Generations of German-speaking teenagers got their first sex and love advice from Dr. Sommer (Martin Goldstein). The director of a youth centre in Düsseldorf hat a no-nonsense approach to sex. In 1969, when sex was still a taboo topic, he was asked to take over the advice column in “Bravo”, following his book: “Different than with the birds and the bees”.
Born to a Jewish father and a protestant mother, he spend most of the war years dodging the regime in the woods close to Bielefeld. Many years later he mentioned that he was afraid of the Gestapo, not of sex.
He removed the masturbation-taboo and answered basic questions like if one could get pregnant from petting or swallowing semen in his very “unverklempt” direct manner.
His final book “Teenage Love” was published in 2009. The 85-year old died following a long illness in a Düsseldorf Hospice.