![]() ![]() I’m also kind of tired of it, I guess… I’ve outgrown it a bit.Īside from the media attention, has your last name and resemblance to your father been a burden? He can’t speak for himself but I don’t think other people should speak for him. Looking back now I think it’s kind of foolish. In my early twenties, I would say yes to everything and speak about him all the time, to anyone. It was part of a whole debate about my father’s past. It had to do with the photos of Fischer throwing stones and beating up a policeman in the 1970s. When you moved to Berlin to do an internship with the Green Party, you made a bit of a media splash. His book is more interesting in that way. My brother recently published a book and I think it’s a lot more personal, whereas what I wrote is more political. I don’t find it that interesting when I read it now. So you had to take an interest personally to find out more. ![]() Just generally that he was active in the student movement, that kind of thing. ![]() To be honest, we didn’t talk that much about him. I was surprised and confused, I guess.īut your mother or siblings must have explained him to you? There I got the feeling that he was quite famous and there was a lot of interest in him. We attended a 25-year reunion of ‘68 in the early 1990s, a big congress with Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn-Bendit that took place in Prague. I mean, he’s not even that unpopular among conservatives, because he was an early proponent of reunification.Īnd when did you yourself realise his importance? Obviously in Berlin more people were sympathetic to him than in other parts of Germany. Even when we were campaigning to get the street named after him, handing out flyers, we didn’t get any negative feedback. What kind of reaction do you get from people once they realise who your father was?Īlmost always positive. He was a little less rebellious in that way. He was definitely viewed as a rebel, but he was less counter-cultural than many others, I would say. He had a Christian upbringing, he wasn’t all into sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. He was a student revolutionary in the late 1960s, the most prominent figure of the SDS organisation, and he became fairly famous through his anti-Vietnam War congress. Keep yourself open.Ĭan you describe your father in your own words? I’d rather call myself a democratic socialist… Basically, I don’t think it’s that important to label oneself. Rudi-Marek, you’re named after the Austrian communist Franz Marek as well as your father Rudi Dutschke. Apart from the name and a slight resemblance, you’d never guess he’s the son of one of Germany’s most famous revolutionaries. ![]() In his Friedrichshain home, Marek is surrounded by children’s toys, books and other trappings of a peaceful domestic life. After dabbling in Green Party politics and working at the Hertie School, he’s now a stay-at-home father of two with several writing projects in the works. There he became interested in learning more about his father, moving to Berlin to conduct research that would result in his book, Spuren meines Vaters (2001). He grew up with two siblings – sister Polly- Nicole and brother Hosea-Che – in Denmark, Germany and the USA, travelling with his mother, best-selling author Gretchen Dutschke- Klotz, and eventually attending university in Massachusetts. He was born four months later, in April 1980. And when Rudi Dutschke died of complications from the assassination attempt on December 24, 1979, Marek was still in his mother’s belly. When a young right-wing fanatic fired three shots at his dad on Ku’damm April 11, 1968, Rudi- Marek (who goes simply by Marek) had not even been conceived. Rudi-Marek Dutschke on how it feels to be the son of Germany’s most iconic 1968 student leader… when you’ve never even met him. ![]()
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