Nina Hagen

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Nina Hagen at the premiere of the film The 7th Dwarf (2014)

Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born March 11, 1955 in East Berlin ) is a German singer , actress and songwriter . She is known as the German " Godmother of Punk ", influenced the German New Wave and was a pioneer of the Neue Deutsche Welle .

Life

Hagen (far left) with Manfred Krug in the Friedrichstadtpalast (1976)

Nina Hagen was born in 1955 in the East Berlin district of Friedrichshain as the daughter of the actress Eva-Maria Hagen and the screenwriter Hans Oliva-Hagen . She originally wanted to become an actress in the GDR , but her application was rejected by the drama school without explanation. The MfS officer responsible had written the note “Prevent!” On the application for membership, as the dissident Wolf Biermann was her mother's partner and Nina Hagen was therefore also considered politically unreliable. After that she sang with several bands in Poland and thus came to the Alfons Wonneberg Orchestra .

As a teenager she sang in the Reinhard Lakomy Choir. In 1974 Hagen finished a one-year vocal training at the Central Studio for Entertainment Art as a certified pop singer ; their vocal range is given by the press as four octaves. Hagen was discovered by the Automobil group at a concert and immediately engaged. Their first release was the title You forgot the color film that two of the band members wrote on the East German record label Amiga . In 1975 she left Automobiles and switched to Fritzens Dampferband . A public declaration of solidarity for the ostracized Wolf Biermann, who was expatriated from the GDR in 1976, put Hagen on the sidelines, so that on December 28 of the same year she took the opportunity to emigrate to the West. She first went to Great Britain and was there in the punk scene .

After moving to the Federal Republic of Germany , she founded the Nina Hagen Band together with the Kreuzberg musicians Bernhard Potschka , Herwig Mitteregger , Manfred “Manne” Praeker , who had previously played for Lokomotive Kreuzberg , and Reinhold Heil . In 1978 the internationally acclaimed album Nina Hagen Band was released . Not much later, the singer fell out with the four musicians who accused her of being unpredictable and egocentric starry airs. However, since a second album had already been contractually agreed with the record company CBS, the recordings were initially made by the four musicians, and later - in the absence of the four musicians - Hagen's vocals were recorded. The title of the 1979 album is discomfort . In the 1980s, the four musicians were able to record great success under the band name Spliff without Hagen. In the 1980s and 1990s, Hagen drew attention to herself through her UFO theories, her great interest in spirituality and religion, and her commitment to animal welfare. These influences can also be found on the numerous record releases of this time, recorded with a wide variety of musicians.

Nina Hagen (1980)
Nina Hagen (2003)

Between 1980 and 1986 Hagen lived mainly in the USA, London and the Netherlands and also performed frequently in the USA during this time. 1983 her LP Angstlos was released , the English version Fearless ; In 1984 she toured the USA and Europe with the program of the same name. In 1985 Hagen appeared at the premiere of Rock in Rio in front of around 300,000 spectators. In 1986 she returned to Germany. She stylized herself as a punk rock diva , advised by the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier . On her next records she acted cosmopolitan, sang sometimes in German, sometimes in English, and proposed herself to be president ( Street , 1991). In 1993 she made a new attempt with the album Revolution Ballroom and the producer Phil Manzanera . In 1996 she sang the title Weihnachtsnaach , a cover version of the Pogues title Fairytale of New York, on the BAP album America together with Wolfgang Niedecken . In 1997 she sang the song Solo with Thomas D , which was later released as a single, for his album of the same name.

For the 100th birthday of the playwright Bertolt Brecht , she moved back to her native Berlin in early 1998. Together with the actress and chanson singer Meret Becker , she gave the punk Brecht evening in the Berliner Ensemble. We're both Anna and talked to the poet. In 1999 she sang the soprano part of Celia Peachum for a CD double album of the Threepenny Opera with Max Raabe as Mackie Messer and the Ensemble Modern under HK Gruber , true to the original score by Kurt Weill . In 1998 Hagen recorded a new anthem for the Berlin soccer club 1. FC Union Berlin .

