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There is barely a mention of her acclaimed journalistic career pre-RAF, when she was one of West Germany's leading feature writers and also was very present on radio and television, working for e.g. WDR and SFB. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.128.66.121 ( talk) 12:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
I seem to remember that there was an article (perhaps in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) that talked about Meinhof having brain surgery and that it affected her thinking. I think the theory was that it, in effect, made her a terrorist. Would we want to mention that here? I can look up the exact particulars before adding it in, but I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in seeing that here. Or is that perhaps out of place? - Maaya 02:19, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
it says: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Bettina Röhl (Tochter von Ulrike Meinhof), but: even if Bettina Röhl ist Ulrike Meinhofs Daughter, it's not up to her to release the photo, because she hasn't taken the photo. Only the photografer could do that. It seem's quite clear a professional photografer has taken the picture. But even if a private aficionado has taken the picture, it cant't bee Bettina, who approx 3 years old when the pcture was taken. So please delete the picture on commons. I like Burke's Peerage 08:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I've done a heavy rewrite of the article (at Talk:Ulrike_Meinhof/zaTemp for now), mainly based on the German article. It could do with sources more than anything (some of which I can get of the DE article) but I am going to switch it over in the next week or so unless there are any objections. (Oh and feel free to correct.) Zetetic Apparatchik 02:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Not much noted is Ulrikes' experimenting with L.S.D. When she 'Tripped' for the first time she plunged into a deep panic attack. The cause of the attack was a terror she had that she would never 'sober up' from the Acid and would be forever in an Alice in Wonderland World. Johnwrd ( talk) 03:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
I encounter this annoying fact in Wikipedia, too frequently to be just an accident, that people's mother's name do not get mentioned in the biographies. Why is that? Granted that Ulrike's mother may not have been proud of her daughter, but the same can be said about her father! Could we please treat mothers equally as fathers? For those of us who may have forgotten it, we are now seven long years into the 21st century! Incidentally, Frau Meinhof won't do!
--BF 01:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
This section seems badly crowbar'd in (and the foreshortened quote is even worse than my translation). If someone wants to try to defend it or suggest a rewrite themselves, then they're welcome to; otherwise I'm going to butcher it myself. (I'll accept that it's not entirely irrelevant but it's hard to give an accurate account of whatever the hell she's trying to get at, and I'm not sure that details of Mahler actually clarify the situation more. My personal reading, probably over-sympathetic I suspect, is that she's trying explain Nazi anti-Semitism away, as it were, as an anti-Capitalist reaction, rather than endorsing anti-Semitism. I'd welcome a discussion of this though, even better with some actual understanding of the German.) Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 07:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the one who put that in and I agree that I had to "crowbar it in". I don't speak German and took the quote from the referenced article. The article suggests (probably correctly) that it betrays confusion in her attitude to Jews. It is occasionally quoted as evidence of Baader-Meinhof antisemitism. I think it needs to remain in the article in some form to highlight the weird attitudes to JEws of the German far left in that period. I suppose it is related to their close identification with the Palestinians (and their use of Palestinian training). I think the quote is ambiguous (as is most antisemitism in my experience), rather then being antisemitic it suggests misinformed stereo-typing and ignorance and of course she had no time to prepare the statement. It sounds like she's referring to Marx "On the Jewish Question" which is widely regarded as an antisemitic text ( Karl_Marx#Marx_and_antisemitism she was probably not aware of that). By the way the BM trained with PFLP who recieved funding from a former Nazi called Francois Genoud. see http://soc.world-journal.net/harabr.html I would put it in the text but I can't find an academic reference (haven't looked hard).
http://ww2.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/layout/set/print/content/view/full/60470
Telaviv1 ( talk) 08:50, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I understand you decided to re-introduce the sentence concerning Mahler's antisemitism. Do you have some justification on how this is relevant to Meinhof? Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 18:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I thought it demonstrated the ambiguous nature of her statement and the affect on her of Mahler's views but I can see that people like yourself might find it irritating. If you want ot remove it that's OK, though I may then at a later date try to insert a third party quote about the problematic nature of her statement on Auschwitz.
