Holger meins biography of michael

  • Holger Klaus Meins (26 October 1941 – 9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died.
  • Michael Ballhaus was born in Berlin in 1935.
  • Holger Klaus Meins (26 October 1941 – 9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on.

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    Holger Meins

    German revolutionary, RAF member

    Holger Klaus Meins (26 October 1941 – 9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student who joined the Red Army Faction (RAF) in the early 1970s and died on hunger strike in prison.

    As a revolutionary

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    Meins became an important member of the RAF and was seen as a leading figure. He was very involved in the group's clandestine work, for instance hiring a metal sculptor to design a grenade casing and bomb mould designed which could be placed under a woman's dress, giving the impression that she was pregnant, telling the sculptor that it was a prop for a film project.[1]

    On 1 June 1972, Meins and Andreas Baader, along with Jan-Carl Raspe, went to check on a storage garage in Frankfurt where they were storing explosives. The police had been surveilling the garage after a tip from a local resident. Meins and Baader entered the garage and were immediately surrounded. The police blocked the exit of the garage and f

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    STARBUCK – HOLGER MEINS

    Holger Meins (19411974), a member of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe, died after a hunger strike in a German prison. His death has been interpreted in different ways ever since: as murder, suicide, a martyrs death, a sacrifice, or just a pointless fatality. His life also offered plenty of room for speculation. Apart from being a terrorist, Meins was also a painter, filmmaker, and photographer. 25 years after his death, Gerd Conradt offers his view on the life and motives of the man he attended rulle school with. Conradts conclusion fryst vatten that Meins was one of those people who had to live radically. «If I knew who God was, I would also know who I am», Meins wrote at the age of 20.

    Credits

    • Michael Ballhaus
    • Suzanne Beyeler
    • Manfred Blessmann
    • Gretchen Dutschke
    • Enzio Edschmid
    • Harun Farocki
    • Thomas Giefer
    • Alfred Klaus
    • Peter Lilienthal
    • Wilhelm Meins
    • Wolfgang Petersen
    • Margrit Schiller
    • Gerd Conradt
    • Hartmut Jahn
    • Armin Fausten
    • Hans Rombach
    • Steffen Gr
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      STARBUCK – Holger Meins
      A film from Gerd Conradt

      The interview partners

      Michael Ballhaus was born in Berlin in 1935. He served an apprenticeship as a photographer and cameraman for television. He lectured on cameras at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin in 1968. As a film cameraman, he has cooperated with Peter Lilienthal, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Wolfgang Petersen and others.

      Manfred Blessmann was born in Hamburg in 1941. He commenced studying at the University for Fine Arts there in 1962 and started a friendship with Holger Meins. He switched to Berlin in 1964, and was a master pupil of Peter Janssen. He has been working as an artist and lecturer in Berlin since 1973.

      Suzanne Beyeler was born in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1948. She studied Film Studies at the city’s School for Applied Arts. In 1969, she made a film about the playgroup movement Educated to be Subjects. Between 1972 and 1980, she studied at the German Film and Television A