Astrid Proll
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Born | Astrid Huberta Isolde Marie Luise Hildegard Proll 29 May 1947 Kassel, Germany |
Other names | Anna Puttick |
Organization | Red Army Faction |
Astrid Huberta Isolde Marie Luise Hildegard Proll (born 29 May 1947) was an early member of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang).[1] She is a photo editor and published a book.
As a Baader-Meinhof member
Proll was the younger sister of Thorwald Proll. They were children of an architect. They met Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin through him; Thorwald left the group relatively early in its history, after being involved in firebombings in Frankfurt in 1968. Proll was involved in bank robbery. 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
On the run
While at the sanatorium, Proll was required to report to the police, but she soon escaped and went underground. Given contact details of people in London she decided to go to England, arriving there at the age of 26. In
On 15 September 1978 Proll was discovered and arrested by the
Return to Germany
Back in Germany, Proll's attempted murder charge was dropped when it was gathered that the state had withheld information that could have cleared her but she was still sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment on account of bank robbery and falsifying documents; however, she had already spent at least two-thirds of that time in German and English prisons and therefore was released immediately. She did not rejoin the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Proll went on to study film and photography at the
Proll participated in interviews about her time in the Baader-Meinhof Gang and has published a
During a radio chat show, when asked if she was "terribly ashamed" of being associated with the RAF, Proll said she was not, but went on to say that she did disapprove of their increasingly violent acts.[5] Interviewed by Iain Sinclair for his book Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, she said that she would like to settle in Britain but did not have the money to do so.
Having previously worked as a photo editor, she is currently advising the young think tank xaidialoge on how to conceptualise democracy in a language of pictures.
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-679-41596-3.
- ^ http://uniset.ca/other/cs4/puttick2.html
- ISBN 9783931141844. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ^ Conolly, Kate (6 October 2002). "Astrid Proll's journey to Terror Chic". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
- BBC Radio Four Woman's Hour, 5 December 2007, retrieved 12 October 2008, on Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/listenagain/2007_49_wed.shtml
Further reading
- Chapter "The Blue Fence" (featuring interview transcripts, pp. 562–70) in Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire (2009), Iain Sinclair