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Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2196-7121
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Politische Morde ohne mediale Inszenierung – das war für linke Terroristen immer ausgeschlossen. Sie wollten die Öffentlichkeit erreichen, ihre Botschaften und Heilsideologien in die Gesellschaft tragen. Gabriele Metzler von der Humboldt- Universität in Berlin zeigt, dass der Staat darauf nicht unvorbereitet war. Er reagierte auf die medialen Stilisierungen und Herausforderungen des Terrorismus nicht nur mit politischen, polizeilichen und legislativen Mitteln, sondern auch mit einer breit angelegten publizistischen und performativen Gegenstrategie, die seine Widersacher sogar im eigenen Umfeld isolierte. Besonderen Reiz gewinnt dieser methodisch innovative Ansatz durch den transatlantischen Vergleich: Handelte Washington, das mit den linksradikalen Weathermen konfrontiert war, anders als Bonn, wo man mit der RAF zu tun hatte?
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Abstract: Nearly all Western liberal democracies were facing the challenge of left-wing political violence in the 1970s. Historical research has been focused for some years on the emergence of “terrorist” groups, on their radical political ideas, and their violent strategies that have been interpreted as acts of communication. Only recently, however, have the states′ responses to politically motivated acts of murder, abductions, bomb attacks, and bank robberies come into the focus of research. In this article the “anti-terror policy” of West Germany and the United States are analysed comparatively. Acts of government, police actions, and trials against perpetrators are interpreted from a perspective that blends performance theory and historical methods. Particular emphasis is put on performative acts that also involved the broader public and on narratives that were presented by major political actors (such as heads of government). In these narratives, references to war – either the Second World War or the Cold War – played an equally central part as labeling “terrorists’ and gendering “terrorism”. While terrorism research has highlighted the meaning of violence and living underground as a “way of life”, this article shows that to no lesser degree, also the fight against it implied habitual changes and the adoption of specific roles.
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volume:60
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number:2
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year:2012
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pages:249-277
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extent:30
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Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Berlin : De @Gruyter, 1953-, 60, Heft 2 (2012), 249-277 (gesamt 30), 2196-7121
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1524/vfzg.2012.0013
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023040314290708420853
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1524/vfzg.2012.0013
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023040314290708420853
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1285198751/34
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