Jean Asselmeyer

Jean Asselmeyer is a documentary filmmaker and committed activist. Born on January 11, 1944, in Mulhouse, he has lived between France and Germany, where he campaigned alongside revolutionary figures such as Rudy Dutschke. Jean Asselmeyer has lived between France and West Germany since 1967-68. In 1967, he was active in the Federal Republic of Germany alongside Rudi Dutschke, known as "Rudy the Red," in the Socialist Socialist Party (SDS), then in the German Red Aid, and was close to the "anti-imperialist" publishing house "TriKont" (Tricontinental). In 1973, he founded a revolutionary group and reportedly led a guerrilla training course himself. He was the liaison between the defenders of Andreas Baader and the revolutionary groups in Munich. In 1976, he returned to France, where he founded the magazine Combattants anti-impérialiste (Anti-Imperialist Fighters). At that time, in the mid-1970s, he was one of the main leaders of the "International Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners in Western Europe" (CIDPPEO), founded in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in December 1974 at the initiative of an international collective of lawyers, including Klaus Croissant. He organized the entire campaign in France to support and defend West German prisoners, and wrote articles in the press under various pseudonyms. As a filmmaker, Jean Asselmeyer participated in the 1975 production of "De Qui Dépend Que L'Oppression Demeure?" (On Whom Does Oppression Remain?) by Pierre-André Boutang…