Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz

Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz, 2018

Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz (born Gretchen Klotz; March 3, 1942) is a German-American author and former activist. In West Berlin and West Germany in 1960s she was active with her husband Rudi Dutschke in the Socialist Students Union (SDS) and the Federal Republic's broader "extra-parliamentary opposition" (APO).

Life

Gretchen Klotz was born in conservative, suburban Oak Park, Illinois. She majored in philosophy at Wheaton College, where she first participated in student demonstrations.[1] During a semester studying German at the Goethe Institute, Munich, she met Dutschke, a charismatic figure among radical students in West Berlin. In March 1965 she moved to Germany and married him while taking up studies at Free University of Berlin.[2][3]

Following an assassination attempt on her husband in April 1968, she and the first of their three children moved with him to Cambridge, England, and then Aarhus, Denmark.[4] Six years after Rudi Dutschke's death in 1979 from complications arising from his injuries in 1968, she moved back to the United States, returning to Berlin in 2009.[5]

She has published memoirs and reflections on her and Rudi Dutschke's experiences of the "anti-authoritarian" 1960s student movement, which she believes "changed Germany".[1]

Works

  • Rudi Dutschke. Wir hatten ein barbarisches, schönes Leben. Eine Biographie. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 1996, ISBN 978-3-462-02573-6.
  • (ed.) Rudi Dutschke: Jeder hat sein Leben ganz zu leben. Die Tagebücher 1963–1979. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 2003, ISBN 978-3-442-73202-9.[6]
  • 1968. Worauf wir stolz sein dürfen. Kursbuch Kulturstiftung gGmbH, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-961-96006-4.[7][8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b Rigney, Robert (May 30, 2018). "Mrs. Rudi Dutschke". EXBERLINER.com. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  2. ^ Freie Universität Berlin. Freie Universität Berlin. Presse- und Informationsstelle., Freie Universität Berlin. Abt. Aussenangelegenheiten. Berlin: Nicolai. 1998. ISBN 3-87584-719-9. OCLC 42049463.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Barthels, Inga (November 30, 2018). "Zeit für eine Revolution". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  4. ^ "Gertchen Duschke-Klotz on her 'barbaric, beautiful' life in 1960s Cambridge". Varsity Online. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  5. ^ Iken, Katja (May 3, 2021). "Die FBI-Akten, Gretchen und Rudi Dutschke: »Sie fürchteten ihn als Gefahr für das Land«". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  6. ^ Leadership, The Berlin School Of Creative. "Rudi Dutschke's Creative Leadership And Legacy As Told By His Widow". Forbes. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  7. ^ Langenau, Lars (March 4, 2018). "Gretchen Dutschke: Was von 1968 bleibt". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  8. ^ "Gretchen Dutschke: "Rudi hätte Fridays for Future unterstützt"". www.rnd.de (in German). December 23, 2019. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  9. ^ Bäuerlein, Ulrike (April 6, 2018). "Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz: "Die 68er nahmen Frauen nicht ernst"". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  10. ^ dpa (March 12, 2018). "Berlin: 50 Jahre 1968 – Ein Besuch bei Gretchen Dutschke". SÜDKURIER Online (in German). Retrieved January 18, 2021.
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