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  Biographie: Ulrike Meinhof, 1934-1976
Ulrike Meinhof schreibt in "konkret" ihre erste Kolumne, "Der Friede macht Geschichte".
Dezember: Ulrike Meinhof heiratet den Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "konkret", Klaus Rainer Röhl (geb.
Juni: Meinhof flüchtet zusammen mit Ensslin, Baader, Horst Mahler und weiteren Sympathisanten der Gruppe nach Jordanien zu den palästinensischen Guerillas, um dort eine Ausbildung für den "bewaffneten Kampf" zu absolvieren.
www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/MeinhofUlrike/index.html   (740 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Meinhof brain study yields clues
German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof had a brain operation in the 1960s that may have contributed to her becoming one of Europe's most feared urban guerrillas, according to a specialist.
Meinhof, who committed suicide in 1976, had been sentenced in 1974 to eight years in prison after a ruling that she was fully mentally competent.
One of Meinhof's two daughters, Bettina Roehl, has filed a lawsuit on charges of disturbing the peace of the dead for secretly removing Meinhof's brain after her death.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2455647.stm   (354 words)

  
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Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2001b) 'Discourse and Identity' in Atti del 2o congresso di studi dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata edited by Camilla Bettoni et al.
Meinhof, Ulrike H., Heidi Armbruster and Craig Rollo (2002) Identity Discourses on Est-West Borders in Europe: An Introduction'.
Meinhof, Ulrike H. and Dariusz Galasinski (2002) 'Reconfiguring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
www.well.ac.uk /cgol/Borders/bibliography.asp   (769 words)

  
  EU Border Identities - Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Meinhof, Ulrike H. (2001b) ‘Discourse and Identity’ in Atti del 2o congresso di studi dell’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata edited by Camilla Bettoni et al.
Meinhof, Ulrike H. and Dariusz Galasinski (2000a) 'Photography, memory, and the construction of identities on the former East-West German border', Discourse Studies, 2(3): 323-53.
Meinhof, Ulrike H. and Dariusz Galasinski (2002) ‘Reconfiguring East-West identities: cross-generational discourses in German and Polish border communities’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
www.euborder.soton.ac.uk /publicat01.html   (845 words)

  
 Andreas Baader Summary
Meinhof was born in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, on October 7, 1934.
Baader, Meinhof, and the others were accused of murder, robbery, and the founding of a "criminal association." The Baader-Meinhof trial in a high security courthouse at Stuttgart-Stammheim began on May 21, 1975 and lasted until April 28, 1977, when all were sentenced to lifelong imprisonment.
Baader, Meinhof and other gang members were expelled from a Fedayeen training camp in Jordan in 1970.
www.bookrags.com /Andreas_Baader   (1394 words)

  
 Ulrike Meinhof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ulrike Marie Meinhof (October 7, 1934 – May 9, 1976) was a German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist.
Born in Oldenburg, she was one of the founders of the Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion), which is also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group.
Meinhof wrote many of the tracts and manifestos that the group produced, including the concept of the urban guerrilla, decrying what she called the exploitation of the common man and the imperialism of the capitalist system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulrike_Meinhof   (413 words)

  
 Ulrike Meinhof   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ulrike Meinhof (October 7 1934 - May 9 1976) was a German radical leftist terrorist who started out as a journalist.
Meinhof wrote many the tracts and manifestos that the group decrying what she called the exploitation of common man and the imperialism of the capitalist system.
Captured in 1972 in Langenhagen she was sentenced to 8 years for some of her crimes and hanged in her cell in 1976 while on for four murders fifty-four attempted murders and forming a criminal association; some conspiracy theories allege that she was actually killed the state and this was covered up.
www.freeglossary.com /Ulrike_Meinhof   (416 words)

  
 fm einheit
Before Ulrike Meinhof began to terrorise the country, she was a popular talkshow guest.
And of course long-forgotten TV appearances by Ulrike Meinhof, interviews with terrorists like Baader, Ensslin, Mahler and extracts from the media offensive during the hot phase of German terrorist campaign.
Recordings of shootings during the arrests, the public disgust of politians, telephone conversations with the terrorists during the shooting of embassy staff or the final words by Ulrike Meinhof from her cell, video tapes of the kidnapped Martin Schleyer, the storming of the plane in Mogadishu and so on and so forth.
www.invisiblerecords.com /bands/einheit/deutsche.asp   (1251 words)

  
 CNN.com - German terrorist's brain buried - Dec. 21, 2002
The brain of Ulrike Meinhof, leader of the notorious German Baader-Meinhof terror gang of the 1970s, has been buried 26 years after her death.
Meinhof hanged herself in prison in 1976 and while her body was buried, her brain was removed for research.
Meinhof was considered the intellectual head of the Red Army Faction, a left-wing revolutionary group which waged a campaign of killings, bombings and kidnappings against the establishment in the 1970s and into the 1980s after her death.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/12/21/germany.brain   (326 words)

