Klaus Rainer Röhl (1 December 1928 – 30 November 2021) was a German journalist and author, best known as founder, owner, publisher and editor-in-chief of konkret , the most influential magazine on the German political left from the 1960s to the early 1970s. He later became critical of communism and leftist tendencies.
22-556: Konkret has been the name of two German magazines. konkret was originally the name of a magazine established by Klaus Rainer Röhl in 1957, that was an influential magazine on the German political left in the 1960s. The magazine was dissolved in 1973 as a consequence of Röhl's rejection of the leftist terrorism in Germany (in which his former wife Ulrike Meinhof took active part). Since 1974, Hermann L. Gremliza has published
44-485: A house where Ulrike's sister, Wienke had hidden the children, in order to transfer them to Gibellina , a commune in Sicily where other left-wing families and communists lived. According to Jutta Ditfurth , Ulrike's biographer, Ulrike believed she would win the custody case over the children from Röhl which meant that Wienke would take custody of the kids. Finally, journalist Stefan Aust , a long-time friend of Röhl abducted
66-725: A monthly magazine with the same name, self-described as a "magazine for politics and culture". The current magazine is significantly less influential than the original konkret magazine and part of the German left. It is described as leftist extremist by the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution and also as Anti-German by the State Office for Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1955, Klaus Rainer Röhl started
88-606: Is "reading what others don't want to know" ( lesen, was andere nicht wissen wollen ). Notable contributors during the Gremliza era were: Norbert Blüm , Wolf Biermann , Heinrich Böll , Daniel Cohn-Bendit , Jutta Ditfurth , Rudi Dutschke , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Jürgen Elsässer , Erich Fried , Robert Gernhardt , André Gorz , Günter Grass , Sebastian Haffner , Robert Kurz , Oskar Negt , Alice Schwarzer , Klaus Theweleit , Sahra Wagenknecht , Günter Wallraff . Klaus Rainer R%C3%B6hl Known as "K2R", Röhl founded
110-411: Is significantly less influential than the original konkret magazine and part of the German left. It is described as leftist extremist by the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution and also as Anti-German by the State Office for Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1955, Klaus Rainer Röhl started the monthly Studentenkurier ("Student Messenger"), which
132-581: The East German government. Innovative in its style, beautifully illustrated and printed on huge folio size heavy stock, its pages often ended up as posters on students' dorm walls and university campus fences. It had great influence on progressive intellectuals, both students and adults. In the high phase of the German student movement of the 1960s, it appeared biweekly and sometimes even weekly. Articles in konkret openly advocated sex with minors. One of
154-643: The Red Army Faction , also known as the RAF or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, together with Gudrun Ensslin , Andreas Baader , and Jan-Carl Raspe . Articles in konkret openly advocated sex with minors. Röhl's marriage with Ulrike was his second marriage. From his first marriage he also has a daughter Αnja Röhl, who in May 2010 accused him of sexual harassment against her. As a consequence of
176-678: The Hamburg sex trade, St Pauli Nachrichten . After the Communist Party of Germany was banned as unconstitutional in West Germany in 1956, he became a clandestine member of the then illegal party as an act of support. He was married to Ulrike Meinhof from 1961 until the spring of 1968, before her descent into left-wing terrorism . Their marriage produced two daughters, Regine and Bettina Röhl , who became an author critical of communism and far-left extremism. Ulrike later co-founded
198-407: The best known journalists on the magazine was Ulrike Meinhof , the editor-in-chief from 1960. She ended her work for konkret early in 1969 shortly before she joined the Red Army Faction . On 7 May 1969, the house of Konkret publisher Klaus Rainer Röhl was stormed by activists including konkret staff under Meinhof's leadership, its windows and furnishing destroyed. After a long conflict over
220-466: The children after Peter Homan misinformed him that Ulrike was about to send the children to a Jordanian boarding house where other children of refugees used to live. By that time, Röhl was on holiday in Italy. Aust delivered the girls to him in an apartment near Plaza Navona. Röhl and his daughters lived under constant police protection for some time, fearing a supposed attack or abduction by RAF members. Röhl
242-425: The early 1970s, his partner was Danae Coulmas, a Greek diplomat and author. Röhl died on 30 November 2021, a day shy of his 93rd birthday. Röhl was portrayed by Hans Werner Meyer in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex . Studentenkurier konkret has been the name of two German magazines. konkret was originally the name of a magazine established by Klaus Rainer Röhl in 1957, that
