Holger Meins(1941-1974)
- Cinematographer
- Sound Department
- Director
Holger Meins is nomally known as a member of the so-called "first
generation" of the German left-terrorist group RAF ("Rote Armee
Fraktion", "Red Army Fraction"; aka "Baader Meinhof Group"), and he is
famous for being the first group member to die in prison due to the
physical consequences of his long-lasting hunger-strike. Meins was
among the first 2 dozen students of the Berliner Film-und
Fernseh-Akademie (Berlin Film and Television Academy) founded in 1966.
Already open for communist ideology, he produced a small number of
films of which several belong to the "Agitprop" genre (agitation and
propaganda), e.g. a filmographic manual on how to produce a Molotov
cocktail. His life has been documented by Gerd Conradt in the documentary
movie Starbuck Holger Meins (2002).
