Wednesday, May 27, 2015

RAF terror – After the murder, the hostage – Süddeutsche.de

The filmmaker Julia Albrecht works in a documentary a family trauma on: your sister Susanne was one of the RAF command the 1977 Dresdner Bank chief Juergen Ponto murdered. The act was severe breach of trust, the two families loaded up today.



A documentary by Julia Albrecht. That’s once little more than a reversal of authorship. The film begins with the image of the murdered by the RAF on July 30, 1977 Spokesman of the Dresdner Bank, Jürgen Ponto.

A documentary so on terror in Germany. If one thinks. Then designate a quiet female voice and the historical facts, adding: “My sister Susanne was one of the perpetrators.” He continued: “. Jürgen Ponto and my father were close friends for decades”

The film is there no minute old, already he has left the track a classical historical reportage, is to report a work-up. ” / p>

Julia Albrecht has cinematically demonstrate attempts of her family and the Pontos have dealt with the absolute breach of trust, the fatal betrayal of her older sister.



RAF murders in 1977 Looking for the truth

One sister who belonged to the closer circle of RAF. The was also involved in an attack on the NATO Supreme Allied Commander Haig, to Yemen and after Haig Assassination dived after the Ponto-murder in the GDR, there built a new life under a different name, was unmasked after the Wall fell and because of the was condemned murder of Ponto.

“Everything about it was inconceivable”

She had confessed, she came in 1996 to probation. Susanne Albrecht also had therefore may occur in the movie of her sister. That does not happen. They speak no more about it, and the “private all attempts have failed miserably,” says Julia, who has worshiped her big sister – and was completely forgotten by her

The film puts this family at the center that. stands since the murder of Ponto, Julia’s godfather, in the shadow of the atrocity, almost it breaks, is it taken as hostage – and mandated for nearly forty years in order to cope with what happened

“It was indeed. everything from A to Z, it inconceivable, “says Christa, the mother who is almost boring questioned by the subsidiary, at the time indeed 13 years old then, as to the slipping of her older sister made the best hamburgers in the ratios could come terror, what happened between the families.

“For years,” says Julia, “it felt like as if we have been partakers.” All this is shocking, especially: describe in the unsparing candor, in the mother Albrecht and brother Matthias “the fact” that her since then dominated all aspects of life, has determined by others

Private snapshots to the precipice. To illustrate

They had to contend not only with the consequences of this attack for himself – “killer mother”, anonymous callers Christa Albrecht have called; the family also had close friendship with the Pontos lost -. and Susanne, from which one indeed for 13 years did not know whether she is still alive

Julia Albrecht mixed into the old pictures of German television to the murder and private snapshots and Super-8 sequences of the house of Albrecht to make all plastic.

On the one hand. On the other hand, however, to the discrepancy between familial well-being – you played tennis and polo, grilled in the garden, swimming in their own pool – and to illustrate the radical nature of terrorist crime, in short: to illustrate the abyss that had opened with the murder .

After a forty-five minutes says Matthias that he had felt as a victim, as “second-class victims”. This is understood to mean, the film does not press on the tear gland, to trigger empathy for this perception. Yet the audience also family therapy Angängen lives with a certain extent, the result is no longer close to the crime, but very, very close to the family of a former terrorist. This film can take hostage.

The consequences of the act , ARD, 22.45 clock.

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