Telaviv1 ( talk) 11:19, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I certainly think something about the quote is more informative that an insinuation. I guess it also stems from be uncomfortable about the use of the word 'admitting'; I suspect Mahler wasn't particularly reluctant to profess his racism. I'll leave it until it irritates me again in a few days. ;)
I still believe some kind of section (either Meinhof-specific, or linked to in the RAF article) on the RAF's rather varied political theory (what there is of it...) including some member's curious reaction to anti-Semitism. Of course that means someone has to write it...
I still believe Meinhof's statement is somewhat ambiguous, although deliberately so to be unpleasant and provocative. Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 13:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
A section should clarify the questions about Meinhofs death. I do not like how the text now cites the "official investigation" since this is exactly what people question. How was the autopsy performed? What happened at the crimescene and why do scources conflict?
I just read Ditfurts biography on Meinhof and she heavily disputes that Meinhof was "isolated". The conflict with Ensslin ended "at least two months before her death". Post52 ( talk) 22:39, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I won't deny that there are those who believe Ulrike Meinhof did not kill herself; however it should be noted that this is a minority viewpoint. Beyond this, there is overwhelming evidence, as presented by the offical investigation noted in the article, that she committed suicide while there is very little hard evidence that her death occurred due to homicide or what have you.
I would not object to a small section explaining the common reasoning behind the opposing viewpoint; I would reject any attempt to introduce weasel-words to undermine the claim that she did kill herself without properly referenced credible sources. Discussion is welcomed.
Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 18:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
The examination of Ms Meinhof is entirely consistant with death by 'self strangulation'. Ms Meinhofs' health actualy 'improved' when she was arrested by the German Police, (her health had steadily worsened in her last day's on the run). Johnwrd ( talk) 02:59, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
This is a (poor) google-translation from Swedish Wikipedia. According to those sources, the inquiry in question raises doubt she commited suicide. I'm not convinced, but I still believe this should be mentioned: "A group of British doctors were asked to study the autopsy report and found that Meinhof's body did not show the usual signs of suicide by hanging. [10] The doctors was also concluded that Meinhof may have been the victim of rape before she died, when the external genitalia, according to autopsy protocol, showed significant swelling. [11] The autopsy had not made the so-called histamine test, which could show whether Meinhof's death was suicide or not. [12]
Michael Oberwinden, one of Meinhof lawyers, said that he had less than a week before Meinhof's death had had a very involved conversation with her. [13] They had ruled that the trial against her had now reached a key stage. In a call with his older sister Wienke in March 1976 gave Meinhof: "If they say that I committed suicide, so be sure that it was murder." [14]
The German magazine Stern announced in August 2008 that found more than 400 photographs, which belonged to a German police photographer. [15] The photographs show including the dead Ulrike Meinhof and cell interiors of the so-called Death Night. One of the photographs on Meinhof, hanging in a break grated towel in cell window grilles, shows that her left leg is based on a chair. [16] Prison report said the chair had fallen [17].
-It should be noted that one of the sources is the inquiry you refer to: Der Tod Ulrike Meinhofs... Have you read it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.216.122.253 ( talk) 20:53, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Can we get the original German of the quote? Also, it is incomplete - I recall an earlier part that went ' the worst part is, we are all agreed [on the Holocaust]'.
A statement like "six million Jews were murdered and carted on to the rubbish dumps of Europe for being that which was maintained of them – Money-Jews" could be the standard far-left claim that the supposed anger of the workers at imperialism, capitalism, etc. was diverted on to the Jews. The rest of the quote tends to support this. Or, it could be a statement that the Jews were more guilty that others of involvement in the system the RAF hated, along the lines of Marx's thought in his "A World Without Jews". The earlier statement of support for the murder of the Israeli atheletes tends to support that.
