Gudrun Ensslin - Pastor's daughter, scholarship holder, terrorist: What do these keywords say about the person? How did her radicalization come about? The focus of the book is on Gudrun Ensslin's shift from a predominantly bourgeois existence to a life underground. This turn of the later co-founder of the RAF towards militancy and terrorism seems to have occurred without any significant ideological preparation. Until 1967, for example, Ensslin hardly participates in demonstrations. For her, the priority is to rise within the left-liberal cultural establishment of the Federal Republic, a planned dissertation on Hans Henny Jahnn, and ultimately her child. The death of Benno Ohnesorg on June 2, 1967, marks the beginning of her radicalization, which catapults her directly into arson at a department store and subsequently to the founding of the RAF.