13 Facts About Uschi Obermaier

Ursula "Uschi" Obermaier is a former fashion model and actress associated with the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany.

Uschi Obermaier was born in Sendling, a suburb of Munich, Germany.

Uschi Obermaier's started an apprenticeship as a photo-restorer but gave it up to become a model.

Uschi Obermaier's went on to work for other magazines and top photographers such as Helmut Newton.

Uschi Obermaier's met communard Rainer Langhans at a concert at the end of 1968 and she soon moved from Munich to the Berlin-based Kommune 1 after Langhans became her boyfriend.

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Kommune 1 was the first politically motivated commune in Germany, and Uschi Obermaier's name is most intimately connected with the 1960s student rebellions in the minds of many Germans.

In 1973, Uschi Obermaier fell in love with Dieter Bockhorn, the wealthy owner of a club in Hamburg's Reeperbahn red-light district.

Uschi Obermaier went on The Rolling Stones' Tour of the Americas '75 and is said to have had affairs with both Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, as well as with Jimi Hendrix – a visitor to Kommune 1 – with whom she can be seen kissing and cuddling farewell outside the West Berlin hotel Kempinski in the movie Last Experience.

Uschi Obermaier said in an interview in 2006 that reports that she and Bockhorn had a traditional wedding in every country they traveled in were untrue.

Uschi Obermaier played alongside Iris Berben in Rudolf Thome's Detectives .

Uschi Obermaier's played a small role alongside Rainer Langhans in Haytabo, and portrayed Marlene in the film adaptation of the novel Blutrausch.

Uschi Obermaier's played maracas in the band Amon Duul I, on two albums: Collapsing, and Disaster .

Uschi Obermaier's lived in Topanga Canyon near Los Angeles, and works as a jewellery designer.