An Hour with Stefan Aust

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When:

Fri 15 May ’09, 1:30pm–2:30pm

Where: ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Standard: $23.00
Earlybird pre 13 May: $19.50
Friend pre 13 May: $18.50
Student : $11.50
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.writersfestival.co.nz

Until 2008, Stefan Aust was the editor-in-chief of the highly popular and influential newspaper Der Spiegel, which once described him as the editor-in-chief of Germany! He has written widely on terrorism and the shady areas of secret services and their transgressions, and more broadly on the German economy and Iraq. An updated version of his seminal work The Baader Meinhof Complex was released to coincide with the new documentary of the same name. Having turned to terrorism in the 1970s to fight against perceived imperialism and the lingering spectre of the Nazis, the RAF had its genesis in the student movement of the late 1960s, when Aust personally knew Meinhof and Ensslin. While the leaders were incarcerated in Stammheim Prison from 1972 to 1977, further brutal outrages were carried out by second and third generations. Chair: Mark Sainsbury.