What significance does the Red Army Faction hold within German history? Is it suitable as a prism for reflecting on art, trauma, and memory after 1945? And what insights does it provide us about German society and its conscious and unconscious mechanisms of self-understanding? Svea Bräunert approaches these and other questions through art: literature, film, and visual arts have felt both addressed and challenged by the RAF from the very beginning. By engaging with left-wing terrorism, they tackle a theme that opens up a wide range of historical, political, media-related, and mnemonic questions. In addition to canonical positions by Richter, Kluge, and Enzensberger, more recent works by Demand, DeLillo, and Dumas are also considered. The exploration of artistic approaches is set within the context of a theme.