In March 2000, barefoot in a silk sari , she presented an “Indian Night” on the stage of the Berlin ensemble, fogged with incense sticks, in front of an altar with offerings. Part of the featured songs there appeared exclusively on Hagen's website, the proceeds of which half the Babaji - ashram , a German hospice, Brazilian street children, children's hospitals in India and Chernobyl should benefit. The filmmaker Peter Sempel made an experimental documentary, Nina Hagen - Punk & Glory, which documents the years 1994 to 1999, about Nina Hagen, her family and companions. She moved to the fore again through the collaboration with Thomas D and the bands Oomph! and apocalyptica .

In 2001 Hagen spoke for the Rilke project CD Up to All Stars, the poems The world that is moons and How the star is one. Nina Hagen's biography was published in December 2002 . That's Why the Lady Is a Punk by the writer Marcel Feige in close collaboration with Hagen. The book was awarded the Corine Literature Prize in 2003. In 2002 Hagen sang a remake of the classic Kriminaltango in a duet with the Swiss singer Michael von der Heide . In 2005, Hagen made a guest appearance on Frank Zander's album Rabenschwarz II and sang a cover version of Siw Malmkvist's hit Liebeskummer ist nicht sein . Furthermore, in 2005 she was the star guest of the Berlin Yoga Festival and the Vienna Life Ball , where she sang Falco's Ganz Wien (... is on heroin today) and the John Lennon classic Imagine with Omara Portuondo , Marianne Faithfull and Chaka Khan .

Nina Hagen (2010)

In 2006 and 2007 Hagen was a jury member for the casting show Popstars . In 2006 she began a musical collaboration with The Capital Dance Orchestra . With the album Irgendwo auf der Welt she sang film hits in a new guise in a big band sound. With the concert program of the same name, she went on tour with the orchestra in German-speaking countries in 2006. In March 2008, Hagen organized an educational show in Berlin, which she later published on the Internet (Nina Hagen uncensored) . There she publicly criticized the media, which, in her opinion, did not report constitutionally on current events in politics and business. On May 17th, 2008 Nina Hagen presented the song Kinky Melody at the Vienna Life Ball , which was also released on a CD by the fashion label Agent Provocateur .

In 2009 her English-language CD Personal Jesus was released , on which she reinterpreted well-known gospel and blues pieces. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote about it on July 9, 2010: “In doing so, it forces the listeners to adopt their newly-found Christian faith with a force that is difficult to escape. She can because she has a voice that dominates all emotional registers, from the coldness of Grace Jones to the frenzy of an early Tina Turner . ”On March 18, 2010, Hagen's autobiography , Confessions, was published . In 2011, the TV channel Arte showed the documentary Nina Hagen. Godmother of Punk . The newspaper Die Welt wrote about it on August 16, 2011 “In addition, Nina Hagen is extremely funny when viewed from a distance. Not just a laughing stock. A comedian before the Lord. "

In 2009 Nina Hagen supported Alliance 90 / The Greens in the federal election campaign . In 2017 she appeared at the event “Links where the heart beats” on the results of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE . She also supports them in the election campaign for the 2017 federal election .

Hagen is committed to compensating the Duogynon victims. She is a supporting member of the Coordination against Bayer Risks . On September 10, 2011, she appeared in the program of the freedom instead of fear demonstration for civil rights on Berlin's Alexanderplatz .

On January 31, 2012 in Berlin the premiere event of the found patient of disposition -Kinospots of the National Association of Psychiatric Survivors Berlin-Brandenburg e. V. instead. The special living will PatVerfü and the cinema commercial with Hagen are among other things with flyers on which your likeness and the slogan “PatVerfü - Geisteskrank? Your own decision! ”Can be seen, advertised and received new credits in April 2012 due to various differences. From 2013 to 2014 Hagen campaigned for the release and rehabilitation of Ilona Haslbauer and Gustl Mollath, who were wrongly held in psychiatric hospitals .

