“Christiane F.,” the 1981 cult classic nightmare vision of a teen girl’s descent into heroin addiction in West Berlin, makes even “The Panic in Needle Park” look like a walk in the, well, you know.

A generation ago, German readers were shocked and fascinated by the story of a 13-year-old girl shooting up heroin and working as a child prostitute on the gritty streets of 1970s West Berlin. The ...

Immortalized in a cult book and film more than 30 years ago, Christiane F. is Germany's most famous heroin addict. Now 51, she still uses drugs and has written a new book about her troubled life.

Christiane F., trans. from the German by Christina Cartwright. Zest (HMH, dist.), $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-936976-22-5 A powerful memoir first published 35 years ago in Germany (a U.S.

I remember first finding a DVD of Christiane F. in Fopp in St. Andrews when I was about fourteen, and because the label covered the last two letters of the title, I thought, "A film with my name in it ...

With the series "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo," Amazon Prime revisits the bestselling biographic novel and movie based on a teenager's story of addiction. In the late 1970s and early 80s, the harrowing ...

Director Uli Edel, Screenplay Herman Weigel, Uli Edel, Based on the novel "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" Cinematography Justus Pankau, Jürgen Jürges, Cast Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Jens Kuphal ...

Christiane Felscherinow wouldn’t recognise any more the area around Berlin’s Zoo Station. The vacant, scrubby site opposite is now a Waldorf Astoria hotel; the adjacent neon-lit arcade of kebab shops ...

Uli Edel worked with first-time actors and real drug users for this still-shocking 1981 portrait of a young addict's descent in West Berlin. It plays New York and Los Angeles in June. “Christiane F.,” ...