Die Schulmädchen vom Treffpunkt Zoo (1978)
By James Bontemps
“16 year old school student Petra (Katja Bienert) is madly in love with her classmate Mick (Marco Kröger) – but Mick is addicted to heroin and would do anything to get a shot. Petra knows that, and since she’s so in love with Mick, she supplies him with the drug.”
Katja Bienert was only 11 when the film was shot in 1978, but she looks like a 16 year old with her well developed body.
Katja explains how she got the part of Petra:
“My mother Evelyn, who did my management, arranged a meeting with production-assistant Otto Retzer in the Kempinski in Berlin: The famous producer Carl Spiehs was hiding behind a newspaper taking a glance at me and decided without casting to give me the part of Petra. When we where shooting in the summer of 1978 I was 11 years old, looking like a sixteen-year-old – which made the harmless nude scenes delicate.
As I looked like a grown-up already at the age of eleven, taking off my clothes was like a freeing therapy: I was full of complexes over my voluptuous body … but was prepared, because I’ had already been posing for photographers Lutz “Lucky” Stark and Jim Rakete, and I could see that men were somehow attracted to me – so it was all about flirting, feeling sexy and attractive.”
“Filming on the set of Die Schulmädchen vom Treffpunkt Zoo was quite uncomfortable, because in the most intimate moments you are surrounded by the crew. If you’d already worked together for some weeks, it’s less difficult to ignore them. It will get more difficult if you’re only able to undress and get stimulated when a film crew is around you.”