Private life

In 1979 she was in a relationship with the musician Herman Brood . The song Herrmann was called he is attributed to him. In 1981 Hagen gave birth to their daughter Cosma Shiva . Their father is the Dutch guitarist Ferdinand Karmelk, who died in 1988 . In 1987 Hagen married the musician “Iroquois” from the London squatters ' scene in a “punk wedding” on Ibiza . After a week, the couple separated.

In 1989 she was in a relationship with the Frenchman Franck Chevalier, from this relationship comes a son. In May 1996, Hagen married David Lynn. The couple separated in 2000. In January 2004, Hagen married the Danish singer Lucas Alexander Breinholm. The separation took place in January 2005. From 2005 to 2010 Hagen was in a relationship with a physiotherapist from Canada.

Hagen has been a vegetarian since 1982 . In August 2009 she was baptized in Schüttorf by Pastor Karl-Wilhelm ter Horst as a Protestant Reformist.

Controversy

In the Austrian late evening discussion program Club 2 on August 9, 1979 on the subject of “What's wrong with youth culture?”, Nina Hagen caused a great deal of public attention when she demonstrated various positions of female masturbation in front of the camera - dressed, but explicitly . The discussion leader, Dieter Seefranz , later had to resign as the host of the show.

1992 was Hagen next to Angela Merkel and a representative of the Federal Parents Council in the Sat.1 -Talkshow Talk in the tower guest. With her advocacy of neuro-electrical stimulation as the only way to help heroin addicts in the long term, she caused controversy on the show. Above all, their discussion behavior became a topic in the media. Among other things, she said: “I yell at you for as long as I want.” Or “I'm fed up with your lies and your hypocrisy.” The moderator Erich Böhme's attempts at arbitration failed and Hagen left the show in the meantime.

Thomas Nöske wrote about Nina Hagen in his book Pop-Shamanism (1999): “She talks about UFOs, cosmic energies, charity, wisdom and enlightenment, but even if you don't believe her, you don't necessarily feel lured or loaded. Even if you watch her for two hours doing nothing but faxing and making faces, you still take something home with you. (...) there are few fictional characters who are so consistently fictional characters, with the exception of Warhol and Bowie , who meanwhile, for their sheer consistency, almost lost themselves in their artificiality. Actually you have to take Nina Hagen for full because no second half is known for half and she is clearly too much for nothing. The distinction between mesh and real makes them obsolete. "

In the talk show Menschen bei Maischberger on September 6, 2005, Hagen appeared as an election campaigner for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and was described by Jutta Ditfurth as "esoterically a bit crazy". Thereupon Hagen said: “I think it's terrible what this fat woman does to me. Jutta Ditfurth, you are a stupid, stupid cow. I will never speak to you in public again! "

On October 30, 2007, Nina Hagen once again caused a stir on the show Menschen bei Maischberger with her statements and discussion behavior. In the program on "UFOs, angels, extraterrestrials - are we not alone?" She expressed sympathy for the people allegedly kidnapped by extraterrestrials, spoke of "satanic influence" in the world and provoked the physicist and science journalist Joachim Bublath , who was also present , after who had expressed skepticism about the existence of aliens or esotericism , with grimaces and insults for leaving the live broadcast. The moderator Sandra Maischberger finally explained: "(...) and, with all due respect, Nina, I have the feeling that a lot is really getting mixed up in your head (...)"

Discography

The number of all records and CD releases worldwide on which Hagen's singing can be heard is likely to be approximately 500. In October 2005, the Nina Hagen Archive showed 206 vinyl records, 180 CDs and 30 audio cassettes, as well as 21 video cassettes and 12 DVDs.

For many of her albums she produced an English-language equivalent, for example Fearless is the English version of Angstlos . Often there are bonus tracks on these, so they are not pure 1: 1 conversions.

