However, none of the albums achieved notable commercial success. The talk show host, Dieter Seefranz, had to step down following this controversy.
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Charts. She performed songs from this album during the 1985 version of. Hagen submitted an application to leave the country.
- Simultaneously fashion photographer Hannes Schmid produced a Nina Hagen cover for German magazine.
After her stepfather 's East German citizenship was withdrawn from him in 1976, Hagen followed him to. Shortly afterwards, she was offered a record deal from and formed Nina Hagen Band. Their was released in 1978 to a critical acclaim and was a commercial success selling over 250,000 copies. The band released one more album before their break-up in 1979. In 1982, Hagen signed a new contract with CBS and released her debut solo album , which became her first record to chart in the United States. She followed it with two more albums: 1983 and 1985 , before her contract with CBS expired and was not renewed. In 1989, she was offered a record deal from. She released three albums on the label: 1989 , 1991 , and 1993. However, none of the albums achieved notable commercial success. Hagen made her musical comeback with the release of her album 2000. Besides her musical career, Hagen is also a. She wrote three : Ich bin ein Berliner 1988 , Nina Hagen: That's Why the Lady Is a Punk 2003 , and Bekenntnisse 2010. She is also noted for her human and animal rights activism. Hagen with Magdi Body, and Tatjana Archipowa, April 1976 Nina Hagen was born in the former , , the daughter of Hans Hagen also known as Hans Oliva-Hagen , a scriptwriter, and née Buchholz , an actress and singer. Her paternal grandfather died in the her father was. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up, she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study , and was considered an by the time she was nine. When Hagen was 11, her mother married , an anti-establishment. Biermann's political views later influenced young Hagen. Hagen left school at age sixteen and went to Poland, where she began her career. She later returned to Germany and joined the cover band, Fritzens Dampferband Fritzen's Steamboat Band , together with Achim Mentzel and others. From 1972 to 1973, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduating, she joined the band Automobil. In East Germany, she performed with the band Automobil, becoming one of the country's best-known young stars. Her musical career in the DDR was cut short, when she and her mother left the country in 1976, following the expulsion of her stepfather. Hagen submitted an application to leave the country. In it, she claimed to be Biermann's biological daughter, and threatened to become the next if not allowed to rejoin her father. Her label advised her to acclimatise herself to Western culture through travel, and she arrived in London during the height of the movement. The debut album gained significant attention throughout Germany and abroad, both for its sound and for Hagen's theatrical vocals which drew heavily from her operatic training, far different from the straightforward singing of her East German recordings. However, relations between Hagen and the other band members deteriorated over the course of the subsequent European tour, and Hagen decided to leave the band in 1979, though she was still under contract to produce a second album. The other band members sans Hagen, soon developed a successful independent musical career as. Meanwhile, Hagen's public persona was steadily creating media uproar. She became infamous for an appearance on an Austrian evening talk show called Club 2, on 9 August 1979, on the topic of youth culture, when she demonstrated while clothed, but explicitly various female positions and became embroiled in a heated argument with other panelists, in particular, writer and journalist. The talk show host, Dieter Seefranz, had to step down following this controversy. She also acted with Dutch rocker and singer in the 1979 film. Brood and Hagen would have a long romantic relationship that would end when Hagen could no longer tolerate Brood's drug abuse. A limited-edition 10-inch EP was released on vinyl that summer in the U. Two songs from her first album were on the A side, and two songs from her second album were on the. All four songs were sung in German, although two had English titles and the other two were covers of English-language songs with new German lyrics. In late 1980, Hagen discovered she was pregnant, broke up with the father-to-be Ferdinand Karmelk, and moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter, , was born in on 17 May 1981. In 1982, Hagen released her first album: , a dissonant mix of punk, funk, reggae, and opera. She then went on a world tour with the No Problem Orchestra. In 1983, she released the album and a minor European tour. By this time, Hagen's public appearances were becoming stranger and frequently included discussions of God, UFOs, her social and political beliefs, animal rights and vivisection, and claims of alien sightings. During 1984 Hagen spent a lot of time in London and UK based MusicSzene magazine chief-editor Wilfried Rimensberger, in conjunction with Spree Film, produced a first TV feature on her and what was remaining from London's 70 Punk movement induced by artist and model Frankie Stein. She performed songs from this album during the 1985 version of. To this day Brazilians remember Nina above all things as the Berlin Girl from Tokyo's song. Wilfried Rimensberger and award-winning film director Lothar Spree produced a TV documentary for the German television station. This was followed by a launch of Nina's UFO fashion underwear at anti-SAFT in Zurich, where again Rimensberger joined her up with icon performing on stage. Simultaneously fashion photographer Hannes Schmid produced a Nina Hagen cover for German magazine. This also coincided with leading music publications like BRAVO and MusicSzene running cover stories that all put Hagen back on the forefront of something that in retrospective became a final highpoint of what the punk movement was all about. At the end of 1986, her contract with was over and she released the EP independently in 1987, a celebration of her marriage to a 18-year-old punk South African nicknamed 'Iroquois'. In 1989 she had a relationship with french make-up artist Franck Chevalier which yielded their son, Otis Chevalier-Hagen b. In the 1990s, Hagen lived in Paris with her daughter and son Otis. In 1991 she toured Europe in support of her new album. In 1992 Hagen became the host of a TV show on. The following year, she released. In 1997 she collaborated with German musician. In 1998, Hagen became the host of a weekly show on the British , in addition to embarking on another tour of Germany. In 1999, she released the devotional album , which was distributed exclusively online and included an unadulterated musical version of the mantra in real life she believes that the Hindu incarnation of known as Krishna was 'the king of Jerusalem'. Also in 1998, she recorded the official club anthem Eisern Union! B Music and Distribution GmbH. In 1999, she played the role of Celia Peachum in by and , alongside. She also regularly performs songs by Kurt Weill, and set to Brecht's texts. The album was released in February 2001, accompanied by another German tour. On 14 October 2002 Nina hit Moscow by coming there with her concert, while interviews with the eccentric singer were aired on many TV-channels. Hagen the voice of Sally in the German release of 's , and she has also done voice work on the movie Hot Dogs by Michael Schoemann. Later albums include 2003 , in which she sang numerous covers with her then husband, Danish singer and performer, Lucas Alexander. This was followed by Heiß, a greatest hits album. The following album, Journey to the Snow Queen, is more of an audio book — she reads the with 's in the background. In 2005 Nina Hagen headlined the in New York City. Hagen was an active protester against the. In 2006 she was a part of the team. In August 2009 she was baptized in the Protestant of. On 21 October after seven years passed she visited Moscow again. Retrieved 25 December 2016. Archived from the original on April 25, 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2016. Archived from on July 30, 2014.
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