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Article: Obituary: Beate Uhse
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2001
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BEATE UHSE had a highly successful career as an entrepreneur in
the German and European sex industry, spanning nearly 50 years.
Her success reflected the changing times in which she lived and
her work helped to change attitudes in German society. She is
credited with taking sex products from the back street to the high
street. Yet her origins and her early ambitions lay in an entirely
different direction. Uhse was one of those remarkable women who grew
up in the inter-war period and became fascinated by aviation.
Born Beate Kostlin in 1919, the daughter of an East Prussian
landowner and his medical practitioner wife, she gained her pilot's
licence at the age of 17. Inspired by Amy Johnson ...