Meinhof's statement "Being that which was maintained of them" is ambiguous. Does it mean they truly were what was said of them, or does it mean they were treated as though it were true? The article needs to clarify this. Expert linguists, please weigh in. 77.69.34.203 ( talk) 10:22, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Her mother and Renate Riemeck were lovers (says Jutta Ditfurth). (Perhaps not verifiable?). Riemeck ((born in 1920, Peters)) in 1940 was a young NS historian (says D.). ((Peters simply calls her a fellow-student)). In 1946 Ingeborg M. and Renate R. will join the SPD. (Peters: Ingeborg M. started to study after her husband died, finishes it in 1944 (Promotion)) I. M. died in 1949. (U. M. is well educated in the protestant faith, says Peters (does not match Ditfurth's insistance on the NS ideology of M's parents past, but D. always to be handled with care)).
Meinhof, the journalist was as popular as Rudolf Augstein.
In it's best times before the student protests erupted, konkret sold 20,000, but was much more widely read (Peters, p. 148). I just see that wikipedia has a much much higher circulation for the late 60s.
Jutta Ditfurth,Rudi and Ulrike, Munich: Droemer, 2008. Butz Peters, Tödlicher Irrtum, Berlin: Argon, 2004-- Radh ( talk) 19:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I did my best to summarize the (most known) counter-arguments as shortly as I could, although it seems a big section at last. To respond proactively to the question "why this section is bigger than the official arguments " etc..., the answer is simple: Because the arguments supporting the murder scenario are much more than the ones supporting the suicide scenario. Anyone who knows about other facts, opinions, or anything supporting the official scenario can write them down, under: "Imprisonment and death" or anywhere he thinks they fit, even though I think there aren't. Stelarov ( talk) 18:49, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
but are conspiracy theories really that encyclopedic to begin with? 16:03, 9 May 2016 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.56.183.71 ( talk)
Why does the article imply that she could have been murdered by her comrades? I don't think there is any evidence for that. I understand that (unlikely and implausible) conspiracy theories have to be mentioned simply because so many want to believe them, but I've never heard anyone suggesting that she was murdered by her comrades. The pressure they put on her may have contributed to her suicide but there's no way she could have died against her will at the hands of other prisoners (unless one alleges that the prison guards wanted that to happen, but if the government had indeed decided to murder their prisoners, why bother with potentially messy intra-prisoner violence?). Tillalb ( talk) 11:28, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
Why is this blatant conspiracy theorizing on the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.129.47.74 ( talk) 05:02, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
I would like to write some "quotes" (well maybe even long ones), other people said about Meinhof. Should I put it here or in http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulrike_Meinhof where Meinhof's own quotes also are?
I have added the POV-section tag to the section, as I believes it fails NPOV guidelines, especially balancing different views. All of the quotes are high appraisal like: "She was not only the best journalist, Germany ever had, but also the greatest German woman after Rosa Luxemburg.", which quite likely doesn't guarantee a balance of different views considering she was a very controversial section. Either more critical quotes have to be added, or then the section could be removed. A list of quotes might be more fitting to Wikiquote. -- Pudeo ' 22:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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Spelling "Wienke Zitzlaff" is apparently difficult. 94.191.150.248 ( talk) 09:00, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
'Compatriot' means 'someone from the same country'. Ensslin was German as were most of the people concerned in this story - I wonder if the original editor didn't mean 'colleague' or 'confederate'? Guyal of Sfere ( talk) 22:09, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
"A Letter from a Prisoner in Death Row" (Brief einer Gefangenen aus dem Toten Trakt).
