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1990 on an NDR talk show: At the age of 17, Tatjana Patitz came to Berlin from Sweden, where she grew up.
The young woman won a six-month contract in a modeling competition in 1984.
Photo: teutopress / IMAGO
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1993 in the thriller »The Cradle of the Sun«: Patitz was considered the »German Face«.
They shot a famous Levi's commercial where she watched, beaded with sweat, as a young man got his jeans out of the fridge.
Photo: United Archives Entertainment / Publicity Still / IMAGO
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1993 with Amy Hill and Sean Connery: At that time Patitz lived with three dogs, two cats, four pigeons, a cockatoo and a horse in Malibu, California.
Photo: 20th Century Fox / Everett Collection / IMAGO
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1994 while shooting the film »Pret-A-Porter«: Patitz with the models Georgianna Robertson and Helena Christensen, the actress Tara Leon and the director Robert Altman.
Photo: Cola Images / IMAGO
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2006 as a model for the new Otto catalog in Hamburg: the model allows himself to be photographed by Peter Lindbergh again and again.
The German photographer and filmmaker is considered Patitz' discoverer.
Photo: Christian Charisius / REUTERS
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September 2022 with her son Jonah in Berlin: After separating from his father, the American businessman Jason Johnson, Patitz raised the boy alone.
Photo: Franziska Krug / Dior / Getty Images
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April 2022 in Munich: Most recently, the 56-year-old lived in Santa Barbara.
She still visited Germany regularly.
"Tatjana was always the European symbol of chic - like 'Romy Schneider meets Monica Vitti'," Vogue boss Anna Wintour is quoted as saying by the magazine.
The fashion magazine was the first to report Patitz's death.
Photo: Gisela Schober/WMF/Getty Images
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