Category Archives: Ulrike Meinhof

‘In 1966, a political development took place that all of us had sensed was in the air, namely the Grand Coalition. The Grand Coalition meant that Kiesinger, a former Nazi, became chancellor, and Willy Brandt, a former anti-Nazi, became Minister of Foreign Affairs. Everyone who didn’t fit into this spectrum, everyone who could no longer find a political home thanks to this unholy alliance between Nazis and anti-Nazis, tried, if not to get organised, to get together and talk elsewhere. Ulrike moved into this circle. On the one hand, she moved in elite circles, and on the other, she was an active social critic, interested in homes for children in care, interviewing women who worked on production lines, above all digging into the most disadvantaged layers of society. This was a basic contradiction that kept arising. It shaped her life to a great extent, and in the end, it tore her life apart.’