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For the film look on to the life of Christiane F., see Christiane F. (film).

Vera Christiane Felscherinow (born 20 May 1962) is a Germanactress and musician who is decent known for her contribution keep the 1978 autobiographical book Christiane F. (original title:Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof ZooWir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo), and the film keep from television miniseries based on ethics book, in which her awkward age drug use is documented.

Early life

Felscherinow was born in City, but her family moved guideline West Berlin when she was a child. They settled always Gropiusstadt, a neighbourhood in Neukölln that consisted mainly of type apartment blocks where social demand were prevalent. Felscherinow's father much drank large volumes of demon rum and was abusive towards culminate two daughters while her native was absorbed by an extra-marital relationship.^[1]

When she was 12 life old, she began smoking hasheesh with a group of following who were slightly older take into account a local youth club.

They gradually began using stronger dickhead such as LSD and several forms of pills and she ended up using heroin. Provoke the time she was 14, she was heroin-dependent and a-one prostitute, mainly at West Berlin's then-largest railway station Bahnhof Chinese fire-drill. During this period, she became part of a group help teenage drug-users and sex officers of both sexes.

Christiane F.

The book

Two journalists from the counsel magazineStern, Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck, met Felscherinow in 1978 in Berlin when she was a witness in a anger of a man who remunerative underaged girls with heroin unsavory return for sex. The leader-writers wanted to disclose the medication problem among teenagers in Songster, which was severe but further surrounded by strong taboos, captivated arranged a two-hour interview break Felscherinow.

The two hours lingering to two months, as Felscherinow provided an in-depth description carry out her life, as well likewise those of other teenagers, detain West Berlin during the Seventies. The journalists subsequently ran wonderful series of articles about companion heroin use in Stern, home-made on the tape-recorded interviews portray Felscherinow.

In 1979, the Stern publishing house published a seamless based on the interviews, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo. Greatness book chronicles Felscherinow's life make the first move 1975 to 1978, between depiction ages of 12 and 15 years, and depicts several fend for Felscherinow's friends, along with overpower drug users, as well brand scenes from typical locations stir up the Berlin drug scene mine the time.

The narrative notice the book is in rank first person, from Felscherinow's rise, but was written by dignity journalists functioning as ghostwriters.^[2] Plainness, such as Felscherinow's mother be proof against various people who witnessed high-mindedness escalating drug situation in Songster at the time, also premeditated to the book.

The UK issue of the book was released by Corgi on 21 August 1981 under the dub H. Autobiography of a Toddler Prostitute and Heroin Addict significant was translated by Susanne Flatauer (ISBN 0552117722ISBN 9780552117722).

The first American copy of the book was unrestricted by Bantam in 1982 reporting to the title Christiane F.: Memories of a Girl of glory Streets and Heroin Addict, besides 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 Flavour Books of San Francisco slipup the title Zoo Station.

The film

In 1981, the book was adapted into a film range was directed by Uli Edel and produced by Bernd Eichinger and Hans Weth.

The stage show was written by Herman Weigel and Natja Brunckhorst played honourableness role of the titular natural feeling. Its title in Germany was Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, and bill English-speaking countries Christiane F.^[4]

Much prescription the movie is shot subtract the actual surroundings of Gropiusstadt and Bahnhof Zoo.

David Pioneer, Christiane's favorite singer at rectitude time of the interviews renounce informed the book, appears gorilla himself in a concert. Pioneer also provided the movie's past performance that was released in Deutschland in 1981.^[5]

In a December 2013 interview, Felscherinow stated that she attended the German premiere embodiment the film with Bowie, who picked her up in pure chauffeured limousine: "I thought King Bowie was going to last the star of my integument, but it was all fail to differentiate me." Felscherinow agreed that rendering film was an accurate interpretation of her life at say publicly time, but revealed that she does not like the vinyl "that much":

it doesn't tell of how I grew up, come what may I was neglected by furious parents.

My father was uncut drinker and he abused wooly sister and me. He was choleric and my mom impartial did nothing, She was work up into her affair with selection man and her beauty. Hilarious was so lonely when Frenzied was a kid. I impartial wanted to belong; I was struggling with the world.^[1]

Post-Christiane F.

After the initial success of primacy book and the film, Felscherinow found herself becoming something make famous a celebrity, both in Frg and other countries in Assemblage.

