Christiane F. (Book order)

Christiane F. Book order

Christiane F.

May 20, 1962

Christiane F., full name Vera Christiane Felscherinow is a German writer, singer and also a central character in my own book, My Children, from the ZOO station and later the film of the same name. With the book's wide spread and successful film treatment, it became a symbolic figure in the youth culture of the 1970s and 1980s, which was influenced by drugs. In the early 1980s, she lived in a shared apartment for artists on Hamburg's Reeperbahn and was active as a musician and actress, but remained commercially unsuccessful. In 2013, she published her autobiography, Christiane F. - My second life.

Zoo Station

366 pages
13 hours of reading

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In 1978 Christiane F. testified against a man who had traded heroin for sex with teenage girls at Berlin’s notorious Zoo Station. In the course of that trial, Christiane F. became connected with two journalists, and over time they helped to turn her story - which begins with a dysfunctional but otherwise fairly normal childhood - into an acclaimed bestseller. Christiane F.’s rapid descent into heroin abuse and prostitution is shocking, but the boredom, the longing for acceptance, the thrilling risks, and even the musical obsessions that fill out the rest of Christiane’s existence will be familiar to every reader. Christiane F.’s Berlin is a strange and often terrifying place, but it’s also a place that remains closer than we might think….