By her early thirties, Ulrike Meinhof had achieved what others only dreamed of: she was a renowned journalist, living with her husband and two daughters in a villa in Blankenese, and was part of the leftist party scene in Hamburg and Sylt. Many considered her a role model of her time, and her principle in 1962 was still: "You don't change the world by shooting; you destroy it." However, in 1970, she left this life behind to go underground and co-found the Red Army Faction with Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. From then on, she was regarded as the "voice of the RAF" - and as "Public Enemy No. 1." Alois Prinz traces her life from her childhood in the Third Reich, her involvement in the peace movement, her confrontation with the guilt of Germans for the Nazi crimes, her career as a journalist, up to her death in Stammheim. He tells of an uncertain...