Frauke Stark
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| Born | Julia Brückner 14 April 1960 |
| Nationality | Gylian |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Mişeyáke |
| Occupation | Pornographic actress, producer, and director |
| Known for | Shopping |
| Net worth |  Ŧ12 billion (2018) |
Julia Brückner (Gylic transliteration: Iulia Byryúknáyr, born 14 April 1960), known by the stage name Frauke Stark (Gylic transliteration: Fyrauke Şytaryk), is a Gylian pornographic producer, director, and actress. She became famous in the 1990s with her Shopping series, and is one of Gylias' most successful pornographers.
Early life
Julia Brückner was born on 14 April 1960 in Garés. Her parents were from Acrea and Shalum, met as international volunteers in the People's Army, and remained members of the GSDF after the Liberation War. She has three younger brothers.
She began studying psychology at the Federal University of Mişeyáke in 1978, and ultimately completed a Ph.D in 1985.
Career
She started acting in pornographic films while in university. She chose the stage name "Frauke Stark" as a pun, wishing to have a "soft-hard" duality in her stage name.
Her career progressed slowly during the 1980s. Eventually, she found a niche playing voracious older women. She gradually learned about filmmaking from conversations with colleagues and crew members, and decided to start making her own pornographic films.
She set up her own studio in 1989.
Shopping
Frauke gained her breakthrough in 1990 with the film Shopping for Girls. The film's slick production values, breezy tone, and tongue-in-cheek commercial elements found an unexpected audience. Stark followed it with Shopping for Boys in the same year.
She refined the formula and turned Shopping into an ongoing series with three parts, based on intended audience and partners: Shopping for Girls, Shopping for Boys, and Shopping for TIQles (transgender, intersex, and queer).
Frauke's Shopping films focus on straightforward sexual acts, with elements of clothing fetishism and tongue-in-cheek commercial and transactional elements.
She appears in the films as a wealthy and insatiable woman seeking out partners, preferring younger and less experienced ones. Her characters are humorously portrayed relating everything to money, and basing their attractiveness on a combination of looks and wealth. The series' visual style, directing, and packaging is similarly self-parodic. Soundtracks generally feature Neo-Gylian Sound, city pop, acid jazz, house music, and similar genres.
The success of the Shopping films inspired a subgenre of "business burlesque" pornography, which became one of the largest genres in Gylian pornography.
Other activities
Frauke is one of Gylias' most famous pornographers, and one of the richest. Her net wealth is estimated to be Ŧ12 billion.
Her fame spread beyond pornography in the 1990s, and she became a media personality. She has produced non-pornographic films, made cameo appearances as herself in various productions, and has collaborated with several musical acts, providing spoken word vocals and sexual sounds.
She has produced a range of merchandise of herself, including "anatomically correct" action figures, branded sex toys, her own sex simulation video game, a line of clothing that duplicates her trademark business-suited appearance, lingerie, perfume, handbags, and footwear.
She maintains a separation between her pornographic work as Frauke Stark and her non-pornographic work as Julia Brückner. She is an occasional university lecturer in psychology, and is politically active with Love, Nature, Democracy. She served in the Gylian Senate between 1 September and 1 December 2016, nominated by President Laura Varnaþ.
She is a participant in the Social Partnership Program, and is close friends with Marie-Agnès Delaunay and Agathe Sanna, all three having tongue-in-cheek public images in common.
Private life
Frauke is a trans woman, who began transitioning at age 10. She wears large breast prostheses with business suits as part of her public image out of personal preference.
She identifies as pansexual with a slight preference for female partners, commenting in an interview: "I enjoy doing all three [of the Shopping series], but to tell you the truth I enjoy Shopping for Girls a bit more."
Her autobiography, Hard at Work, was released in 2005.