Studio albums (solo)

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1982 NunSexMonkRock DE27 (7 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: May 1982
1983 Fearless DE24 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT11 (12 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: September 1983
1985 In ecstasy DE24 (7 weeks)
DE 		AT13 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH13 (7 weeks)
CH
First published: May 1985
1989 Nina Hagen DE20 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT24 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH26 (3 weeks)
CH
First published: August 1989
1991 Street DE36 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT39 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH32 (6 weeks)
CH
First published: August 1991
2000 Return of the Mother DE77 (1 week)
DE 		AT49 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: February 2000
2006 Somewhere in the world DE62 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 2006
with The Capital Dance Orchestra
2010 Personal Jesus DE16 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT62 (1 week)
AT 		CH61 (1 week)
CH
First published: July 2010

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

more publishments

  • 1984: Fearless
  • 1993: Revolution Ballroom
  • 1995: Enjoy yourself
  • 1996: Beehappy
  • 1999: Om Namah Shivay (Indian album)
  • 2002: Om Namah Shivay / 1008 Indian Nights Live
  • 2003: Nina Hagen Big Band Explosion
  • 2011: Volksbeat

Compilations

  • 1986: World Now (Best of Nina Hagen)
  • 1987: Love
  • 1990: The Very Best of Nina Hagen
  • 1992: Collection Gold
  • 1992: You forgot the color film [Rock aus Deutschland Ost Vol. 12]
  • 1992: In My World (Compilation 1989/1991)
  • 1995: Definitive Collection
  • 1996: 14 Friendly Abductions: The Best of Nina Hagen
  • 1996: What ... hits '74 -'95
  • 1997: Bahnhof Carbonara - Best (1978–84) (a compilation from the Phono Music / Zounds label containing tracks by Nina Hagen and Spliff. All tracks were digitally remastered.)
  • 2000: Great Nina in ecstasy
  • 2000: Simply the Best
  • 2001: Star Girl
  • 2001: portrait
  • 2003: The Collection
  • 2004: TV goggles
  • 2004: Rangeh'n
  • 2004: What ... hits '74 -'95
  • 2005: hot
  • 2014: All Time Best - Reclam Music Edition
  • 2020: what?

Live albums and bootlegs

  • 1991: Ninamania
  • 2002: Krefeld Appell - Official Live

Video albums:

  • 2012: Live At Rockpalast (Bonn, Rheinaue, August 28, 1999)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1991 In My World
Street 		- - CH19 (2 weeks)
CH
First published: September 1991
1998 Solo
solo 		DE15 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT36 (4 weeks)
AT 		CH26 (11 weeks)
CH
First publication: March 1998
with Thomas D
2000 The wind told me a song
Return of the Mother 		DE96 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: January 2000
2001 Total Eclipse / The Black Widow
Cash poison 		DE22 (7 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 2001
with Rosenstolz
2003 Sailor
Reflections 		DE13 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT35 (7 weeks)
AT 		CH73 (2 weeks)
CH
First published: October 2003
with Apocalyptica
2004 Always loud
single track 		- AT28 (6 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: May 2004

More singles

  • 1974: You forgot the color film
  • 1975: Hey, we're going to the country
  • 1975: Hatschi-Waldera
  • 1975: I'm not picky about it
  • 1979: Herman's Door
  • 1980: My Way
  • 1982: Smack Jack
  • 1983: Zarah
  • 1983: New York New York
  • 1983: New York / NY .
  • 1984: The Change
  • 1985: God in the Sky (Spirit in the Sky)
  • 1985: Universal radio
  • 1985: Universal Radio
  • 1986: World Now
  • 1986: Don't Kill The Animals
  • 1987: punk wedding
  • 1989: Hold Me / Michail, Michail (Gorbachev Rap)
  • 1989: Las Vegas
  • 1989: Love Heart Attack
  • 1989: New York NY Remix
  • 1991: Berlin (is cool) / Erfurt & Gera
  • 1991: Flowers for the ladies
  • 1992: You forgot the color film
  • 1992: Go Ahead
  • 1992: Get Your Body! ( Adamski feat. Nina Hagen)
  • 1993: African Reggae Remix '93
  • 1993: Revolution Ballroom
  • 1993: Pillow Talk
  • 1994: So bad
  • 1995: animals
  • 1996: Sunday morning
  • 1997: Dead Cities / I'm a Believer
  • 1998: Iron Union! (Club anthem of 1. FC Union Berlin )
  • 2000: The world is beautiful / The wind told me a song
  • 2002: Kriminaltango (duet with Michael von der Heide )