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#1732794445325264-438: The high phase of the German student movement of the 1960s, it appeared biweekly and sometimes even weekly. Articles in konkret openly advocated sex with minors. One of the best known journalists on the magazine was Ulrike Meinhof , the editor-in-chief from 1960. She ended her work for konkret early in 1969 shortly before she joined the Red Army Faction . On 7 May 1969, the house of Konkret publisher Klaus Rainer Röhl
286-590: The left-wing monthly magazine Studentenkurier in 1955. Röhl had been a secret Communist since 1951, and the magazine survived due to funding from the Communist East German regime. In 1957, the magazine was renamed konkret and rose to prominence in the 1960s as the primary magazine of the Außerparlamentarische Opposition and the German student movement . He had previously founded a weekly newspaper about and for
308-545: The mid-1980s, his political views gradually changed towards liberal conservatism . Röhl was a member of the German liberal party, the Free Democratic Party of Germany after 1995, and was then active in Liberale Offensive, the right-wing faction of the party that tried to revive the national liberal tradition represented by Gustav Stresemann , Thomas Dehler , and Erich Mende , among others. He
330-503: The monthly Studentenkurier ("Student Messenger"), which was published until 1957. Due to the contributions of many authors as Werner Riegel [ de ] , Peter Rühmkorf , Arno Schmidt , Kurt Hiller , it became a very influential magazine among students. On the basis of the success of the Studentenkurier , Konkret was founded by Röhl in 1957. Until 1964, it had clandestine ideological and financial relations with
352-493: The political orientation of konkret , particularly over the use of violence which Röhl strongly rejected, Röhl left the magazine in 1973, and shortly after, the magazine was dissolved. In 1974, Hermann L. Gremliza founded a magazine called konkret . He writes the introduction column of the magazine and its current location of publication is Hamburg . Konkret presents itself as an anti-establishment leftist magazine, standing to left of Germany's established parties. Its maxim
374-498: The radicalization in the late 1960s, and subsequent leftist terrorism, Röhl turned away from Marxism and gave his magazine a more moderate tone. This led to a power struggle between Röhl and those who supported the use of violence against the government (particularly his former wife), and his home in Hamburg was attacked in 1969 by Ulrike Meinhof and some konkret staff members. In June 1970, after Ulrike's command, Monica Berberich and Marianne X took Röhl and Ulrike's daughters from
396-557: Was also a regular columnist for the newspaper Junge Freiheit , and earned a doctorate in history at the Free University of Berlin under the supervision of Ernst Nolte in 1993, with a dissertation on cooperation between Communists and National Socialists against the Social Democratic Party ( Nähe zum Gegner , published as a book in 1994). He wrote several books critical of communism and the far-left. From
418-480: Was also supporting BKA's investigation providing information about Meinhof's past, places where she could be hiding, etc. The magazine konkret was dissolved in 1973. The year before, Röhl had joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany . For some years, he then published the moderate leftist magazine das da . From 1981 to 1984, he published the left-wing magazine Spontan . However, from
440-409: Was an influential magazine on the German political left in the 1960s. The magazine was dissolved in 1973 as a consequence of Röhl's rejection of the leftist terrorism in Germany (in which his former wife Ulrike Meinhof took active part). Since 1974, Hermann L. Gremliza has published a monthly magazine with the same name, self-described as a "magazine for politics and culture". The current magazine
462-674: Was published until 1957. Due to the contributions of many authors as Werner Riegel [ de ] , Peter Rühmkorf , Arno Schmidt , Kurt Hiller , it became a very influential magazine among students. On the basis of the success of the Studentenkurier , Konkret was founded by Röhl in 1957. Until 1964, it had clandestine ideological and financial relations with the East German government. Innovative in its style, beautifully illustrated and printed on huge folio size heavy stock, its pages often ended up as posters on students' dorm walls and university campus fences. It had great influence on progressive intellectuals, both students and adults. In
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#1732794445325484-412: Was stormed by activists including konkret staff under Meinhof's leadership, its windows and furnishing destroyed. After a long conflict over the political orientation of konkret , particularly over the use of violence which Röhl strongly rejected, Röhl left the magazine in 1973, and shortly after, the magazine was dissolved. In 1974, Hermann L. Gremliza founded a magazine called konkret . He writes
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