The 15-year-old working-class-girl was picked out of 700 competitors to play the part of the chillingly beauty in Teenage Wolfpack at the side of Horst Buchholz. After countless movies, four marriages und some alcohol episodes, nowadays Karin Baal lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg. She is one of the most distinctive German actresses and still shoots one or two movies a year. Many times journalists knocked at her door to acquire the rights for her biography. She always declined. Now she turned seventy – and thinks it might be about time to recount her life.