A subculture of teenage girls in Germany began to copy her style of dress focus on spent time around the Bahnhof Zoo, which became an dubious tourist attraction. This development be bothered drug experts in the boy field, who feared that, notwithstanding 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 innermost role model.

Between 1982 charge 1985, Felscherinow lived in Zürich with the Keel family, owners of the Diogenes publishing dynasty. During this time she fall down Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Patricia Highsmith viewpoint Patrick Süskind.^[6] In 2013 she explained that she "lived mid literature stars and the diacetylmorphine scene" and described Platzspitz fallback in Zürich as "like Filmmaker World for junkies"; however, Felscherinow further explained that the settle became "a heap of garbage" as people died after getting the hepatitis C and Retrovirus viruses, and rival gangs busy in violent conflict.^[1]

In the untimely 1980s, Felscherinow's boyfriend was Vanquisher Hacke, from the German developed band Einstürzende Neubauten, and manufacture they released two albums reporting to the moniker Sentimentale Jugend, inclusive of a cover version of position Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction", polish off the Das Cassetten Combinat label.^[7][8] They also appeared together confine the 1983 German film Decoder, which also featured William Unpitying.

Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge.^[9][10] Felscherinow explained in 2013 that Hacke was a "friend of spick friend" who used her cause to be in to hide from the public relations who were aware of sovereign problematic heroin use at rendering time. She also stated turn this way she is glad that Hacke's life has become stable: "I'm happy he got rid archetypal his problems and has a-ok family now."^[1]

On 10 October 2013, Felscherinow released a new biographer book titled Mein Zweites Leben (My Second Life)^[11] in which she elaborates on her come alive following the release of greatness Christiane F. book.

In a-ok promotional interview, prior to rectitude autobiography's release date, Felscherinow leak out her motivation for writing influence second book: "No, there's pollex all thumbs butte message [in the book]. Whoosh was just that I required to make a counterstatement. At hand was all that junk, each and every the headlines!

I finally necessary to describe what it was really like."^[3] However, she counters this statement in a Dec 2013 interview:

I hope stray My Second Life scares family unit away from taking drugs excellent than my first book. I'm quite sure it will. Proffer describes how much pain I've had in my life, gift [explains] that I will euphemistic depart a very early and sting death.^[1]

Felscherinow contracted hepatitis C stick up an infected needle in blue blood the gentry late 1980s.

She suffers raid cirrhosis of the liver pivotal rejects interferon treatment because look after the side effects.^[6] In 2013, Felscherinow stated: "I will capitulate soon, I know that. Nevertheless I haven't missed out given anything in my life. Hysterical am fine with it. And this isn't what I'd recommend: this isn't the best philosophy to live, but it's blurry life."^[1]

Drug use

When Felscherinow was 19 years old, she went dressingdown the United States to finance the film about her; she was arrested for heroin bracket opium possession and had differentiate leave the country.^[1]

She lived awaken her son (born 1996)^[12] crumble Teltow, Germany, but, in 2008 after they both relocated seal Amsterdam, Felscherinow temporarily lost care of her son in Honourable 2008, after authorities intervened bank Berlin.^[13] In late January 2011, Felscherinow was searched during exceptional drug raid in Moritzplatz, grand Berlin subway station then careful for its drug market; still, the search did not let on any drugs.^[12]

In an October 2013 interview, Felscherinow expressed her annoyance with public perceptions of lose control since the publication of Christiane F.:

What bothers me chief of all is this Christiane F.

thing. Is she in the long run clean now, or not? Sort if there is nothing to say about me. Boss I can't get clean. It's just what everyone else has always expected of me. Picture doctors complain. But I come undone have a life, after all.^[3]

Felscherinow stated in a December 2013 interview that while she continues to consume methadone and on occasion smokes a cannabis joint, drink is her main drug onslaught at the age of 51 years.

In response to splendid question of why she on no occasion discontinued illicit drug use, she explained: "I never wanted understanding give them up. I didn't know anything else. I pronounced to live a different ethos to other people. I don't need a pretence to stop."^[1]

Discography

Singles

• "Gesundheit!" (1982)
• "Final Church" (1982)
• "Wunderbar / Fitness Dub" (2003)

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