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In the early '90s, the German left-wing politician Petra Kelly was shot in her sleep by her lover Gert Bastian, an ex-Nato general who later turned the gun on himself. The news of the murder-suicide rocked the German nation, with the news media speculating on various motives behind the tragedy, with theories ranging from jealousy to an espionage plot involving the Chinese and the atomic energy lobby. Swiss director Thomas Imbach was not convinced by any of this, for it was clear to him that Petra was partially responsible for her own death. Several years later, wishing to explore this notion, Imbach set out to make Happiness Is a Warm Gun, a fantastical biopic that begins where the life of Petra Kelly ends. The setting is purgatory (which looks exactly like an airport), where Petra (Linda Olsansky) is found waiting to take flight to a spiritual eternity. Gert (Herbert Fritsch) appears on the scene a moment later and ... begins Petra's investigation into their demise.
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Petra Kelly is being honored, in memoriam, for her groundbreaking work for Tibet in the German Bundestag. Petra Kelley co-founded the German Green Party, 'Die Gruenen,' in 1979 and later became a member of the Bundestag and a prominent advocate for the rights of the Tibetan people. She introduced parliamentary resolutions on Tibet in 1987, 1989 and 1990, all of which passed unanimously. Her life was tragically cut short almost exactly 10 years ago, in October 1992.
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In 1984 the fiery parliamentarian and champion of the West German Greens, Petra Kelly, made her second visit to Australia. She urged that the various Greens in Australia develop a national identity. Partly as a result of this, just after Christmas of the same year, 50 Greens activists gathered in Tasmania to organise a national conference. This ultimately led to the 'Getting Together' conference at Sydney University during Easter 1986. Over 500 people attended. The diversity of interests led to a lively debate about the road ahead; in fact the diversity was large enough to block that road.
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The deaths of Willy Brandt and Petra Kelly in a way mark the end of two successive generations of mass leaders, two eras of the West European Left, spanning more than fifty years. Willy Brandt, a man of very modest beginnings, identified from his earliest youth with the struggle of the organized labour movement for socialism. When resolute resistance to the rise of fascism was demanded in Germany, he broke with social democracy, joined the
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The German politician and founder of the Green party, Petra Kelly, was born on this day in 1947. She studied politics at international universities, including Washington, and worked for senator Robert Kennedy among others. She founded the Green Party in 1980 and became spokeswoman in the party’s first federal board. She was a parlamentarian in the German Bundestag several times from 1983 until 1990. She passionately campaigned for human rights and anti-nuclear and peace policies. In 1982 she received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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In 1947, Petra Kelly was born in Günzburg as Petra Karin Lehmann. She lived in Germany with her family until she was 13, when her parents divorced. Her mother remarried an American, and the family moved to the US in 1960. Kelly studied Political Science from 1966-1970 at the American University in Washington D.C. She was very successful at the university and won the prize of "Most Outstanding Foreign Woman Student." During the presidential elections of 1968, Kelly worked for Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.
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