  
 The Turbulent Life of Ulrike Meinhof: Conclusion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ulrike Meinhof is much more than a terrorist for the Germans; she is a myth that cannot be forgotten.
Ulrike Meinhof is seen as the intellectual force of the RAF and the woman that shaped the ideology by utilizing her journalistic experience to present the RAF to society.
Ulrike Meinhof became a terrorist because she saw few alternatives for pursuing political justice and had little trust in the German government or other institutions.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~schen20m/classweb/ulrikemeinhof/Conclusion.htm   (491 words)

  
 BAMBULE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ulrike Marie Meinhof's TV script about the Eichenhof welfare home in West Berlin was developed in 1969.
At that time, however, Ulrike Meinhof was already suspected of being involved in helping Andreas Baader escape from prison.
In numerous discussions with the film's director, Ulrike Meinhof came back to the same demand time and time again : the film should "get closer to the truth, not closer to reality".
www.centrepompidou.fr /sitesweb/grimonprez/eng_deutsch/bambule.html   (236 words)

  
 Terrorist's brain to be returned - smh.com.au
Hamburg: German prosecutors say the brain of the urban terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, which had been removed after her suicide in 1976, will be returned to her family.
Meinhof's daughter, Bettina Roehl, filed a lawsuit in Stuttgart on Monday demanding the return of her mother's brain, so that it could be given a proper burial.
Meinhof, a one-time journalist, became a scourge to German authorities after she and Andreas Baader founded the radical Baader-Meinhof Gang, which later changed its name to Red Army Faction.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/14/1037080849468.html   (243 words)

  
 Baader-Meinhof: Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof's parents both died early, leaving Ulrike and her sister Weinke in the care of Renate Riemack, a friend of their mother's.
Meinhof drifted away from Röhl, and towards the radical fringe of the student movement.
She hung herself in her cell on 9 May, 1976 (though some have questioned this official explanation and instead suspect that she was murdered by the state).
www.baader-meinhof.com /who/terrorists/bmgang/meinhofulrike.html   (170 words)

  
 Ulrike Meinhof (Biografie)
Ulrike Meinhof bezweifelte immer stärker, ob sie mit ihrer journalistischen Arbeit etwas verändern konnte.
Ulrike Meinhof, die sich dabei von einem Bankangestellten mit 8 000 Mark abspeisen ließ und in der Aufregung 100 000 Mark übersah, formulierte in mehreren Schriften die politischen Ziele der "RAF".
Ulrike Meinhof wurde monatelang allein in einem toten Trakt einer Kölner Justizvollzugsanstalt eingesperrt.
www.dieterwunderlich.de /Meinhof.htm   (969 words)

  
 Ulrike Meinhof
Schließlich bezweifelte Ulrike Meinhof, ob sie mit ihrer journalistischen Arbeit etwas verändern konnte.
Ulrike Meinhof, die sich dabei von einem Bankangestellten mit 8.000 Mark abspeisen ließ und in der Aufregung 100.000 Mark übersah, formulierte in mehreren Schriften die politischen Ziele der "RAF".
Ulrike Meinhof: Dokumente einer Rebellion - 10 Jahre "konkret"-Kolumnen.
www.powercat.de /portraits/meinhof.html   (811 words)

  
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One of the most famous terrorists of the 1970s in Germany was Ulrike Meinhof (above, right) of the The Baader-Meinhof Gang or the RAF (Red Army Faciton), a radical Marxist group who performed terrorist acts such as bombing and bank robbery in a protest against capitalist imperialism.
There have been several psychological studies done on Meinhof to try to understand why she became such a "violent woman," she being the first of a "new militant breed" (Miller) and one of the supposed leaders of the most feared terrorist group in post-war Germany.
On this website, I will focus on Ulrike Meinhof and her role as the first female terrorist in Germany, as well as the image of women as terrorists in the 1970s and today.
www.angelfire.com /retro2/womenandterrorism   (354 words)

  
 CNN.com - Germany: Dead terrorist's brain row - Nov. 10, 2002
Prosecutors in Germany are investigating a claim that the brain of urban guerrilla Ulrike Meinhof was removed after her death and examined to find a reason for her violent behaviour.
Meinhof was a leader of the extreme-left Baader-Meinhof Gang which waged a campaign of killings, bombings and kidnappings against the establishment in the 1970s.
Bettina Roehl, Meinhof's daughter, discovered the brain was being kept in a cardboard box in Magdeburg university in eastern Germany.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/09/germany.meinhof   (353 words)

  
 The Baader Meinhof Gang
Ulrike Meinhof was born in 1934, the year after Hitler came to power.
She was the second child and second daughter of Werner Meinhof, an assistant to the director of a museum, and his homemaker wife, Ingeborg.
She was a big hit with the Meinhof kids and soon became a kind of second mother to them.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/meinhof/9.html   (2000 words)