Filmography

Nina Hagen at the premiere of the film The 7th Dwarf on September 21, 2014

Shows

Awards

Autobiography and Interview

  • I am a Berliner: my sensual and supernatural life , autobiography by Nina Hagen. Goldmann, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-442-30352-4 .
  • Nina Hagen: Confessions . Pattloch, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-629-02272-1 (autobiography)
  • Gero von Boehm : Nina Hagen. December 2, 2002 . Interview in: Encounters. Images of man from three decades . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89910-443-1 , pp. 373-378.
  • 43-minute TV show about and with Nina Hagen, broadcast by ARD in the series Deutschland, Deine Künstler on November 16, 2014

literature

Web links

Commons : Nina Hagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Nina Hagen  - in the news
Wikiquote: Nina Hagen  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nina Hagen: The mother of punk guest star on Bible television. In: Klatsch-Tratsch.de. June 2, 2010, accessed November 26, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Julia Breitkopf: God lives! Punk is dead? In: The Gap. December 27, 2011, accessed November 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ whoswho.de
  4. ↑ swr.de
  5. ↑ a b Jan Ulrich Welke: Nina Hagen's autobiography: Bit wise, not a bit quiet. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 8, 2010, accessed January 6, 2015 .
  6. ↑ https://www.ddr-tanzmusik.de/index.php/Reinhard_Lakomy Reinhard Lakomy on ddr-tanzmusik.de
  7. ↑ faz.net
  8. ^ The Rolling Stone Archive 2006 , accessed November 16, 2010
  9. ^ Text of the hymn on the 1. FC Union Berlin homepage , accessed on November 16, 2010
  10. ↑ a mantra concert with "Nina Hagen & Moti Ma & friends" ( Memento of 3 December 2013 Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
  12. ↑ welt.de
  13. ↑ Nina Hagen is campaigning for the German Greens . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed July 2, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Uwe Kalbe: Closing ranks with Nina Hagen . In: new Germany . ( neue-deutschland.de [accessed on July 2, 2017]).
  15. ^ Proceedings against Bayer Schering: Nina Hagen supports victims
  16. ↑ CBG website
  17. ↑ on Youtube
  18. ↑ zwangspsychiatrie.de
  19. ↑ sueddeutsche.de
  20. ↑ regensburg-digital.de
  21. ↑ https://www.rockpalastarchiv.de/dvd/brood.html
  22. ^ Punklady Nina Hagen turns 50 , Die Welt, March 7, 2005
  23. ↑ biography on Einfach-nina.de
  24. ^ Punk icon Nina Hagen in agony ( memento from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) DasErste.de, April 24, 2005
  25. ↑ Love off with River . Bunte, March 23, 2010
  26. ↑ Biography on dieterwunderlich.de
  27. ↑ Nina Hagen is baptized . Spiegel Online , August 17, 2009; Retrieved November 16, 2010
  28. ^ "Scandal Club" with Nina Hagen. ORF, August 9, 1979, accessed on November 13, 2013 .
  29. ↑ welt.de
  30. ↑ gebrauchtemusik.de
  31. ↑ welt.de
  32. ↑ Nina Hagen distributes Joachim Bublath. Excerpts from the broadcast. In: YouTube. January 25, 2010, accessed August 19, 2014 .
  33. ↑ Einfach-nina.de
  34. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  35. ↑ daserste.de
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Nina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Catharina (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin