Christiane Felscherinow

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Vera Christiane Felscherinow (born May 20, 1962 in Hamburg ) became known in the late 1970s as a drug addict youngster Christiane F. through the book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo . Due to the wide distribution of the book and the successful filming , she became a symbol of a youth culture of the 1970s and 1980s that was influenced by drugs . In the early 1980s she lived in an artist flat on Hamburg's Reeperbahn and was active as a musician and actress, but was commercially unsuccessful. In 2013 she published her autobiography Christiane F. - My Second Life .

Life

Christiane Felscherinow grew up in a family that was shaped by her father's alcoholism . When she was six years old, the family moved to West Berlin in a high-rise building in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln . Even after their parents divorced, their social situation only improved to a limited extent. She started using drugs at the age of twelve. At the age of 14 she was addicted to heroin and prostituted herself on the children's street on Kurfürstenstrasse and at the Bahnhof Zoo . Her mother noticed her daughter's double life after two years.

In 1978 Felscherinow testified as a witness in a trial. The two Stern reporters Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck became aware of her and asked her to talk to them about the drug scene. After two months of research, this resulted in the book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo ( number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from 1979 to 1981 ), an autobiographical work through which the public for the first time something about the everyday life of the drug scene and the vicious circle of personal needs and Learned about drug addiction. The book was filmed in 1981 by the director Uli Edel under the title Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo with Natja Brunckhorst in the leading role.

Between 1981 and 1983 Felscherinow tried with the support of her then partner Alexander Hacke to start a career as a singer and film actress, sometimes under the name "Christiane F.", sometimes under the stage name "Christiana". With Hacke she appeared as a music duo under the name Sentimentale Jugend , including at the Festival Genialer Dilletanten in September 1981 in Berlin. In 1982 she took up a few records in the style of the Neue Deutsche Welle as a solo singer . She played leading roles in the films Neonstadt (1981, alongside Charles Brauer , Barbara Freier , Lisa Kreuzer , Michaela May , Billie Zöckler ) and Decoder (1983). In the fall of 1983 she took part in a promotional tour for the film Christiane F. - We Children from Zoo Station through the USA. It was the first time that she revealed her full name. In the radio show of the well-known presenter Rodney Bingenheimer, she had a music cassette with the song 99 Luftballons by Nena with her. When he played the German-language song, it sparked high demand from numerous listeners, whereupon other radio stations began to play it as well. So it got on the American charts before Nena's record company Columbia Records could even react.

Felscherinow lived in Greece from 1987 to 1993. She later lived with her son (* 1996) in Teltow and Berlin. Christiane Felscherinow first presented her non-fiction book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo to her son when he was twelve years old, but it took two more years before the son picked up the book out of his own interest. From time to time Felscherinow went public with press interviews.

After a stay in Amsterdam she returned to Berlin. According to several media reports, she has since relapsed. In 2008 the youth welfare office took her son into custody and she lost custody, which she got back in 2010. However, she did not bring her son back to her home.

On October 10, 2013, her autobiography Christiane F. - My Second Life , was published in paperback. A "fan edition" of the book, which could be purchased 10 days earlier and only online from Deutscher Levante Verlag GmbH, Berlin, contains additional drawings, images and video messages accessible via QR codes. The Christiane F Foundation, founded by the author and the publisher, is to be funded from part of the proceeds, which is intended to support children of substance-dependent parents and to raise awareness of the matter. With regard to her financial situation, Christiane Felscherinow explained in November 2013 in the n24 television show Germany akut : “I am definitely rich in the sense that I don't have to think about whether I might be today when I'm at the meat counter no fillet can afford. There is no such thing. At least I can go shopping without looking, today I only have ten euros. Most of my friends all have to do the math, I'm actually the only one who still has a little money. I've only spent all of my money on my personal life. I don't own a house, I don't have a car. The insurance, all the fuel, I eat it up every month or I go dancing. "

In January 2014, Felscherinow announced her preliminary withdrawal from the public on her blog. The main reason is her poor health and an online petition demanding the dismissal of TV presenter Markus Lanz after he repeatedly interrupted politician Sahra Wagenknecht on a talk show: "I'm very afraid that anonymous critics will judge me and try me on the internet. "

Discography

  • Wunderbar / Death catches up with me (single, with Alexander Hacke from Einstürzende Neubauten , 1982, Posh Boy Records / USA) song on youtube
  • Health (EP, 1982, Posh Boy Records / USA)
  • CHRISTIANA - Final Church (Maxi-Single, 1982, Supermax Schallplatten / West Germany)
  • Wunderbar - Health Dub (Maxi-Single, 2003, Playhouse Records / Germany)

Filmography and media documentations

  • Neonstadt (1981/82), directed by Wolfgang Büld
  • Decoder (1983/84), directed by Muscha
  • Christiane F. (Documentary Radio Bremen 1983)
  • Christiane F. (Documentary Spiegel TV 1996)
  • The Great Downfall Show - Festival Genialer Dilletanten - Berlin Tempodrom, September 4th 1981 . Vinyl on Demand Friedrichshafen 2005 (media combination, consisting of DVD, CD, 2 LP)
  • Berlin Super 80. Music & Film Underground West Berlin 1978–1984, feat. music by Malaria, Christiane F., Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten and others. Concept & Realization Toni Schifer, Rolf S. Wolkenstein. Monitorpop Entertainment, Berlin 2005. (Media combination, consisting of DVD, audio CD and book.)
  • Back in the drug milieu: the story of Christiane F. ( Spiegel TV Magazin, 2008 )
  • 2015: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979–1989 . Documentation with Mark Reeder , directed by Jörg A. Hoppe , Klaus Maeck , Heiko Lange and Alexander von Sturmfeder, 92 min

Book adaptation

Publications

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 99 Balloons and the Chaos of Emotions . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1984, pp. 218-226 ( online ).
  2. ^ N24 broadcast Germany acute . TV broadcast, November 27, 2013; Moderator Claus Strunz , on the subject of "After we children from the Zoo station", other participants in the discussion: social worker Christian Hennis and journalist Sonja Vukovic. Discussion on the occasion of the publication of the autobiography "My second life" (Deutscher Levante Verlag) by Christiane Felscherinow. Produced by Schmidt Media OHG, Nierstein .
  3. ↑ Newer interviews:
  4. ^ Drug problems: Christiane F. back in the drug swamp. In: Spiegel Online . August 9, 2008, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Birgit Bürkner: Christiane F. - new drug crash. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 11, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2018 . Drug addiction: Christiane F. can no longer look after her son. In: Spiegel Online . August 11, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Katja Mitic-Pigorsch: Why Christiane F. did not escape addiction. In: Welt Online . September 26, 2013, accessed January 15, 2014 .
  7. ^ Foundation: Christiane F .: My second life. In: christiane-f.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Book: Christiane F .: My second life. In: christiane-f.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  9. ^ N24 broadcast Germany acute . TV broadcast, November 27, 2013; Moderator Claus Strunz , on the subject of "After we children from the Zoo station", other participants in the discussion: social worker Christian Hennis and journalist Sonja Vukovic. Discussion on the occasion of the publication of the autobiography "My second life" (Deutscher Levante Verlag) by Christiane Felscherinow. Produced by Schmidt Media OHG, Nierstein .
  10. ^ Withdrawal from the public: Christiane F. fears the Lanz effect. In: Spiegel Online. January 30, 2014, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Nada Weigelt: 40 years after “We children from Zoo Station”: What became of Christiane F.? In: t-online.de . September 27, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Christiane Felscherinow: I say goodbye! In: christiane-f.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on September 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Felscherinow, Christiane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES F., Christiane; Felscherinow, Vera Christiane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg