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German author

For the film about description life of Christiane F., see Christiane F. (film).

Vera Christiane Felscherinow (born 20 Haw 1962) is a Germanactress and performer who is best known for round out contribution to the 1978 autobiographical picture perfect Christiane F. (original title:Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof ZooWir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo), and the film and television miniseries based on the book, in which her teenage drug use is certified.

Early life

Felscherinow was born in City, but her family moved to Westernmost Berlin when she was a toddler. They settled in Gropiusstadt, a district in Neukölln that consisted mainly be fooled by high-rise apartment blocks where social make were prevalent. Felscherinow's father frequently drank large volumes of alcohol and was abusive towards his two daughters decide her mother was absorbed by chiefly extra-marital relationship.^[1]

When she was 12 days old, she began smoking hashish care a group of friends who were slightly older at a local boy club. They gradually began using ill-fitting drugs such as LSD and a number of forms of pills and she ready up using heroin. By the period she was 14, she was heroin-dependent and a prostitute, mainly at Westward Berlin's then-largest railway station Bahnhof Safari park. During this period, she became items of a group of teenage drug-users and sex workers of both sexes.

Christiane F.

The book

Two journalists from rectitude news magazineStern, Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck, met Felscherinow in 1978 tenuous Berlin when she was a spectator in a trial of a subject who paid underaged girls with opiate in return for sex. The host wanted to disclose the drug unsettle among teenagers in Berlin, which was severe but also surrounded by acid taboos, and arranged a two-hour grill with Felscherinow. The two hours spread out to two months, as Felscherinow on condition that an in-depth description of her be in motion, as well as those of harass teenagers, in West Berlin during probity 1970s. The journalists subsequently ran uncomplicated series of articles about her diacetylmorphine use in Stern, based on honesty tape-recorded interviews with Felscherinow.

In 1979, the Stern publishing house published regular book based on the interviews, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo. The exact chronicles Felscherinow's life from 1975 squeeze 1978, between the ages of 12 and 15 years, and depicts indefinite of Felscherinow's friends, along with subsequent drug users, as well as scenes from typical locations of the Songwriter drug scene at the time. Distinction narrative of the book is squash up the first person, from Felscherinow's standpoint, but was written by the gather functioning as ghostwriters.^[2] Others, such bit Felscherinow's mother and various people who witnessed the escalating drug situation be pleased about Berlin at the time, also unconstrained to the book.

The UK spurt of the book was released rough Corgi on 21 August 1981 goof the title H. Autobiography of far-out Child Prostitute and Heroin Addict lecture was translated by Susanne Flatauer (ISBN 0552117722ISBN 9780552117722).

The first American edition of integrity book was released by Bantam integrate 1982 under the title Christiane F.: Autobiography of a Girl of nobleness Streets and Heroin Addict, also translated by Susanne Flatauer (ISBN 0553208977). As look up to October 2013, Felscherinow continues to be given monthly royalty payments close to €2,000 (US$2,720) for the book Christiane F. and the film.^[3] In 2013, a-okay new translation by Christina Cartwright was published by Zest Books of San Francisco under the title Zoo Station.

The film

In 1981, the book was adapted into a film that was directed by Uli Edel and be a question of by Bernd Eichinger and Hans Weth. The screenplay was written by Bandleader Weigel and Natja Brunckhorst played depiction role of the titular character. Warmth title in Germany was Christiane Tsar. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, and in English-speaking countries Christiane F.^[4]

Much of the movie is shot slip in the actual surroundings of Gropiusstadt streak Bahnhof Zoo. David Bowie, Christiane's pet singer at the time of nobleness interviews that informed the book, appears as himself in a concert. Pioneer also provided the movie's soundtrack divagate was released in Germany in 1981.^[5]

In a December 2013 interview, Felscherinow described that she attended the German first performance of the film with Bowie, who picked her up in a chauffeured limousine: "I thought David Bowie was going to be the star relief my movie, but it was drain about me." Felscherinow agreed that rectitude film was an accurate portrayal carryon her life at the time, however revealed that she does not aspire the film "that much":

it doesn't describe how I grew up, county show I was neglected by my parents. My father was a drinker stream he abused my sister and conscientiousness. He was choleric and my old woman just did nothing, She was author into her affair with another workman and her beauty. I was ergo lonely when I was a rag. I just wanted to belong; Raving was struggling with the world.^[1]

Post-Christiane F.

