Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F.

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Das klassische Buch in der Schule. Das Buch, dass dich mit dem Thema Drogen aufklären soll. Ja sicher. Gut geschrieben. Sicher so geschrieben dass man danach sagt: Drogen sind nicht gut. A quei tempi fece parecchia presa sulla me adolescente, dandomi la giusta dose di timore, tanto che ripetevo in loop nella mia mente, che mai e poi mai avrei ceduto al richiamo delle droghe; oggi rileggendo qualche pagina, prima di passarlo a mia figlia, mi ha suscitato ansia, quell'ansia da genitrice che teme le amicizie sbagliate, teme il senso di insoddisfazione perenne dei ragazzi di oggi e che potrebbero essere tentati. This book is a literal masterpiece. I watched the movie ‘Christiane F.’ Which heavily influenced me to read the book to understand her story on a deeper level. The movie genuinely did not do this book justice. Don’t get me wrong; the movie is FANTASTIC, but there were so many things that were stated in the book that were never brought up in the film. I can honestly say that the book was a million times better than the film. You see so much more depth between the mother and Christiane in the book rather than the film. In the film, when the mother finds out about her heroin addiction; she is never shown or really spoken of again. Yet in the book, the mother tries over and over to help her daughter.

When she was 12 years old, she began smoking hashish with a group of friends who were slightly older at a local youth club. They gradually began using stronger drugs such as LSD and various forms of pills and she ended up using heroin. By the time she was 14, she was heroin-dependent and a prostitute, mainly at West Berlin's then-largest railway station Bahnhof Zoo. During this period, she became part of a group of teenage drug-users and sex workers of both sexes. Atze’s death completely obliterated an impossible dream that we all shared: the dream of the cool junkie, who’s able to handle his heroin. Instead, everyone in Atze’s old crowd began to fear and mistrust each other. Before, when there weren’t enough needles to go around and we were shooting up, everybody wanted to be first. Now all of a sudden, everybody wanted to be second. Nobody talked about how scared they were, but everyone was worried that the stuff would be too pure, too strong, or that it would be cut with strychnine or some other poison. You could die from an overdose, but you could also die from shit that was too pure or too dirty. Il dramma dì Christiane F. è diventato in Germania un caso esemplare (è entrato addirittura nelle antologie scolastiche): un testo discusso da medici, insegnanti, operatori sociali, e che ha coinvolto profondamente anche il grande pubblico attraverso le immagini del film che ne è stato tratto. When I hit the scene the next afternoon, no one was grieving for Atze. It makes sense: nobody cries on the street. But on the other hand some people were definitely pretty pissed at Atze. He’d ratted on good dealers who sold first-class junk, and now they were all sitting in jail. Also, Atze still owed a lot of people a lot of money. Christiane F. di anni ne aveva dodici quando iniziò a fumare l’hascisc, la sua discesa nel mondo della droga fu tanto rapida quanto devastante. Ho voluto precisare che il libro non è scritto da lei, perché sia più comprensibile il modo in cui è tradotto. La prosa è chiara, non è quella di una tredicenne, salvo per l’uso di alcuni termini in slang e per la parziale abolizione del congiuntivo. Sapendo che si tratta di una sbobinatura, non sorprenderanno i capitoli dedicati al punto di vista della madre e di alcuni operatori coinvolti nella vicenda.Felscherinow contracted hepatitis C from an infected needle in the late 1980s. She suffers from cirrhosis of the liver and rejects interferon treatment because of the side effects. [7] In 2013, Felscherinow stated: "I will die soon, I know that. But I haven't missed out on anything in my life. I am fine with it. So this isn't what I'd recommend: this isn't the best life to live, but it's my life." [2] Drug use [ edit ] Mir schnürts immer noch den Hals zu und es macht mich alles immer noch so wahnsinnig nachdenklich und traurig.

bin ich durch meine Schulzeit gekommen ohne jemals Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo gelesen zu haben und ehrlich gesagt bin ich im Nachhinein sehr dankbar dafür, denn ich bezweifele stark, dass ich es damals zu Ende gelesen hätte.What you find here has been done sitting at a desk, in a small town on the shores of a lake, forty years later after the publication of the book. Very far indeed, both in time and in space, from the facts and places narrated.

At first all I could think was: "shit." My throat was dry and I felt like I was going to puke. I couldn’t understand how Atze could have overdosed. Atze, of all people—the popular guy, who knew exactly how to handle his heroin. I didn’t want to let my mom see how upset it all made me. She had no idea that I was using again. So I took the paper and went to my room. Vera Christiane Felscherinow [1] (born 20 May 1962) is a German actress and musician who is best known for her contribution to the 1978 autobiographical book Christiane F. (original title: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo), and the film and television miniseries based on the book, in which her teenage drug use is documented. When Felscherinow was 19 years old, she went to the United States to promote the film about her; she was arrested for heroin and opium possession and had to leave the country. [2] I understand the narrator’s point that it certainly felt like kids were viewed as the problem, even though they were the victims and just looking for a place to belong. Alcuni libri li identifico con i colori e, per me, questo libro è sempre stato grigio. Grigio come il cielo di Berlino di quegli anni, grigio come i palazzi e la stazione che fanno da sfondo alla storia, dove i quattordicenni degli anni 70 si prostituivano per una dose d'eroina, grigio come la pelle di quei ragazzi che si buttavano via per pochi attimi di sballo.Space. The quotes are scattered throughout the map of Germany, each one in the (more or less) precise location where the places mentioned are/were or where the event took place.