Aber am Freitag galt es nach Informationen des Veranstalters als so gut wie sicher, dass das Konzert nächsten Freitag, 6. Das erste Mal in ihrer Karriere musste sie Konzerte absagen, unter anderem das in Eschweiler Samstagabend. Nina Hagen: “Wenn Ihr wollt, wasch’ ich Euch die Füße” – (Jul 10)ĪACHEN. She also talks about never being a Hindu, her interpretation of the song “Personal Jesus”, and other interesting tidbits. Nina discusses her nasty flu which has caused the cancellation of a few shows. Later that afternoon, Nina Hagen tweaked my colorless teenage existence positively fluorescent. The next day after school I rode my bike straight to Tower Records and purchased her only U.S. Patrick’s Day, Christmas morning and New Years’ Eve, all fused together with a deadening jolt of galvanic electricity.įrom a thorough beating of bleach, dyes and fixatives, her hair - colored a flaming pink - stood on end in sharp sprays, her face was lacquered with a frenzied cosmetic of glitter and greasepaint, and over a neon blue bodysuit and white apron she was fitted with a foot-long black dildo “tail” strapped to her backside - all this from a woman who made a passionate escape from East Germany. Her history was compelling enough, but it was her aesthetic that seduced me she looked like Easter Sunday, Halloween, Valentine’s and St. In March of 1981 I saw a spread in Creem Magazine on an East German punk sensation named Nina Hagen. I don’t know if you can still find this story on Boing-Boing, but here it is just in case! You know how things tend to disappear from the web… It was on a smallish website called Boing-Boing, which over the years came to be a massive and hugely successful website, and one of the best ever, in my opinion. This is one of the first “fan stories” I found on the web many years ago, and boy it’s a doozy.