She graduated in the Honor companies at Warren High School in 1959. In her family, the social injustices of the world were often discussed, and she is said to develope been sensitized to social problems in West Germany and the world as a whole.Īt age eighteen, Ensslin spent a year in the United States, where she attended high school in Warren, Pennsylvania. Ensslin was a well-behaved child who did living at school and enjoyed working with the Protestant Girl Scouts, and doing parish defecate such as organizing Bible studies. Gudrun Ensslin, the fourth of seven children, grew up in Bad Cannstatt, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, her father Helmut Ensslin was a pastor of the Evangelical Church. She was involved in five bomb attacks, with four deaths, was arrested in 1972 as well as died on 18 October 1977 in what has been called Stammheim Prison's 'Death Night.' Early life

Ensslin was perhaps the intellectual head of the RAF. The image, or a similar one from the same film, appears frequently in articles about Ensslin, women terrorists, and the Red Army Faction more generally.Gudrun Ensslin German: 15 August 1940 – 18 October 1977 was the German far-left terrorist as well as founder of the West German far-left militant multinational Red Army Faction Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also invited as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.Īfter becoming involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the politicization of his anarchist beliefs. By extension, German left-wing terrorism is also sexualized and made pornographic. Ensslin's body, identity, and life are sexualized and made pornographic, the better to undermine her agency and the politics with which she is associated. Ensslin's role in the film is conflated with real life, just as the preterrorist period is conflated with the terrorist period of her life.

The film tends to be branded as pornography in newspaper and magazine articles, and indeed the caption reads: “Szenen aus dem Leben einer Terroristin: Pfarrerstochter Gudrun Ensslin als nackte Darstellerin in einem Pornofilm” (Scenes in the life of a woman terrorist: Pastor's daughter Gudrun Ensslin as naked actress in a porno film). It is a film still from Das Abonnement (1967), a short, experimental film that appeared three years before Ensslin went underground and the group formed that would become the RAF. An image of an almost naked Gudrun Ensslin dominates the article and page two of this Bild edition (fig. The article is titled “Das Leben der Terrormädchen: Potente Männer, scharfe Waffen” (The life of the Terror Girls: potent men, loaded weapons) and is designated as “Thema des Tages” (topic of the day). AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN BILD in February 1974 demonstrates how violence perpetrated by women can be redefined as a crime against gender and normal female sexuality.

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