Editing Red Army Faction (section)

==In popular culture==
=== Films ===
Numerous West German film and TV productions have been made about the RAF. These include Klaus Lemke's telefeature ''{{ill|The Arsonists (1969 film)|de|Brandstifter (1969)|lt=Brandstifter}}'' (''The Arsonists'', 1969); [[Volker Schloendorff]] and [[Margarethe von Trotta]]'s co-directed ''[[The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (film)|The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum]]'' (a 1975 adaptation of [[Heinrich Böll]]'s novel ''[[Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum]]''); ''[[Germany in Autumn]]'' (1978), co-directed by 11 directors, including [[Alexander Kluge]], Volker Schloendorff, [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], and [[Edgar Reitz]]; Fassbinder's ''[[The Third Generation (1979 film)|Die dritte Generation]]'' (''The Third Generation'', 1979); [[Margarethe von Trotta]]'s ''[[Marianne and Juliane|Die bleierne Zeit]]'' (''The German Sisters''/''Marianne and Juliane'', 1981); and [[Reinhard Hauff]]'s ''[[Stammheim (film)|Stammheim]]'' (1986). Post-reunification German films include [[Christian Petzold (director)|Christian Petzold]]'s ''[[The State I Am In (film)|Die innere Sicherheit]]'' (''The State I Am In'', 2000); [[Kristina Konrad]]'s ''Grosse Freiheit, Kleine Freiheit'' (''Greater Freedom, Lesser Freedom'', 2000); and Christopher Roth's ''Baader'' (2002).

[[Uli Edel]]'s 2008 ''[[The Baader Meinhof Complex]]'' (German: ''Der Baader Meinhof Komplex''), based on the bestselling book by [[Stefan Aust]], was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in both the [[81st Academy Awards]] and [[66th Golden Globe Awards]].

Outside Germany, films include Swiss director [[Markus Imhoof]]'s ''[[The Journey (1986 film)|Die Reise]]'' (''The Journey'') (1986). On TV, there was [[Heinrich Breloer]]'s ''{{ill|Death Game (1997 film)|de|3=Todesspiel|lt=Todesspiel}}'' (''Death Game'') (1997), a two-part docu-drama, and Volker Schloendorff's ''[[The Legend of Rita|Die Stille nach dem Schuss]]'' (''The Legend of Rita'') (2000).

There have been several documentaries: ''Im Fadenkreuz – Deutschland & die RAF'' (1997, several directors); Gerd Conradt's ''Starbuck Holger Meins'' (2001); [[Andres Veiel]]'s ''[[Black Box BRD]]'' (2001);<ref>[http://www.kino-germanfilm.de/?p=475 "''Der Baader Meinhof Komplex'' vs ''RAF Film Chronicle''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719052252/http://www.kino-germanfilm.de/?p=475 |date=19 July 2011 }} by Ron Holloway, accessed 19 April 2009</ref> Klaus Stern's ''Andreas Baader – Der Staatsfeind'' (''Enemy of the State'') (2003); Ben Lewis's ''In Love With Terror'', for [[BBC Four]] (2003);<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/baader-meinhof.shtml BBC4 website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905213006/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/baader-meinhof.shtml |date=5 September 2011 }}, accessed 19 April 2009</ref> and ''Ulrike Meinhof – Wege in den Terror'' (''Ways into Terror'') (2006).

The 2010 feature documentary ''[[Children of the Revolution (2010 film)|Children of the Revolution]]'' tells Ulrike Meinhof's story from the perspective of her daughter, journalist and historian [[Bettina Röhl]], while [[Andres Veiel]]'s 2011 feature film ''[[If Not Us, Who?]]'' provides a context for the RAF's origins through the perspective of Gudrun Ensslin's partner Bernward Vesper. In 2015, Jean-Gabriel Périot released his feature-length, found-footage documentary ''A German Youth'' on the Red Army Faction.<ref>{{Cite web|title = A German Youth brings the Red Army Faction to the Melbourne International Film Festival: review|url = https://theconversation.com/a-german-youth-brings-the-red-army-faction-to-the-melbourne-international-film-festival-review-45301|access-date = 12 September 2015|first = Dirk de|last = Bruyn| date=3 August 2015 |archive-date = 10 September 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150910090211/https://theconversation.com/a-german-youth-brings-the-red-army-faction-to-the-melbourne-international-film-festival-review-45301|url-status = live}}</ref>

