Astrid Proll
Birthday: Born in 1947-05-29 in Kassel, Germany
Deathday: Alive
Astrid Proll became known as a co-founder of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Rote Armee Fraktion. She was involved in the liberation of Andreas Baader and was imprisoned from 1971 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. She then worked as a photographer, author and editor.
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Die Geschichte der RAF
Character: Self (Interviewee)
In 2014, Germany television network ZDF commissioned a comprehensive TV documentary on the history of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In six 45-minute parts, the series describes the origins, rise, and fall of the terrorist organization "Red Army Faction." Interviewees include Winfried Ridder, former head of department at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; Rainer Hofmeyer, former head of department at the Federal Criminal Police Office; and political scientist Dr. Wolfgang Kr...
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Die wilden Tiere
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Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg....
Baader-Meinhof Gang
Character: Raf-member
The Baader-Meinhof gang, a left-wing terrorist collective born of the student revolutions of the Sixties, terrorized West Germany with a series of bombings, assassinations and hijackings in the Seventies. They became die RAF - die rote army fraktion in 1970. It is claimed that property destruction during the Watts riots in the United States in 1965 influenced the practical and ideological approach of the RAF founders. As for changing the world, they failed. All they achieved was to make West Ger...
Children of the Revolution
Character: Self
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?...
The RAF: The Red Army Fraction
Character: Self
From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion....
Friendly Fire
Character: Self
Klaus Fried was a teenager when his father Erich Fried, the writer, died. He had to share him with the entire world public. The son embarks on a search, meets family members, friends and companions and, together with Julia Albrecht, tries to piece together a picture of his father from the memories of these people. When he meets Astrid Proll, co-founder of the RAF, the hard struggle for answers makes it clear how similar father and son are....