  
 My Mother, the Terrorist | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 14.03.2006
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Ulrike Meinhof was arrested in 1972 and killed herself in 1976
Meinhof was offered "a new identity" in East Germany, but she turned the offer down.
The brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which has sat in a container with formaldehyde for 26 years following scientific research, will be buried along with her body in a Berlin cemetery.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1933629,00.html   (894 words)

  
 Goethe-Institut Book of the month - Book of the month 2004
Nowadays the name "Ulrike Meinhof" is exclusively and directly connected to the Rote Armee Fraktion-movement (RAF) and is equally used for left and right political slogans.
It is often forgotten that Ulrike Meinhof chose to partake in terrorist activities only for a few years of her life and that behind the name "Ulrike Meinhof" lies a very complex life and personality.
Her life in the underground is not only a crucial turning point in Ulrike's life but Prinz, too, makes it one of the focal points of his book.
www.goethe.de /ins/ie/prj/bmo/004/en1168381.htm   (380 words)

  
 Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof • Languages at Southampton University
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof is Professor of German and Cultural Studies and a specialist in discourse analysis.
Meinhof, Ulrike H. 'Initiating a public: Malagasy music and live audiences in differentiated cultural contexts'.
Meinhof, U.H (2004) 'Metadiscourses of culture in British TV commercials' In Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland, and Dariusz Galasinski (eds.) Metalanguage.
www.lang.soton.ac.uk /profiles/meinhof.htm   (1039 words)

  
 TIME.com: Guilty As Charged -- May 9, 1977 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Studying near by, under armed guard, was a notorious anarchist she had interviewed in prison and deeply admired, Andreas Baader, then 27 and serving time for the 1968 fire-bombing of two Frankfurt department stores.
From then until their capture in 1972, Baader and Meinhof led their terrorist gang, the "Red Army Faction," in a series of daring crimes across West Germany: holding up banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police.
Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her prison cell in 1976.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,947908,00.html   (606 words)

  
 The Turbulent Life of Ulrike Meinhof: What is the RAF?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The RAF was founded in 1970 with the liberation of Andreas Baader, operated from the underground, and was centered on Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof.
Meinhof claimed that the action of the urban guerilla was never directed against the people but instead against the imperialist apparatus i.e.
The suicide by Meinhof was later doubted by an International Investigatory Commission and it was postulated that the state had commissioned her execution.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~schen20m/classweb/ulrikemeinhof/RAF.htm   (807 words)

  
 RTÉ News: New allegations on Ulrike Meinhof
The daughter of the German left-wing extremist, Ulrike Meinhof, has claimed that her mother's brain was removed from her body for scientific investigation without the family's permission.
Meinhof was one of the founders of the violent Red Army Faction, which carried out a campaign of killings and bombings against leading industrial figures in the 1970s.
Ms Roehl has alleged that Meinhof's brain was preserved in a jar and is kept in a cardboard box at Magdeburg University.
www.rte.ie /news/2002/1110/meinhof.html   (185 words)

  
 New York Film and Video Festival
Its narrative centers on the historical figure of Ulrike Meinhof, co-founder of the German Red Army Faction.
Mixing actual events surrounding the nationwide hunt for her with the visual characteristics of the suspense thriller and television crime reenactments, the video challenges preconceived notions of gender and criminal identities.
Born in Germany, raised in London (England), Ulrike graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design (London) with a BA (Hons.) in Film and Video.
www.nyfilmvideo.com /dir/filmpages/shorts/kubutta.htm   (153 words)

  
 Ulrike Meinhof | Biographie
Mit sechs Jahren verliert Ulrike Meinhof ihren Vater, neun Jahre später stirbt ihre Mutter, und sie wächst unter der Vormundschaft der Historikerin Renate Riemeck (1920-2003) auf.
Ulrike Meinhof kämpft gegen die atomare Aufrüstung, gegen Springer, gegen das militärische Engagement der USA in Vietnam.
Sie verläßt Klaus Rainer Röhl, den sie 1961 geheiratet hatte, und zieht mit ihren Zwillingen 1968 nach Berlin.
www.fembio.org /biographie.php/frau/biographie/ulrike-meinhof   (367 words)

  
 Wo ist Ulrike Meinhof begraben? - Infos zur Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ulrike Meinhof, Journalistin und Mitbegründerin der terroristischen Rote-Armee-Fraktion (RAF), wurde auf dem Dreifaltigkeits-Friedhof an der Eisenacher Straße in Berlin Tempelhof beigesetzt.
Sechs Tage zuvor erhängte sich die 41-jährige Ulrike Meinhof in ihrer Zelle in Stuttgart-Stammheim.
Meinhof trat im Gefängnis zweimal in den Hungerstreik.
www.rafinfo.de /faq/mitglieder/wo_ist_ulrike_meinhof_begraben.10.php   (111 words)

  
 John Benjamins: Contributions by Ulrike H. Meinhof
Ulrike H. Meinhof is author/editor of the following titles.
Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), 1–12.
Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), 127–148.
www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=9174   (146 words)

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