Vida y muerte de Petra Kelly

by Sara Parkin

Petra Kelly fue una de las más destacadas activistas ecologistas y feministas del siglo XX. El 19 de octubre de 1992 la policía alemana descubrió los cadáveres de Petra y de su compañero Gert Bastian en su casa de Bonn (Alemania). Ambos habían muerto de un disparo casi tres semanas antes. Este suceso conmovió a Alemania, a Europa y al mundo entero. La hipótesis oficial afirmó que se había tratado de un suicidio consentido por ambas partes: Bastian habría disparado contra Petra y luego contra sí mismo. Sin embargo, esta versión no llegó a convencer y se extendieron otras hipótesis en las que se señalaba la posible participación de la CIA, la Stasi o de grandes empresarios vinculados a la energía nuclear. Sara Parkin (verdes británicos) amiga de Petra publicó esta biografía en 1994.

Genres: Politics, Biography, History, Germany

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Julio The Fox · Rating 4 out of 5]

A love letter to a flower child who left us too soon. In the early Eighties German activist and co-founder of the Green Party Petra Kelly represented a fresh voice in an East versus West world that had grown stale from too much political rhetoric and saber-rattling. She and her Green comrades entered the German parliament on a platform of nuclear disarmament, dismantling NATO bases, freeing political prisoners in both Germanies and saving the environment. Behind this children's crusade was a fragile woman, half-American by adoption and education, whose private life contained much pain. She wanted to heal the world and herself. The tragic murder-suicide deaths of Petra and her lover, a former West German General, in 1992 is still shrouded in mystery, but her powerful voice lives on. Sara Parkin interviewed her family and friends on two continents for a glimpse at the woman who, if only for one moment, changed the world.

[Tamra · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book made me realise my complete lack of knowledge of German history. Being able to see the perspective of someone from a country whose soil had just seen a horrendus war, and her political life as an outcome was wonderful.

[iratxe · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Ser tierno y al mismo tiempo subversivo: eso es lo que significa para mí, a nivel político, ser verde y actuar como tal”.