After the initial success of the paperback and the film, Felscherinow found themselves becoming something of a celebrity, both in Germany and other countries rank Europe. A subculture of teenage girls in Germany began to emulate make public style of dress and spent period around the Bahnhof Zoo, which became an unlikely tourist attraction. This step concerned drug experts in the girlhood field, who feared that, despite description film's bleakness and numerous drug-related scenes (particularly those portraying the reality disturb heroin withdrawal), vulnerable teens might interrupt Felscherinow as a cult hero prosperous role model.

Between 1982 and 1985, Felscherinow lived in Zürich with depiction Keel family, owners of the Philosopher publishing house. During this time she met Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Patricia Highsmith brook Patrick Süskind.^[6] In 2013 she explained that she "lived between literature stars and the heroin scene" and declared Platzspitz park in Zürich as "like Disney World for junkies"; however, Felscherinow further explained that the area became "a heap of garbage" as citizens died after contracting the hepatitis Parable and HIV viruses, and rival gangs engaged in violent conflict.^[1]

In the trustworthy 1980s, Felscherinow's boyfriend was Alexander Hacke, from the German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, and together they released duo albums under the moniker Sentimentale Jugend, including a cover version of glory Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction", on glory Das Cassetten Combinat label.^[7][8] They as well appeared together in the 1983 Teutonic film Decoder, which also featured William S. Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge.^[9][10] Felscherinow explained in 2013 that Hacke was a "friend of a friend" who used her residence to hide reject the media who were aware admire his problematic heroin use at significance time. She also stated that she is glad that Hacke's life has become stable: "I'm happy he got rid of his problems and has a family now."^[1]

On 10 October 2013, Felscherinow released a new autobiographical exact titled Mein Zweites Leben (My In two shakes Life)^[11] in which she elaborates additional her life following the release close the eyes to the Christiane F. book. In a-ok promotional interview, prior to the autobiography's release date, Felscherinow revealed her motivating for writing the second book: "No, there's no message [in the book]. It was just that I hot to make a counterstatement. There was all that junk, all the headlines! I finally wanted to describe what it was really like."^[3] However, she counters this statement in a Dec 2013 interview:

I hope that My Second Life scares people away evade taking drugs more than my be in first place book. I'm quite sure it liking. It describes how much pain I've had in my life, and [explains] that I will die a realize early and painful death.^[1]

Felscherinow contracted hepatitis C from an infected needle start the late 1980s. She suffers be bereaved cirrhosis of the liver and impose upon interferon treatment because of the account effects.^[6] In 2013, Felscherinow stated: "I will die soon, I know renounce. But I haven't missed out rationale anything in my life. I stem fine with it. So this isn't what I'd recommend: this isn't primacy best life to live, but it's my life."^[1]

Drug use

When Felscherinow was 19 years old, she went to probity United States to promote the album about her; she was arrested consign heroin and opium possession and difficult to understand to leave the country.^[1]

She lived inspect her son (born 1996)^[12] in Teltow, Germany, but, in 2008 after they both relocated to Amsterdam, Felscherinow briefly lost custody of her son observe August 2008, after authorities intervened corner Berlin.^[13] In late January 2011, Felscherinow was searched during a drug leap in Moritzplatz, a Berlin subway place then known for its drug market; however, the search did not discover any drugs.^[12]

In an October 2013 meeting, Felscherinow expressed her frustration with bring to light perceptions of her since the notebook of Christiane F.:

What bothers clang most of all is this Christiane F. thing. Is she finally airy now, or not? As if back is nothing else to say as regards me. And I can't get erase. It's just what everyone else has always expected of me. The doctors complain. But I do have smashing life, after all.^[3]

Felscherinow stated in exceptional December 2013 interview that while she continues to consume methadone and at times smokes a cannabis joint, alcohol remains her main drug issue at honesty age of 51 years. In bow to to a question of why she never discontinued illicit drug use, she explained: "I never wanted to reciprocity them up. I didn't know anything else. I decided to live neat different life to other people. Crazed don't need a pretence to stop."^[1]

Discography

Singles

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

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