Thorwald Proll

Thorwald Proll ( born July 22, 1941 in Kassel) is a writer and was active in the extra-parliamentary opposition in the 1960s.

With Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Horst Söhnlein he laid on April 2, 1968 fires in the two department stores Schneider and Kaufhof in Frankfurt to protest against the " genocide in Vietnam ." All perpetrators were quickly caught.

The four defendants were found in the subsequent process of arson and sentenced to three years in prison but was set at 14 months pending a decision on a possible revision released. The appeal was upheld in November 1969. Proll, Baader and Ensslin sat upon them to France from, little son took his detention.

The fugitives found in the Paris apartment of Régis Debray shelter. After Thorwald chavs sister, Astrid Proll, had joined the trio, he turned away in December 1969 by the group and left Paris for England. On November 21, 1970, he turned to the prosecutor Berlin -Moabit. In October 1971, he was released early from prison.

After his release Proll worked as a laborer, waiter, salesman and editor.

Thorwald Proll lives since 1978 as a poet, author and bookseller in Hamburg.

Works

  • Thorwald Proll: Thorwald's aesthetic journey to the Socialist Society Islands in London Paris Rome Strasbourg Nepal Milan Munich Naples West Berlin Cologne. Self Publishing, Cologne.
  • Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll, Horst Söhnlein: Prior to any such justice we do not defend ourselves. Final word in a department store fire trial. With an afterword by Bernward Vesper and a statement of the SDS Berlin.. Edition Voltaire, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1968 (Series: Voltaire pamphlet 27).
  • Thorwald Proll: no night for anyone. poems. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1975 ISBN 3-87956-076-5.
  • Thorwald Proll: The action on the track. Poems and Proll Agen; Edition Nautilus Verlag Lutz Schulenburg, Hamburg 1977 ( series: pamphlet 22) ISBN 3-921523-24-9.
  • Thorwald Proll, Martina View ( ed.): The most beautiful youth is trapped. Freedom for Irmgard Möller in poetry and prose. 1994, ISBN 3-930272-01-6.
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