Christiane Schmidtmer
| Christiane Schmidtmer | |
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| Born |
24 December 1939 Mannheim, Germany |
| Died | 13 March 2003 (aged 63) Heidelberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1963–1981 |
Christiane Schmidtmer (24 December 1939 – 13 March 2003) was a German actress, fashion model, nude model and memoirist.
Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany to Gertrud and Jakob Schmidtmer on Christmas Eve 1939. Her father worked for the Western governments and disappeared in Russia during the war. The family later relocated from Mannheim to nearby Heidelberg after her mother remarried.
At the age of seventeen her mother sent her to London where Christiane attended St Giles school to learn English. During her stay in England, she met a powerful man of British royalty who offered to send her to the Royal Academy of Arts if – in return – she would sleep with him. She packed her bags and left for Germany the same night. After returning to Heidelberg, she attended the local Hölderlin-Gymnasium (academic high school) from which she graduated during the late 1950s.
In 1959 against strong family opposition – her mother wanted her to follow a career in medicine – Christiane Schmidtmer moved to Munich where she began taking acting lessons. During that time she performed in afternoon stage productions for children.
Schmidtmer worked onstage in Germany from 1961–63, then turned to photographic modelling for German fashion and nude magazines and later, Playboy in the USA. She modelled for advertising companies, namely Max Factor Cosmetics, before she started her movie career. She was hired as their featured model and introduced at the New York World's Fair in 1964 followed by an American tour with visits to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Chicago.
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