Andrea Mohr

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Andrea Mohr at her reading This is not a striptease

Andrea Christine Lucia Mohr (born July 19, 1963 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German writer who writes in German and English. She was previously a drug smuggler and involved in some international criminal activities. From 1999 to 2004 she was held at the Dame Phyllis Frost Center in Melbourne , the maximum security prison for women in Australia .

Life

Before imprisonment

She attended primary school in Neustadt from 1969 to 1973, then the Leibniz Gymnasium in Neustadt . After graduating from high school in 1982, she attended the Inlingua evening school in Mannheim from 1983 to 1984 as a foreign language correspondent for English . From 1984 to 1985 he studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and from 1985 to 1989 he studied Japanese and American studies at the Free University of Berlin .

In Tokyo , Los Angeles and Kyoto she had worked as a photo model and hostess , in Berlin as a striptease dancer in cabarets . She lived in Berlin from 1986 to 1996 and from then in Melbourne until she was expelled in 2004.

Imprisonment

She pleaded guilty to complicit in the import of 5.5 kilograms of cocaine by her ex-husband Werner Roberts; other co-defendants were the well-known Melbourne attorney Andrew Fraser and Carl Urbanec, her long-time German friend. Andrea Mohr was sentenced to a maximum of eight years, with a minimum of five years, then deported back to Germany. Werner Roberts received ten to 13 years, Carl Urbanec six to nine years and Andrew Fraser five to seven years. In fact, to have been innocent Andrew Fraser, still a prison sentence was serving five years. Some corrupt police officers were also involved in the case, who were later tried or convicted themselves, but for other offenses.

Andrea Mohr spent her entire sentence in the maximum security prison as she was involved in a high profile case and in international crimes. During her prison time, she completed a correspondence course at Swinburne University of Technology , Melbourne, from 2001 to 2004 , in the subjects of journalism and creative writing .

After prison

She is a volunteer member of Amnesty International and Neustadt against Xenophobia .

Works

  • As fee work for Umschau Buchverlag , she wrote the following published books: A culinary journey of discovery through Lower Austria , A wine journey through the Palatinate , trends and lifestyle in Berlin .
  • Her autobiography Pixie was published by Hardie Grant Books in 2009 and is largely about her time in prison, drugs , the underworld , gangsters and Melbourne police corruption. Howard Marks wrote a comment for the book cover. In 2011 Pixie was published in German by VGS von Egmont .
  • She wrote 22 short stories that were grouped together in a collection called Blood Red .
  • Her second book Madame Chérie was published in October 2012 by Gonzo Verlag in German.

She is currently presenting show and multimedia readings under the title This is not a striptease , in which she talks about her time in prison and her illegal life before that. Since her second book, she has been performing a multimedia show called Dating Madame Chérie .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New drug squad corruption allegations theage.com.au
  2. www.andreamohr.de
  3. Pixie. From the drug jet set to the women's gym. My life website of the publisher