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Uschi Obermaier (September 24 1946 in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, a.k.a. Chrissi Malberg) is a former fashion model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
, actress and one of the protagonists of the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. In the latter she is considered an iconic sex symbol
Sex symbol

A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, Supermodel, teen idol, or sports star who is found to be sexual attraction by the public or by a substantial niche audience....
 of the so-called "1968 generation".


i Obermaier was discovered by the magazine twen. Thin and petite but feminine she represented a new type of model and exposed frontal nudity for the first time on a magazine cover.

In Munich, Obermaier was briefly involved with Pamir
Pamir (ship)

Pamir was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the Germany shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949....
 survivor Othello (a.k.a.






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Uschi Obermaier (September 24 1946 in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
, a.k.a. Chrissi Malberg) is a former fashion model
Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who poses or who is displayed for the purpose of art, fashion, or other product s and advertising....
, actress and one of the protagonists of the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. In the latter she is considered an iconic sex symbol
Sex symbol

A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, Supermodel, teen idol, or sports star who is found to be sexual attraction by the public or by a substantial niche audience....
 of the so-called "1968 generation".


Obermaier and the Kommune 1

Uschi Obermaier was discovered by the magazine twen. Thin and petite but feminine she represented a new type of model and exposed frontal nudity for the first time on a magazine cover.

In Munich, Obermaier was briefly involved with Pamir
Pamir (ship)

Pamir was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the Germany shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949....
 survivor Othello (a.k.a. Rudolf Liebzeit). Obermaier moved from Munich to the Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
-based Kommune 1
Kommune 1

Kommune 1 or K1 was the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. It was created on January 12, 1967, in West Berlin and finally dissolved in November 1969....
 after she had become Rainer Langhans' girlfriend. Langhans and Obermaier talked openly to the media about their relationship, becoming symbols of the sexual revolution
Sexual revolution

The sexual revolution encompasses the well-documented changes in social thought and codes of behaviour related to sexuality throughout the Western world that continues to evolve....
. Some commentators in Germany claim that John Lennon
John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
 and Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono

, born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
, among others, followed their example.

Obermaier was not viewed by most in the Ausserparlamentarische Opposition
Ausserparlamentarische Opposition

The Au?erparlamentarische Opposition , was a politics of Germany protest movement active in West Germany during the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s, forming a central part of the German student movement....
 as one of their activists. She did not take part in radical feminist campaigns like other female members and friends of the Kommune 1
Kommune 1

Kommune 1 or K1 was the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. It was created on January 12, 1967, in West Berlin and finally dissolved in November 1969....
. She was best known for appearances in German magazines such as Stern
Stern (magazine)

Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann....
, in which she appeared openly nude and using marijuana.

Rainer Langhans mentions in his autobiography that he and Uschi Obermaier met Peter Green
Peter Green (musician)

Peter Green is a United Kingdom blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B....
 in Munich, where they invited him to their "High-Fish-Commune". They were not really interested in Peter Green. They just wanted to get in contact with Mick Taylor
Mick Taylor

Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor and another performance from the Old Grey Whistle Test seem to be the only material available from this brief collaboration....
: Langhans and Obermaier wished to organize a "Bavarian Woodstock". They wanted Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
 and "The Rolling Stones" to be the leading acts of their Bavarian open air festival. They needed the "Green God" just to get in contact with "The Rolling Stones" via Mick Taylor.

Obermaier probably was the best known German groupie of the 1960s. She was briefly a member of the Krautrock
Krautrock

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain....
-band Amon Düül
Amon Düül

Amon D??l was a Germany political art commune formed out of the student movement of the 1960s which became well-known for its free form musical improvisations....
, and is said to have had affairs with Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
, Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
 and Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
.

Films

Obermaier had featured roles in several films. In "Detektive" (1968, directed by Rudolf Thome) she played alongside Iris Berben
Iris Berben

Iris Berben is a Germany actor....
. She was the main protagonist of the movie (1969). . Together with Rainer Langhans, she had a small role in the movie Haytabo.

