Romy Haag - Eine Frau und mehr

1999, German, Romy Haag,

Original title: "Eine Frau und mehr" (A woman and more) by Romy Haag.

A life like a dream: The little boy from the Dutch provinces is making a career in the world's metropolises – as a woman. The shy Edouard Frans becomes Romy Haag, the star. At thirteen she stripped on the Reeperbahn, at sixteen she sang in the Paris nightclub »Alcazar«.

After stops on stages all over Europe and in New York, the dazzling show star found a home in Berlin in the seventies. Her legendary nightclub »Chez Romy Haag« became an in-meeting place for pop stars such as David Bowie, Freddy Mercury, Mick Jagger and Udo Lindenberg.

As a singer, and as an actress, she fascinates her audiences today. But Romy Haag doesn't just remember her show career. She openly and honestly dispels clichés about herself and her life as a transsexual. Her success in a society that rarely gives outsiders more than a niche place is also the story of a fight against intolerance and prejudice.

Romy Haag was born in The Hague in 1951 as the son of a painter and a butcher's daughter. In Paris in the sixties, she began her successful career as a show star. The versatile entertainer travelled around the world as a singer and dancer, founded a rock band, shone in numerous roles in film and television and became a Berlin institution with her nightclub »Chez Romy Haag« in the mid-seventies. Romy Haag lives in Berlin. Martin Schacht has known Romy Haag since the early eighties. He is a freelance author and lives in Berlin. Romy Haag acted in 26 films, including Plastikfieber, The Case of Mr. Spalt, The Hamburg Syndrome and Mascara with Charlotte Rampling and released 17 albums.

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