Christiane F.

Christiane Felscherinow was born on 20 May 1962 in Hamburg, Germany, but her family moved to West Berlin when she was a child. She became best known as Christiane F (though she has also used Christiane X as an alias) after publishing her autobiographical book Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo (1978) about her heroin addiction and the group of teenage drug-users and sex workers who operated in the area of West Berlin's then-largest railway station Bahnhof Zoo. Her life story became widely known when it was turned into a movie in 1981, with a soundtrack by David Bowie. Trying to capitalise on the movie's success, Christiane F released a couple of records shortly after. In the early 1980s, Felscherinow's boyfriend was Alexander Hacke, from the German industrial band [a38794], and she collaborated in his Sentimentale Jugend project. They also appeared together in the 1983 German film Decoder, which also featured William S. Burroughs and [a22533]. In 2013, Felscherinow published a second autobiographical book titled Mein Zweites Leben in which she writes about the second part of her life after the aforementioned episodes.