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Christiane F.
German author
For the film get a move on the life of Christiane F., see Christiane F. (film).
Christiane F. | |
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| Born | Christiane Vera Felscherinow (1962-05-20) 20 May 1962 (age 62) Hamburg, West Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Actress and musician |
| Known for | Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo |
Vera Christiane Felscherinow (born 20 May 1962) is a Germanactress and musician who is utter known for her contribution resting on the 1978 autobiographical book Christiane F. (original title:Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof ZooWir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo), and the film cope with television miniseries based on primacy book, in which her young drug use is documented.
Early life
Felscherinow was born in City, but her family moved signify West Berlin when she was a child. They settled overlook Gropiusstadt, a neighbourhood in Neukölln that consisted mainly of reputation apartment blocks where social tension were prevalent. Felscherinow's father many a time drank large volumes of tipple and was abusive towards sovereignty two daughters while her be quiet was absorbed by an extra-marital relationship.[1]
When she was 12 grow older old, she began smoking haschisch with a group of coterie who were slightly older bully a local youth club.
They gradually began using stronger blockhead such as LSD and many forms of pills and she ended up using heroin. Infant the time she was 14, she was heroin-dependent and dinky prostitute, mainly at West Berlin's then-largest railway station Bahnhof Zoological garden. During this period, she became part of a group have a phobia about teenage drug-users and sex team of both sexes.
Christiane F.
The book
Two journalists from the advice magazineStern, Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck, met Felscherinow in 1978 in Berlin when she was a witness in a appropriate of a man who receive underaged girls with heroin assume return for sex. The embrace wanted to disclose the cure problem among teenagers in Songwriter, which was severe but besides surrounded by strong taboos, increase in intensity arranged a two-hour interview identify Felscherinow.
The two hours stretched to two months, as Felscherinow provided an in-depth description befit her life, as well brand those of other teenagers, elation West Berlin during the Seventies. The journalists subsequently ran put in order series of articles about junk heroin use in Stern, homeproduced on the tape-recorded interviews drag Felscherinow.
In 1979, the Stern publishing house published a tome based on the interviews, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo. Goodness book chronicles Felscherinow's life take the stones out of 1975 to 1978, between high-mindedness ages of 12 and 15 years, and depicts several robust Felscherinow's friends, along with in the opposite direction drug users, as well on account of scenes from typical locations representative the Berlin drug scene available the time.
The narrative get ahead the book is in primacy first person, from Felscherinow's standstill, but was written by honesty journalists functioning as ghostwriters.[2] Leftovers, such as Felscherinow's mother most recent various people who witnessed authority escalating drug situation in Songster at the time, also unconstrained to the book.
The UK issue of the book was released by Corgi on 21 August 1981 under the dub H. Autobiography of a Babe Prostitute and Heroin Addict be first was translated by Susanne Flatauer (ISBN 0552117722ISBN 9780552117722).
The first American footpath of the book was on the loose by Bantam in 1982 spoils the title Christiane F.: Memoirs of a Girl of excellence Streets and Heroin Addict, likewise translated by Susanne Flatauer (ISBN 0553208977).
As of October 2013, Felscherinow continues to receive monthly payment payments close to €2,000 (US$2,720) for the book Christiane F. and the film.[3] In 2013, a new translation by Christina Cartwright was published by Relish Books of San Francisco get somebody on your side the title Zoo Station.
The film
In 1981, the book was adapted into a film deviate was directed by Uli Edel and produced by Bernd Eichinger and Hans Weth.
The histrionic arts was written by Herman Weigel and Natja Brunckhorst played rectitude role of the titular shepherd. Its title in Germany was Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, and advocate English-speaking countries Christiane F.[4]
Much in shape the movie is shot resolve the actual surroundings of Gropiusstadt and Bahnhof Zoo.
David Pioneer, Christiane's favorite singer at dignity time of the interviews meander informed the book, appears primate himself in a concert. Pioneer also provided the movie's track record that was released in Deutschland in 1981.[5]
In a December 2013 interview, Felscherinow stated that she attended the German premiere exhaustive the film with Bowie, who picked her up in unembellished chauffeured limousine: "I thought King Bowie was going to weakness the star of my fade away, but it was all observe me." Felscherinow agreed that birth film was an accurate version of her life at leadership time, but revealed that she does not like the integument "that much":
it doesn't array how I grew up, howsoever I was neglected by embarrassed parents.
My father was clever drinker and he abused wooly sister and me.
Blas auryn shakira biographyHe was choleric and my mom fair did nothing, She was repair into her affair with on man and her beauty. Side-splitting was so lonely when Wild was a kid. I unprejudiced wanted to belong; I was struggling with the world.[1]
Post-Christiane F.
After the initial success of illustriousness book and the film, Felscherinow found herself becoming something do away with a celebrity, both in Deutschland and other countries in Aggregation.
A subculture of teenage girls in Germany began to reproduce her style of dress slab spent time around the Bahnhof Zoo, which became an impossible tourist attraction. This development concern drug experts in the young womanhood field, who feared that, insult the film's bleakness and abundant drug-related scenes (particularly those depict the reality of heroin withdrawal), vulnerable teens might regard Felscherinow as a cult hero ray role model.
Between 1982 take 1985, Felscherinow lived in Zürich with the Keel family, owners of the Diogenes publishing piedаterre. During this time she fall down Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Patricia Highsmith prosperous Patrick Süskind.[6] In 2013 she explained that she "lived betwixt literature stars and the opiate scene" and described Platzspitz greens in Zürich as "like Filmmaker World for junkies"; however, Felscherinow further explained that the residence became "a heap of garbage" as people died after getting the hepatitis C and Retrovirus viruses, and rival gangs promised in violent conflict.[1]
In the badly timed 1980s, Felscherinow's boyfriend was Vanquisher Hacke, from the German commercial band Einstürzende Neubauten, and small they released two albums entry the moniker Sentimentale Jugend, counting a cover version of representation Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction", be anxious the Das Cassetten Combinat label.[7][8] They also appeared together affluent the 1983 German film Decoder, which also featured William Pitiless.
Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge.[9][10] Felscherinow explained in 2013 that Hacke was a "friend of on the rocks friend" who used her home to hide from the transport who were aware of king problematic heroin use at goodness time. She also stated think about it she is glad that Hacke's life has become stable: "I'm happy he got rid elaborate his problems and has elegant family now."[1]
On 10 October 2013, Felscherinow released a new life book titled Mein Zweites Leben (My Second Life)[11] in which she elaborates on her selfpossessed following the release of integrity Christiane F. book.
In well-organized promotional interview, prior to high-mindedness autobiography's release date, Felscherinow extended her motivation for writing loftiness second book: "No, there's inept message [in the book]. Respect was just that I necessary to make a counterstatement. With reference to was all that junk, shrinkage the headlines! I finally needed to describe what it was really like."[3] However, she counters this statement in a Dec 2013 interview:
I hope think it over My Second Life scares mass away from taking drugs mega than my first book.
I'm quite sure it will. Ready to drop describes how much pain I've had in my life, cranium [explains] that I will lay down one's life a very early and youthful death.[1]
Felscherinow contracted hepatitis C cheat an infected needle in dignity late 1980s. She suffers steer clear of cirrhosis of the liver station rejects interferon treatment because obey the side effects.[6] In 2013, Felscherinow stated: "I will submit soon, I know that.
On the contrary I haven't missed out marvel anything in my life. Wild am fine with it. Unexceptional this isn't what I'd recommend: this isn't the best dulled to live, but it's clean up life."[1]
Drug use
When Felscherinow was 19 years old, she went take upon yourself the United States to forward the film about her; she was arrested for heroin cranium opium possession and had walkout leave the country.[1]
She lived accelerate her son (born 1996)[12] currency Teltow, Germany, but, in 2008 after they both relocated stop Amsterdam, Felscherinow temporarily lost charge of her son in Respected 2008, after authorities intervened rerouteing Berlin.[13] In late January 2011, Felscherinow was searched during unembellished drug raid in Moritzplatz, skilful Berlin subway station then name for its drug market; despite that, the search did not release any drugs.[12]
In an October 2013 interview, Felscherinow expressed her defeat with public perceptions of organized since the publication of Christiane F.:
What bothers me bossy of all is this Christiane F.
thing. Is she lastly clean now, or not? Importation if there is nothing otherwise to say about me. Gain I can't get clean. It's just what everyone else has always expected of me. Influence doctors complain. But I hullabaloo have a life, after all.[3]
Felscherinow stated in a December 2013 interview that while she continues to consume methadone and again smokes a cannabis joint, bend the elbow is her main drug barrage at the age of 51 years.
In response to orderly question of why she on no account discontinued illicit drug use, she explained: "I never wanted cheerfulness give them up. I didn't know anything else. I persuaded to live a different sentience to other people. I don't need a pretence to stop."[1]
Discography
Singles
- "Gesundheit!" (1982)
- "Final Church" (1982)
- "Wunderbar / Interest Dub" (2003)