the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, Patty Hearst took on the alias "Tania". Minor planet 2283 Bunke, discovered in 1974 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova, is named after her. Venezuelan folk singer songwriter Ali Primera wrote a song titled "Tania," commemorating Bunke and her dedication to revolution. Tania Bunke also appears intermittently in the first part of Luigi Nono's 1972 music/theatre work Al gran sole carico d'amore. Heidi Specogna filmed a documentary about her in 1991. Before unification, Bunke was a folk legend in East Germany. At one time, there were 200 youth clubs named after her. She is portrayed by Franka Potente in Steven Soderbergh's 2008 biopic of Che Guevara, entitled Che. In fiction A 2007 novel by Chilean economist Sebastián Edwards entitled El misterio de las Tanias is inspired by Bunke's story. A character known as Tania Vunke appears in Chuck Pfarrers novel Killing Che. In the story Tania is an East German KGB spy who falls in love with Guevara when she is supposed to be helping to kill him. Eventually she betrays the KGB to fight for Che and dies in battle. A fictionalized version of Bunke appears in the shared world anthology Heroes in Hell, created by Janet Morris. Written in the 1980s, this version of Bunke incorporates what was then commonly believed about her work for the KGB and betraying Che to his death. In this series, Bunke is working for one of Satan's various intelligence agencies and is sent to find and (temporarily) assassinate Che, who is now running Hell's Dissidents. Further reading Tania, the Woman Che Guevara Loved, by José Antonio Friedl Zapata, Planeta, 1997, Tania: Undercover With Che Guevara in Bolivia, by Ulises Estrada, Ocean Press (AU), 2005, References External links Images of Tania Members of Che Guevara's Guerrilla Movement in Bolivia – by the Latin American Studies Organization 1937 births 1967 deaths People from Buenos Aires Anti-revisionists Argentine communists Argentine Jews Argentine revolutionaries East German spies Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians Women in war in South America Argentine people of German-Jewish descent Argentine people of Polish-Jewish descent Che Guevara Guerrillas killed in action Deaths by firearm in Bolivia Women in warfare post-1945 Argentine emigrants to East Germany University of Havana alumni East German women People from Bezirk Frankfurt