library_text/library_bios/bio_baader.html   (1154 words)

  
 Holger Meins Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 TP: Starbuck gegen den Leviathan?
Holger Meins war 1974 der erste mutmaßliche RAF-Terrorist, der im Gefängnis an den Folgen eines Hungerstreiks starb.
Holger Meins' ehemaligen Kommilitonen kommt im Film die Rolle zu, dessen künstlerische Produktion mit seiner Persönlichkeit und insbesondere auch mit seiner politischen Entwicklung in Beziehung zu setzen.
Holger Meins zitiert gerne Mao, doch was dachte er eigentlich selbst?
www.heise.de /tp/deutsch/inhalt/kino/12660/1.html   (1292 words)

  
 Film-Archive: Starbuck - Holger Meins
Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
The decisive moments in Holger Meins' biography represent the potentialities of the lives of a whole post-war generation, whereby each document has its own history.
Gerd Conradt was born in 1941 in Thuringia.
www.german-films.de /archive/film_view.php?film_id=725   (325 words)

  
 The Baader Meinhof Gang
Andreas Baader, his hair dyed blonde, was with comrade Holger Meins in a garage used for putting bombs together when the cops swooped down on them.
Two of the accused were missing from the Stuttgart courtroom; Meinhof because she was being tried in Berlin and Meins because he was too weakened by his prolonged hunger strike to appear.
Yet this is the demise that Holger Meins, film student turned terrorist, either chose for himself or felt compelled to submit to.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/meinhof/11.html   (2441 words)

  
 Holger Meins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Holger Meins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Holger Meins joined the (A Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; di) Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s.
In prison the RAF-convicts launched several (A voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest) hunger strikes against the prison authorities.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/holger_meins.htm   (102 words)

  
 CV Gert Conradt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His colleagues during this time were Holger Meins, Harun Farocki and Wolfgang Petersen.
After lecturing for seven years at various colleges and universities in Berlin including the DFFB and the College of Education, he started a series on German poems (ca.
In March 2001, his book Starbuck - Holger Meins was published.
www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /capturingtruth/popup/part_cv_conradt.htm   (126 words)

  
 Holger Meins - TheBestLinks.com - Frankfurt, June 1, November 11, Red Army Faction, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Starbuck Holger Meins Film Review - Time Out Film
A documentary portrait of Holger Meins, the Red Army Faction member who died in Stammheim prison, following a hunger strike in 1974.
His painful death was the culmination of a journey from art school, via film-making, to increasingly militant actions against the Vietnam War, media monopolies and corporate control.
Meins' codename 'Starbuck', incidentally, was drawn from Moby-Dick.
www.timeout.com /film/75257.html   (293 words)

  
 Starbuck Holger Meins
Holger Meins starb als erstes RAF-Mitglied 1974 in Untersuchungshaft im Hungerstreik.
An den Pfadfinder, Künstler, Filmemacher und Guerillero Meins erinnern sich u.a.
Bereits 1982 drehte er zusammen mit Hartmut Jahn den Videofilm †ber Holger Meins, Manifestation Int.
www.starbuck-holger-meins.de   (893 words)

  
 Holger Meins - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Holger Meins - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Holger Meins contains research on
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Holger_Meins   (121 words)

  
 Harvard Film Archive: The RAF’s Germany: Terrorism, Politics, Protest
Focusing on the characters of Alfred Herrhausen, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank who was killed in a car bombing in 1989, and Wolfgang "Gaks" Grams, an activist implicated in the crime and killed in a police shoot-out, Veiel uses interviews, archival news footage, and home-movies to portray the times.
In this docudrama, Gerd Conradt, a former student friend of Holger Meins, takes an in-depth look at this helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
Meins was arrested as a member of the notorious group in 1972 and was the first prisoner from the Red Army Faction to die as the result of a hunger strike two years later.
www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/03marapr/raf.htm   (862 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Members of the group, seeking independence for Croatia from Yugoslavia, killed the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden in 1971 and last year the Swedish government denied a request for the release of the assassins responsible who are serving life sentences.
Another call claiming responsibility came from the Holger Meins Commando group, a West German terrorist cell affiliated with the Red Army Faction.
A October 19, 1986 Los Angeles Times article claims that a suspected member of the Abu Nidal terrorist group is being questioned in connection with the slaying.
www.tkb.org /Incident.jsp?incID=4502   (368 words)

  
 Bengt Nordin Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Six young West Germans from the Red Army Faction, Commando Holger Meins, had barricaded themselves inside the building with embassy officials as hostages.
Dan Hansén and Jens Nordqvist tell the entire dramatic story of the occupation of the Embassy as well as the violent protest movement in West Germany that served as the breeding grounds for terrorism.
The depiction in Commando Holger Meins of the terrorists involved gives us a picture of how leafthin the border could be between being a displeased citizen and becoming a terrorist.
www.nordinagency.se /DHJNkommando.html   (346 words)

  
 Terrorism: A Marxist Perspective
In June, in cities across the country five central RAF leaders were arrested — Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins, Baader, Ensslin and Meinhof.
On November 9, 1974, Holger Meins died from the effects of his hunger strike and the torture of forced feeding by the authorities.
Holger Meins' death had put the authorities on the back foot over the jail regime of the RAF prisoners.
www.dsp.org.au /dsp/Terrorism/Terrorism.htm   (10195 words)

  
 News Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following the retrospectives for Hartmut Bitomsky and Peter Nestler, the Viennale is continuing its series of „portraits of important German-speaking documentary filmmakers” this year with an homage to the filmmaker Jürgen Böttcher.
Screening in the short films section are ROADMOVIE by Harry Sachs, the German-French co-production VATERS LAND by Nurith Aviv and OSCAR LANGENFELD (1966) by Holger Meins.
The Viennale is the largest film festival in Austria and is recognised by the international producers association FIAPF as a Non-Competitive Festival.
www.german-films.de /kinonews/news_view.php?pressrelease_id=216   (281 words)

  
 Ljeto je pochelo...Uzhivajte maximalno...
He was captured, along with fellow gang members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins in a spectacular Frankfurt shootout on 1 June, 1972.
He was captured along with Baader and Holger Meins by police in a bloody Frankfurt shootout 1 July 1972.Raspe was tried with Ulrike Meinhof, Baader, and Gudrun Ensslin in a trial held on the grounds of Stuttgart's Stammheim prison.
After the longest trial in German history, Raspe was convicted along with Baader and Ensslin (Meinhof committed suicide in 1976) of murder and other counts, and sentenced to life.
simmerdown.blog.hr /arhiva-2005-05.2.html   (4231 words)

  
 filmportal.de
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966 and who today, at the age of 78, still acts as counsellor and muse to many people.
The path of Helen’s career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who later became a member of the Red Army Faction) as well as directors Wolfgang Becker, Detlev Buck and Christian Petzold.
All have fond memories of forgetting their troubles after having poured their hearts out over a cup of coffee in Helene’s office – for Helene was both friend and advisor to countless film students.
www.filmportal.de /df/02/Artikel,,,,,,,,EF7339D5C2181B53E03053D50B3755A3,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html   (292 words)

  
 Starbuck Holger Meins -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Man muss wissen, wer Holger Meins war und was sein Tod für die RAF bedeutet hat.
Wer glaubt, Petersen würde hier wirklich etwas zu Holger Meins sagen, der sei gewarnt.
Der Kurzfilm ist sensibles cinema direct in unglaublicher ästhetischer Strenge, die viel von der Erfahrung und den ästhetischen Standarts Holger Meins' erkennen lässt.
www.otik.de /shop/artikel-B0000ZFZGO.html   (439 words)

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