Editing Astrid Kirchherr (section)

==The Beatles==
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Kirchherr, Voormann and Vollmer were friends who had all attended the Meisterschule, and shared the same ideas about fashion, culture and music. Voormann became Astrid's boyfriend, and moved into the Kirchherr home, where he had his own room.<ref name="AstridKirchherrbiogPiczo"/> In 1960, after Kirchherr and Vollmer had had an argument with Voormann, he wandered down the [[Reeperbahn]] (in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg) and heard music coming from the [[Kaiserkeller]] club. Voormann walked in and watched a performance by a group called the Beatles: Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Sutcliffe and Best, their drummer at the time.<ref name="KlausVoormannBiographycom">{{cite web|url=http://www.voormann.com/biography |title=Klaus Voormann Biography |publisher=Klaus Voormann |access-date=30 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717231704/http://www.voormann.com/biography |archive-date=17 July 2011 }}</ref> Voormann asked Kirchherr and Vollmer to listen to this new music, and after being persuaded to visit the Kaiserkeller (which was in the rough area of the Reeperbahn),<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid">{{cite web |title=''Fresh Air'' interview with Astrid Kirchherr (15 January 2008) |date=15 January 2008 |url=https://freshairarchive.org/segments/photographer-astrid-kirchherr |access-date=30 May 2011 |publisher=[[WHYY-FM]]}}</ref> Kirchherr decided that all she wanted to do was to be as close to the Beatles as she could.{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=61}} The trio of friends had never heard [[rock n' roll]] before, having previously listened to only [[trad jazz]], with some [[Nat King Cole]] and [[The Platters]] mixed in.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=222}}{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=62}} The trio then visited the Kaiserkeller almost every night, arriving at 9 o'clock and sitting by the front of the stage.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=221}} Kirchherr later said: "It was like a merry-go-round in my head, they looked absolutely astonishing... My whole life changed in a couple of minutes. All I wanted was to be with them and to know them."{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=223}}

Kirchherr later said that she, Voormann and Vollmer felt guilty about being German, and about Germany's recent history. Meeting the Beatles was something very special for her, although she knew that English people would think that she ate sauerkraut, and would comment on her heavy German accent, but they made jokes about it together.<ref name="AstridKirchherrbiogPiczo">{{cite web|url=http://astridkirchherr.piczo.com/?g=15644505&cr=3 |title=Astrid Kirchherr biog |publisher=Piczo |access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref> Lennon would make sarcastic remarks from the stage, saying "You Krauts, we won the war", knowing that very few Germans in the audience spoke English, but sailors from English-speaking countries present would roar with laughter.<ref name="FreshAirinterviewwithAstrid"/>

Sutcliffe was fascinated by the trio, but especially Kirchherr, and thought they looked like "real [[Bohemian style|bohemians]]". [[Bill Harry]] later said that when Kirchherr walked in, every head would immediately turn her way, and that she always captivated the whole room.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=222}} Sutcliffe wrote to a friend that he could hardly take his eyes off her and had tried to talk to Kirchherr during the next break, but she had already left the club.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=222}} Sutcliffe managed to meet them eventually, and learned that all three had attended the Meisterschule, which was the same type of art college that Lennon and Sutcliffe had attended in Liverpool.{{sfn|Spitz|2005|p=222}} (The ''Meisterschule für Mode, Textil, Grafik und Werbung'' - Master Craftspeoples' College for Fashion, Textile, Graphics, and Advertising - now called the [[Fachhochschule#Germany|University of Applied Sciences]]).<ref name="FabFourHangouts">{{cite web |first=Bill |last=Hillman |url=http://www.hillmanweb.com/BEATLES/places.html |title=Early '60s – Part V: Fab Four Hangouts (Quotations taken from ''The Beatles Anthology'') | publisher=Hillmanweb |access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref>