Charlotte Roche
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Charlotte Roche during a reading in Berlin, 2007
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| Born |
18 March 1978 High Wycombe, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Eric Pfeil Martin Keß (2007–present) |
| Children | daughter Polly (2002) with Eric Pfeil |
Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche (born 18 March 1978 in High Wycombe, England) is a British television presenter, producer, actress and author living in Germany. She is best known for her novel Wetlands.
Roche, the daughter of an engineer and a politically and artistically active mother was born in London and raised in Germany. In 1983, when Roche was five years old, Roche's parents divorced, an event and experience that Roche later incorporated in her novels Feuchtgebiete (English: Wetlands) and Schoßgebete (English: Wrecked). She grew up in the Lower Rhine region, in a family with liberal views. Her primary school was in Niederkrüchten. In 1989 she went to the secondary school, St. Wolfhelm Gymnasium, in the neighbouring town of Schwalmtal. When she was 14 years old she moved to Mönchengladbach, where she was educated at the Hugo Junkers Gymnasium in Rheydt. She left school after the 11th grade, at the age of 17. She obtained initial stage experience in drama groups during her time at school.
Roche left home in 1993, still aged 17, and formed the garage rock group The Dubinskis with three female friends. The band never released an album, nor recorded any material, nor notably performed anywhere. There followed a period where she undertook anything that would shock and offend people – self-mutilation to paint with blood, drug experiments, or shaving her head. After successfully auditioning for the German music channel Viva, she worked there for several years as a video jockey and presenter, as well on the sister channel Viva Zwei, where she presented her show Fast Forward.
Roche has a daughter, Polly, born in 2002, whose father Eric Pfeil was the producer and writer of Roche's programme Fast Forward and Der Kindergeburtstag ist vorbei! (The child's birthday party is over). Since 2007, Roche has been married to Martin Keß, co-founder of Brainpool, a media company in Cologne.
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