Music


  • Obermaier’s photo is featured on the cover of the 12-inch single
    12-inch single

    The 12-inch single gramophone record came into existence with the advent of disco music in the 1970s. The first 12" single was actually a 10" acetate used by a mix engineer in need of a Friday night test copy for famed disco mixer Tom Moulton....
     “These Days” by Xu Xu Fang, (released in 2007 by Vacancy Records).
  • She played maraca
    Maraca

    Maracas is a native instrument of Puerto Rico. They are simple percussion instruments , usually played in pairs, consisting of a dried calabash or gourd shell or coconut shell filled with seeds or dried beans....
    s in the Krautrock
    Krautrock

    Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain....
     band Amon Düül
    Amon Düül

    Amon D??l was a Germany political art commune formed out of the student movement of the 1960s which became well-known for its free form musical improvisations....
     on two albums: Collapsing (1970, released by Metronome) and Disaster (1972, released by BASF
    BASF

    BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest chemical company in the world. BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik ....
    ).


Life after the Kommune 1

In 1973, Uschi Obermaier fell in love with Dieter Bockhorn, the wealthy owner of a club in Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
's Reeperbahn
Reeperbahn

|-||-||-||-||-||}The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district....
 red-light district. Together, they traveled the world in a customized bus, first spending three years in Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, then going to Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 and the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 for another three years. In an Interview (Galore, Issue25) Obermaier marked reports that she and Bockhorn had a traditional wedding in every country they traveled in as completely fictitious. They only married once, in India. After ten years their relationship ended abruptly. On New Year's Eve 1983, Dieter Bockhorn died in a motorcycle accident in Mexico.

By then, Uschi Obermaier had been granted American citizenship. Today, she lives in Topanga Canyon near Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, working as a jewellery designer.

Her life has been depicted in a biopic called Eight Miles High (in German "Das wilde Leben"). The controversial movie was directed by Achim Bornhak and was released in February 2007. It is based on the bestselling book High Times, an authorized biography of Obermaiers life, written by Olaf Kraemer, who also wrote the screenplay to Eight Miles High. The book went to number 3 on the bestseller list and stayed there for five months. The movie was reclassified by distributors from PG 16 to PG 12 and made number 10 at the box office. The movie stars Natalia Avelon
Natalia Avelon

Natalia Avelon is a Poland-Germany actress and singer. Born in Wroclaw,Silesia, Poland as Natalia Siwek, Avelon and her family moved to Ettlingen, Germany in 1988 when she was still a child....
 as Uschi Obermaier, Matthias Schweighöfer
Matthias Schweighöfer

Matthias Schweigh?fer is a Germany actor. He is sometimes credited as Matthias Schweighofer...
 as Rainer Langhans, Victor Norén
Victor Norén

Victor Nor?n is a Swedish singer and songwriter for the pop-rock band Sugarplum Fairy .He was born on September 19 1985 in Borl?nge and is the youngest of the 3 Nor?n brothers....
 (singer of the Swedish band Sugarplum Fairy
Sugarplum Fairy

Sugarplum Fairy are a pop-rock band from Borl?nge, Sweden. The members took the name from a version of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" where John Lennon counts the song in by saying "sugar-plum-fairy, sugar-plum-fairy"....
) as Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an England rock musician best known as the lead vocalist of the The Rolling Stones. As well as a songwriter, he is an actor, and record producer and film producer....
, Alexander Scheer as Keith Richards
Keith Richards

Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
 and David Scheller as Dieter Bockhorn.

Literature

  • Uschi Obermaier: Das wilde Leben, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-455-08603-9
  • Olaf Kraemer, Uschi Obermaier: High Times - Mein wildes Leben(Biography), Heyne Verlag, München 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-13010-4


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