Christian Semler
(1938) was a leading member of the SDS (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund) during the late 1960s. He lives and works as a freelance journalist in Berlin.
Eurozine Articles
From pacifism to violence and back again
The failure of the German extra-parliamentary opposition to reflect upon its gradual slide towards violence led to the leftwing terrorism of the 1970s, argues Christian Semler. It was only with the ecological movement that pacifism returned to the agenda. [more]
Is the tide of German memory turning?
No one in Germany is attempting to rewrite the past, but in the run up to the sixtieth anniversary of the end of WWII, there have been attempts to initiate a more "normal" discourse in the present. [more]





