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The Baader Meinhof Complex (German: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [deːɐ̯ ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪnhɔf kɔmˈplɛks] ⓘ) is a 2008 German drama film directed by Uli Edel. Written and produced by Bernd Eichinger , it stars Moritz Bleibtreu , Martina Gedeck , and Johanna Wokalek .
Shortly after Ulrike Meinhof's death in prison in 1976, Mohnhaupt was, on her own request, transferred to Stammheim Prison where the majority of other RAF prisoners were held captive. In Stammheim Prison she met Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader, and Jan-Carl Raspe, and was reportedly trained by them to become a leader of the RAF.
The Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoːtə ʔaʁˈmeː fʁakˌtsi̯oːn] ⓘ; RAF [ˌɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ⓘ), [a] also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (German: Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Baader-Meinhof-Bande [ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪnhɔf ˈɡʁʊpə] ⓘ), was a West German far-left militant group founded in 1970 and active until 1998.
In 2008, she published Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. Das Buch zum Film a book about the making of the Oscar-nominated film The Baader Meinhof Complex written and produced by her husband Bernd Eichinger and directed by Uli Edel. Following her husband’s fatal heart attack in January 2011, Eichinger wrote his biography BE. [2]
Memorial in Cologne. The kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer was one of the left-wing terrorist attacks called German Autumn in 1977.. German industrial leader and former Nazi SS officer Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped on 5 September 1977, by the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as Baader-Meinhof Gang, in Cologne, West Germany.
She was the getaway driver for Andreas Baader when he escaped from police custody with the help of Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Ingrid Schubert, Irene Goergens in 1970. Proll, along with Manfred Grashof , was stopped by police on 10 February 1971 but managed to get away.
One of Eichinger's last films was about the left-wing terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) and based on the book Der Baader Meinhof Komplex ("The Baader-Meinhof Complex") by Stefan Aust. [2] The range of genres of films, for television and the big screen, was unusually varied.
Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang".