Monday, July 11, 2005
Granny grows tired of prostitution at age 63
BERLIN - A Berlin grandmother who has worked the
city's diplomatic quarter as a prostitute for the last 49 years
plans to retire when she turns 64 next year, according to
Germany's Bild newspaper.
Even though prostitutes were forced to leave the area after
the Berlin Wall, fell because dead-end streets in the
downtrodden district were re-connected to east Berlin and
property values surged, Renate Dolle was allowed to stay, Bild
said.
"I've got a lot of regular clients," the blonde woman told
the newspaper, pictured wearing a short red mini skirt and
high-heeled white boots as she stood near the Japanese embassy.
She said she charges 30 euros and on good nights she has
four to five clients.
"I'm going to stop at 64 and retire," said Dolle, whose
husband drops her off for work each night after the television
evening news and who has a nine-year-old granddaughter.
She is one of 10,000 prostitutes in Berlin and 400,000 in
Germany, where prostitution is legal. Dolle said she tried to
work in a popular red light district nearby recently but was
chased away by younger competitors.
"What do you want here, you old whore, get lost," Dolle
said they shouted at her. "What did I ever do to them?"
