Name Domenica Niehoff | Role Prostitute | |
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Died February 12, 2009, Hamburg, Germany Movies Taxi to Cairo, Desperado City Similar Molly Luft, Gerda Munsinger, Rosemarie Nitribitt |
Domenica Anita Niehoff (3 August 1945 – 12 February 2009), also known as Domenica, was a German prostitute and activist. She appeared in television shows in the 1990s, where she campaigned for legalization of and regulation of the profession.
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Biography
![Domenica Niehoff Domenica und die Herbertstrasse German Edition Andrej](https://alchetron.com/cdn/domenica-niehoff-98f9aba2-0e85-4d6a-894c-02c273614ce-resize-750.jpeg)
Niehoff was born in Cologne. Her mother, Anna, fled from her father and raised her children by fortune telling and minor crimes. After her mother was arrested, Niehoff and her brother Amando lived in a Catholic orphanage until she was 14 when she began work as a trainee clerk. When she was 17, she met a brothel-owner whom she later married. Her husband committed suicide in 1972.
![Domenica Niehoff Serie Domenica Niehoff Das Leben der bekanntesten Hure](https://alchetron.com/cdn/domenica-niehoff-1904e661-294e-4c70-ada2-2102d395edc-resize-750.jpeg)
During that year she started working as a prostitute in red light district of Hamburg, St. Pauli and in the Herbertstraße. Later she opened a studio and became known as a dominatrix. She appeared on German TV talk shows campaigning for prostitutes and legalisation of the profession from the 1970s onwards. By the 1990s, she had retired from prostitution but stayed in Hamburg's red light district to open a bar. A later bar closed in 2000 when Niehoff had unpaid tax bills. In 1991, she co-founded Ragazza e.V to help young prostitutes and in the same period began to help drug addicts.
![Domenica Niehoff Domenica Niehoff In den 1980er Jahren machte](https://alchetron.com/cdn/domenica-niehoff-0bebf5f3-987d-453c-98a7-d829845b57f-resize-750.jpeg)
She died in February 2009 from lung disease and complications from diabetes in a Hamburg hospital. Niehoff was buried in the Garden of Women at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery. She was the first prostitute buried in this area for distinguished women, according to the coordinator of the funeral service.
![Domenica Niehoff Domenica Niehoffquot Painting art prints and posters by Bela](https://alchetron.com/cdn/domenica-niehoff-fcce43be-cb32-4a32-b6c3-bdeee0a22eb-resize-750.jpg)
In November 2016, it emerges that a street is to be named after Niehoff in the Altona district of Hamburg.