Heidi Wittwer was a stripper and erotic dancer from Leipzig, East Germany. She began her working life as a TV-store sales assistant, ensured a fast track to shop manager, a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She became interested in dancing, enrolled at an art school, and was nominated Mis Leipzig Carnival which attracted a lot of media attention. Soon she was running a striptease education center along with working as a photographic designer.