Astrid Proll

Astrid Proll (* May 29, 1947 in Kassel) was co-founded the Red Army Faction (RAF ). She was involved in the liberation of Andreas Baader and imprisoned from 1971 to 1974 and from 1978 to 1980. Since then she has worked as a photographer and author.

Life

Astrid Proll joined Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst little son and her older brother Thorwald Proll on after they had been convicted of arson in 1968, and followed them after they had withdrawn up to Söhnlein of detention by fleeing into the ground. She was the real name to the Red Army Faction; he was inspired by the Japanese Red Army.

On May 6, 1971 Proll was arrested. The first trial against them was canceled due to their inability to stand trial, she was released from prison on February 1, 1974. Then they fled to England. There she worked under different names, among others, as a park warden and an auto mechanic.

On 15 September 1978 Proll, who called herself at that time Anna Puttick, was arrested in London and extradited to an approximately one-year legal dispute with Germany. On February 22, 1980, she was sentenced to a prison term of five and a half years for robbery and forgery; the remainder of the sentence, after allocation of custody in Germany and England was suspended.

Since the beginning of the 1980 Astrid Proll works as a photographer, writer and editor. Among other things, she worked for many years as a picture editor for the magazines Tempo, Der Spiegel and Time and The Independent newspaper operates.

Works

• Hans and Grete. Photos of the RAF from 1967 to 1977. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-351-02597-1.
• Goodbye to London. Radical Art and Politics in the 70's. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010.