Reading: Everybody Talks about The Weather... We don't
Ulrike Meinhof: No other figure represents the revolutionary policy of the 1968 movement and the radical violence against the „system contaminated with national socialism“ like Ulrike Meinhof. In the early sixties she was publicly viewed as an intellectual. Ten years later, she was the head of the Baader-Meinhof-Group. What leads a successful journalist, mother of two daughters and socially established woman to exchange the privileges of a mainstream for the life of a violent revolutionary?
Meinhof’s columns in the German magazine, konkret, describe her criticism of a rotten society and her political demands. They also mirror her very personal hopes and disappointments and her increasing resignation.
On November 18, the Goethe-Institute Montreal presents the first English translation of Meinhof’s columns. The collection, entitled Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t. The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof was edited by Karin Bauer, chair of the Department of German Studies of Ã山ǿ¼é, and has a preface by Elfriede Jelinek. The goal of this translation by Luise von Flotow is to give English readers access to Meinhof’s writings and contribute to the active discussion of the history of this protest movement and politically motivated violence. The columns that will be read at the Goethe-Institut include "Open Letter to Farah Diba", "From Protest to Resistance", "Napalm and Custard" and "Columnism". Related materials to be found in the library... "Everybody Talks about the Weather... We don't".