Baader-Meinhof site

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Mon Jul 2 10:15:11 PDT 2001


On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Dennis wrote:


> http://www.baader-meinhof.com/

Wow. My favorite part:


> December 1969, Berlin Filming begins on "Bambule," a television film
> scripted by Ulrike Meinhof. The film is about a riot among the
> residents of a girls youth home. Bambule was the TV movie that Ulrike
> Meinhof had written about a group of girls rioting in their youth
> home. It was scheduled to air on Sunday, 24 May, at 8:15 PM. But
> Meinhof had helped free Andreas Baader from prison custody two weeks
> earlier, and Bambule never aired. It was eventually aired on German TV
> in 1997. The script was published in book form in 1971.

Proof, as if we needed it, that in the metropoles of information capitalism, power comes out of the lens of a videocamera (and occasionally the crosshairs of a Counterstrike mod), not the barrel of a shotgun.

-- Dennis



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