No, "toter Trakt" doesn't mean "death row", even though that's the literal translation. It means "isolation", as in an isolated section of a prison. 2A02:AA1:1007:7AF:98F5:811F:2A93:7ACF ( talk) 16:46, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
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There is barely a mention of her acclaimed journalistic career pre-RAF, when she was one of West Germany's leading feature writers and also was very present on radio and television, working for e.g. WDR and SFB. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.128.66.121 ( talk) 12:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
I seem to remember that there was an article (perhaps in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) that talked about Meinhof having brain surgery and that it affected her thinking. I think the theory was that it, in effect, made her a terrorist. Would we want to mention that here? I can look up the exact particulars before adding it in, but I wanted to see if anyone would be interested in seeing that here. Or is that perhaps out of place? - Maaya 02:19, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
it says: Mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Bettina Röhl (Tochter von Ulrike Meinhof), but: even if Bettina Röhl ist Ulrike Meinhofs Daughter, it's not up to her to release the photo, because she hasn't taken the photo. Only the photografer could do that. It seem's quite clear a professional photografer has taken the picture. But even if a private aficionado has taken the picture, it cant't bee Bettina, who approx 3 years old when the pcture was taken. So please delete the picture on commons. I like Burke's Peerage 08:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I've done a heavy rewrite of the article (at Talk:Ulrike_Meinhof/zaTemp for now), mainly based on the German article. It could do with sources more than anything (some of which I can get of the DE article) but I am going to switch it over in the next week or so unless there are any objections. (Oh and feel free to correct.) Zetetic Apparatchik 02:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Not much noted is Ulrikes' experimenting with L.S.D. When she 'Tripped' for the first time she plunged into a deep panic attack. The cause of the attack was a terror she had that she would never 'sober up' from the Acid and would be forever in an Alice in Wonderland World. Johnwrd ( talk) 03:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
I encounter this annoying fact in Wikipedia, too frequently to be just an accident, that people's mother's name do not get mentioned in the biographies. Why is that? Granted that Ulrike's mother may not have been proud of her daughter, but the same can be said about her father! Could we please treat mothers equally as fathers? For those of us who may have forgotten it, we are now seven long years into the 21st century! Incidentally, Frau Meinhof won't do!
--BF 01:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
This section seems badly crowbar'd in (and the foreshortened quote is even worse than my translation). If someone wants to try to defend it or suggest a rewrite themselves, then they're welcome to; otherwise I'm going to butcher it myself. (I'll accept that it's not entirely irrelevant but it's hard to give an accurate account of whatever the hell she's trying to get at, and I'm not sure that details of Mahler actually clarify the situation more. My personal reading, probably over-sympathetic I suspect, is that she's trying explain Nazi anti-Semitism away, as it were, as an anti-Capitalist reaction, rather than endorsing anti-Semitism. I'd welcome a discussion of this though, even better with some actual understanding of the German.) Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 07:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm the one who put that in and I agree that I had to "crowbar it in". I don't speak German and took the quote from the referenced article. The article suggests (probably correctly) that it betrays confusion in her attitude to Jews. It is occasionally quoted as evidence of Baader-Meinhof antisemitism. I think it needs to remain in the article in some form to highlight the weird attitudes to JEws of the German far left in that period. I suppose it is related to their close identification with the Palestinians (and their use of Palestinian training). I think the quote is ambiguous (as is most antisemitism in my experience), rather then being antisemitic it suggests misinformed stereo-typing and ignorance and of course she had no time to prepare the statement. It sounds like she's referring to Marx "On the Jewish Question" which is widely regarded as an antisemitic text ( Karl_Marx#Marx_and_antisemitism she was probably not aware of that). By the way the BM trained with PFLP who recieved funding from a former Nazi called Francois Genoud. see http://soc.world-journal.net/harabr.html I would put it in the text but I can't find an academic reference (haven't looked hard).
http://ww2.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/layout/set/print/content/view/full/60470
Telaviv1 ( talk) 08:50, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I understand you decided to re-introduce the sentence concerning Mahler's antisemitism. Do you have some justification on how this is relevant to Meinhof? Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 18:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
I thought it demonstrated the ambiguous nature of her statement and the affect on her of Mahler's views but I can see that people like yourself might find it irritating. If you want ot remove it that's OK, though I may then at a later date try to insert a third party quote about the problematic nature of her statement on Auschwitz.
Telaviv1 ( talk) 11:19, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I certainly think something about the quote is more informative that an insinuation. I guess it also stems from be uncomfortable about the use of the word 'admitting'; I suspect Mahler wasn't particularly reluctant to profess his racism. I'll leave it until it irritates me again in a few days. ;)
I still believe some kind of section (either Meinhof-specific, or linked to in the RAF article) on the RAF's rather varied political theory (what there is of it...) including some member's curious reaction to anti-Semitism. Of course that means someone has to write it...
I still believe Meinhof's statement is somewhat ambiguous, although deliberately so to be unpleasant and provocative. Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 13:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
A section should clarify the questions about Meinhofs death. I do not like how the text now cites the "official investigation" since this is exactly what people question. How was the autopsy performed? What happened at the crimescene and why do scources conflict?
I just read Ditfurts biography on Meinhof and she heavily disputes that Meinhof was "isolated". The conflict with Ensslin ended "at least two months before her death". Post52 ( talk) 22:39, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I won't deny that there are those who believe Ulrike Meinhof did not kill herself; however it should be noted that this is a minority viewpoint. Beyond this, there is overwhelming evidence, as presented by the offical investigation noted in the article, that she committed suicide while there is very little hard evidence that her death occurred due to homicide or what have you.
I would not object to a small section explaining the common reasoning behind the opposing viewpoint; I would reject any attempt to introduce weasel-words to undermine the claim that she did kill herself without properly referenced credible sources. Discussion is welcomed.
Zetetic Apparatchik ( talk) 18:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
The examination of Ms Meinhof is entirely consistant with death by 'self strangulation'. Ms Meinhofs' health actualy 'improved' when she was arrested by the German Police, (her health had steadily worsened in her last day's on the run). Johnwrd ( talk) 02:59, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
This is a (poor) google-translation from Swedish Wikipedia. According to those sources, the inquiry in question raises doubt she commited suicide. I'm not convinced, but I still believe this should be mentioned: "A group of British doctors were asked to study the autopsy report and found that Meinhof's body did not show the usual signs of suicide by hanging. [10] The doctors was also concluded that Meinhof may have been the victim of rape before she died, when the external genitalia, according to autopsy protocol, showed significant swelling. [11] The autopsy had not made the so-called histamine test, which could show whether Meinhof's death was suicide or not. [12]
Michael Oberwinden, one of Meinhof lawyers, said that he had less than a week before Meinhof's death had had a very involved conversation with her. [13] They had ruled that the trial against her had now reached a key stage. In a call with his older sister Wienke in March 1976 gave Meinhof: "If they say that I committed suicide, so be sure that it was murder." [14]
The German magazine Stern announced in August 2008 that found more than 400 photographs, which belonged to a German police photographer. [15] The photographs show including the dead Ulrike Meinhof and cell interiors of the so-called Death Night. One of the photographs on Meinhof, hanging in a break grated towel in cell window grilles, shows that her left leg is based on a chair. [16] Prison report said the chair had fallen [17].
-It should be noted that one of the sources is the inquiry you refer to: Der Tod Ulrike Meinhofs... Have you read it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.216.122.253 ( talk) 20:53, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Can we get the original German of the quote? Also, it is incomplete - I recall an earlier part that went ' the worst part is, we are all agreed [on the Holocaust]'.
A statement like "six million Jews were murdered and carted on to the rubbish dumps of Europe for being that which was maintained of them – Money-Jews" could be the standard far-left claim that the supposed anger of the workers at imperialism, capitalism, etc. was diverted on to the Jews. The rest of the quote tends to support this. Or, it could be a statement that the Jews were more guilty that others of involvement in the system the RAF hated, along the lines of Marx's thought in his "A World Without Jews". The earlier statement of support for the murder of the Israeli atheletes tends to support that.
Meinhof's statement "Being that which was maintained of them" is ambiguous. Does it mean they truly were what was said of them, or does it mean they were treated as though it were true? The article needs to clarify this. Expert linguists, please weigh in. 77.69.34.203 ( talk) 10:22, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Her mother and Renate Riemeck were lovers (says Jutta Ditfurth). (Perhaps not verifiable?). Riemeck ((born in 1920, Peters)) in 1940 was a young NS historian (says D.). ((Peters simply calls her a fellow-student)). In 1946 Ingeborg M. and Renate R. will join the SPD. (Peters: Ingeborg M. started to study after her husband died, finishes it in 1944 (Promotion)) I. M. died in 1949. (U. M. is well educated in the protestant faith, says Peters (does not match Ditfurth's insistance on the NS ideology of M's parents past, but D. always to be handled with care)).
Meinhof, the journalist was as popular as Rudolf Augstein.
In it's best times before the student protests erupted, konkret sold 20,000, but was much more widely read (Peters, p. 148). I just see that wikipedia has a much much higher circulation for the late 60s.
Jutta Ditfurth,Rudi and Ulrike, Munich: Droemer, 2008. Butz Peters, Tödlicher Irrtum, Berlin: Argon, 2004-- Radh ( talk) 19:05, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
I did my best to summarize the (most known) counter-arguments as shortly as I could, although it seems a big section at last. To respond proactively to the question "why this section is bigger than the official arguments " etc..., the answer is simple: Because the arguments supporting the murder scenario are much more than the ones supporting the suicide scenario. Anyone who knows about other facts, opinions, or anything supporting the official scenario can write them down, under: "Imprisonment and death" or anywhere he thinks they fit, even though I think there aren't. Stelarov ( talk) 18:49, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
but are conspiracy theories really that encyclopedic to begin with? 16:03, 9 May 2016 (UTC)~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.56.183.71 ( talk)
Why does the article imply that she could have been murdered by her comrades? I don't think there is any evidence for that. I understand that (unlikely and implausible) conspiracy theories have to be mentioned simply because so many want to believe them, but I've never heard anyone suggesting that she was murdered by her comrades. The pressure they put on her may have contributed to her suicide but there's no way she could have died against her will at the hands of other prisoners (unless one alleges that the prison guards wanted that to happen, but if the government had indeed decided to murder their prisoners, why bother with potentially messy intra-prisoner violence?). Tillalb ( talk) 11:28, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
Why is this blatant conspiracy theorizing on the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.129.47.74 ( talk) 05:02, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
I would like to write some "quotes" (well maybe even long ones), other people said about Meinhof. Should I put it here or in http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulrike_Meinhof where Meinhof's own quotes also are?
I have added the POV-section tag to the section, as I believes it fails NPOV guidelines, especially balancing different views. All of the quotes are high appraisal like: "She was not only the best journalist, Germany ever had, but also the greatest German woman after Rosa Luxemburg.", which quite likely doesn't guarantee a balance of different views considering she was a very controversial section. Either more critical quotes have to be added, or then the section could be removed. A list of quotes might be more fitting to Wikiquote. -- Pudeo ' 22:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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Spelling "Wienke Zitzlaff" is apparently difficult. 94.191.150.248 ( talk) 09:00, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
'Compatriot' means 'someone from the same country'. Ensslin was German as were most of the people concerned in this story - I wonder if the original editor didn't mean 'colleague' or 'confederate'? Guyal of Sfere ( talk) 22:09, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
"A Letter from a Prisoner in Death Row" (Brief einer Gefangenen aus dem Toten Trakt).
No, "toter Trakt" doesn't mean "death row", even though that's the literal translation. It means "isolation", as in an isolated section of a prison. 2A02:AA1:1007:7AF:98F5:811F:2A93:7ACF ( talk) 16:46, 5 February 2023 (UTC)