The [[Suspiria (2018 film)|2018 remake]] of ''[[Suspiria]]'' features a secondary character attempting to run away to join the Red Army Faction, serving as a catalyst for the later events of the film.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-a-german-history-primer.html |title=Suspiria: A German History Primer|date=30 October 2018|access-date=19 July 2020 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813181243/https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/suspiria-a-german-history-primer.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Fiction and art ===
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* [[Heinrich Böll]]'s book ''[[The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum]]'' (1974) describes the political climate in West Germany during the active phase of the RAF in the seventies. Schlöndorff and Trotta (who knew the leading RAF cadre) filmed the book in 1975.
* [[Heldon]], a French [[Experimental rock|experimental]] [[electronic rock]] band, released a fundraising single entitled ''Soutien à la RAF'' ''(support to the RAF'') with one track named ''Baader-Meinhof Blues''
*[[Brian Eno]] released a single 'B' side in 1978, entitled "RAF" (featuring a cut-up tape loop of German dialogue) named after the Red Army Faction.
* ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'' 1978 episode "Close Quarters" features a German terrorist organization known as the "Meyer-Helmut Group", and was possibly inspired by the RAF.
* [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]], the industrial band from Sheffield, England, recorded "Baader-Meinhof" that pondered the group's importance in history and their motivations.
* The Norwegian painter [[Odd Nerdrum]] made a painting called ''[[The Murder of Andreas Baader]]'' in 1977–1978, that shows Nerdrum's personal commentary to the events in the Stammheim prison.
* [[Gerhard Richter]], a German painter whose series of works entitled ''[[18. Oktober 1977|18 October 1977]]'' (1988) repainted photographs of the Faction members and their deaths.
* In 1990, the album ''[[Slap!]]'' by the influential British [[anarcho-punk]] band [[Chumbawamba]] featured a song titled "Ulrike", about [[Ulrike Meinhof]] and the RAF.
*[[Tom Clancy]]'s 1991 novel ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' features the arrest of RAF members in former [[Eastern Bloc]] countries with the cooperation of the [[Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)|democratized Soviet Union]] at the [[Cold War (1985–1991)|end of the Cold War]] as a major plot point. In the book, embittered RAF terrorists ally with the [[Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] to procure a lost Israeli atomic bomb to start a [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]]. After the nuclear detonation on U.S soil, the RAF attempts to launch a ground war in Berlin with a battalion of commandeered tanks, but are wiped out in a matter of hours by the armed forces of a reunified Germany.
* [[Christoph Hein]]'s novel {{lang|de|In seiner frühen Kindheit ein Garten}} (''In His Early Childhood, a Garden'') deals with a fictionalized aftermath of the Grams shooting in 1993.
* [[Josef Žáček]], a Czech painter, created a series of paintings entitled ''Searching in Lost Space 1993''<ref>Series of paintings [https://www.artlist.cz/en/works/untitled-from-the-searching-in-lost-space-1993-series-103724/ Searching in Lost Space 1993] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216115738/https://www.artlist.cz/en/works/untitled-from-the-searching-in-lost-space-1993-series-103724/ |date=16 December 2019 }} Josef Žáček's portraits of members of the Red Army Faction, 1993</ref> that were inspired by events that had occurred in 1993 in [[Bad Kleinen]].
* In 1996, British singer songwriter [[Luke Haines]] released a 9-track album titled ''[[Baader Meinhof (album)|Baader Meinhof]]''. In this concept album, all songs are a romanticized retelling of the RAF actions.
* [[Bruce LaBruce]]'s 2004 film ''[[The Raspberry Reich]]'' is an erotic satire of the RAF and of [[terrorist chic]].
* In 2003, [[The Long Winters]] released the song "Cinnamon", about the RAF.
* In 2004, Canadian singer–songwriter [[Neil Leyton]] composed and released a song entitled "[[Ingrid Schubert]]".
* Australian–British playwright [[Van Badham]]'s play ''Black Hands/Dead Section'' provides a fictionalized account of the actions and lives of key members of the RAF. It won the [[Queensland Premier's Literary Awards]] in 2005.
* The 2005 feature film ''[[See You at Regis Debray]]'', written and directed by C. S. Leigh, tells the story of the time Andreas Baader spent hiding in the apartment of Régis Debray in Paris in 1969.
* The 2011 album ''Amok'' by German band [[Weena Morloch]] features the song {{lang|de|italic=no|"Die Nacht der Stumpfen Messer"}} ("The Night of Blunt Knives", a play on the [[Night of the Long Knives]]) which deals with [[Andreas Baader]]'s and [[Gudrun Ensslin]]'s death in prison.

=== Science ===
* The Red Army Faction is the inspiration and namesake for the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, also known as the [[frequency illusion]], a [[cognitive bias]] in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it. The name was coined in a 1994 letter to the [[St. Paul Pioneer Press]] in which the writer described repeatedly noticing the name of the gang after mentioning it once.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1994-10-16 |title=Sunday Bulletin Board: 'I have dubbed it The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon' |url=https://www.twincities.com/1994/10/16/baader-meinhof-phenomenon-sunday-bulletin-board/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=Twin Cities |language=en-US}}</ref>