Initiativgruppe P.P. Zahl (Frankfurt am Main) Archives

Period 1977-1980
Total size   0.08 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

German action group; originated in the second half of the 1970s; tried to reopen the case of Peter-Paul Zahl, who was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for wounding a police-officer in a gunfight in 1972; Zahl (born in Freiburg, Germany 1944) had settled in West-Berlin to escape military service; he was a member of the Neue Linke and Gruppe 61; started the Publishing-House Peter Paul Zahl in 1967, issuing the literary journal Spartacus and the series p.p. quadrat; sentenced to a half year term because of the publication of the pamphlet Freiheit für alle Gefangenen in 1970; during his second imprisonment Zahl published several novels, poems and essays and in 1980 he was awarded the literary prize of the city of Bremen for his novel `Die Glücklichen'; in the same year he was transferred to the prison in Berlin-Tegel, where he was allowed to work at the Schaubühne in Berlin; released in 1982; emigrated to Jamaica 1985.

Content

Signature lists, demanding the reopening of the case and the release of Peter-Paul Zahl; correspondence by Lutz Eisel and Heinrich Hannover, the lawyers of Zahl, with the judicial authorities; a diary, letters and other texts, written by Zahl in prison 1977-1980.

Processing information

List made by Sibille Zours in 2000