"We believed in fabulous fairy tales, and so fairy tales are what we experienced." "I wanted everything from this world. I wanted to experience it all and to live in the here and now." Uschi Obermaier was the erotic symbol of the counterculture, the pop icon of the sixties and seventies, a model, film star, groupie, and lover - yet never let herself be pigeonholed or stereotyped. Her life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll was like a road movie: dynamic, wild, at dizzying velocity, and completely freed from all bourgeois values. ...
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"We believed in fabulous fairy tales, and so fairy tales are what we experienced." "I wanted everything from this world. I wanted to experience it all and to live in the here and now." Uschi Obermaier was the erotic symbol of the counterculture, the pop icon of the sixties and seventies, a model, film star, groupie, and lover - yet never let herself be pigeonholed or stereotyped. Her life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll was like a road movie: dynamic, wild, at dizzying velocity, and completely freed from all bourgeois values. "I would betray any revolution for this woman," said Rainer Langhans, at whose side she posed unclad for Kommune 1. Turning her back on the politically ineffectual revolutionaries, she set off to do her own thing, to search for fun times and the ultimate kick. Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards - Uschi was craved by many. When something was going on she was always there, right in the middle. Finally she fell into undying love with Dieter Bockhorn, the "Prince of Kiez," and travelled with him in his RV through the world. Uschi Obermaier has told her story to Olaf Kraemer: all of it and how it really was, unsanitised. Here is the rollicking biography of a woman whose motto still has the sex appeal now as it did then: "Don't dream your life. Live your dreams."
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