Doreen Seidel

About Doreen Seidel

Doreen Seidel (born September 19, 1985) is a German racecar driver, racing instructor, Playmate and model. She made her debut as a racing driver in the 2011 ADAC Cruze Cup. In her career as a racing driver, Seidel has participated in both sprint car racing and endurance racing. She was Germany's Playmate Of The Year in 2008, and appeared in several international editions of Playboy.

Doreen Seidel was born in Chemnitz, Germany on September 19, 1985. She graduated from high school at the age of 18, and studied business administration in Wiesbaden, before deciding to move to Frankfurt and study marketing.

Growing up near the Sachsenring race track, Seidel was interested in motorbike racing from an early age. She bought her first motorcycle, a Yamaha R6, at the age of 18.
Seidel gained national recognition as a model when she appeared as May's Playmate of the Month in the German edition of Playboy in 2008. That same year, she was voted Germany's Playmate of the Year.

She graced the cover of the January 2009 issue with the other eleven Playmates of 2008, and was featured in a photo spread. Later that year, she was on the cover of the July 2009 issue alongside Leonor Perez and Magdalena Sierka, all three of whom were featured in a 14-page photo spread.[5]

Seidel appeared alongside Janine Habeck, Giuliana Marino, Sandra Latko and Daniela Wolf in Playboy's April 2011 edition which celebrated Hugh Hefner's 85th birthday.[6]

In addition to the German edition of Playboy, Seidel was also a Playmate in several other international editions, including Mexico, Spain, Russia, Poland, Greece, Argentina, Romania and Hungary. She was featured on the cover of the Bulgarian edition of the magazine.

Seidel was the grid girl in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for a team sponsored by Playboy, an experience which helped to inspire her to enter professional racing as a driver, and she later raced in a support series for the DTM. In 2019, she reported for Playboy on Burning Man in 2019.

Seidel modelled for a Valentine's Day anti-fur campaign by PETA with the motto "Love is in - fur is out". She was also featured as a model for an advertising series of the technology portal CHIP Online, and shot a commercial for a denture company with Mario Teusch.