Nina Hagen Interview on Videowave -- February 1984

[happycrawlingmaid]

looooooooooooooooooool

[catgroucho]

oh nina is so cute. she sounds a bit like a child here, the way she talks faster and faster. but in a cute way

[SuicidalChickens]

o.O

[RoachLIVEinLA]

i would marry her accent



[pescecan8]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE NINAAAAA!!!!!!!!! LUV HER, SHE REALLY IS GOD.

[Adler36]

German Lady GaGa! :-) I love eccentric people! :D I love her, and I'm atheist! ^^

[HCmon]

@Adler36 German Lady Gaga? That is a good one. You're asking to much, because unlike Gaga, this person has natural charisma, not what her record wants her to say.

[Adler36]

@HCmon Not true...

[hellchild65]

@Adler36 Lady Gaga is crap buddy, she's just the record companies 2 bit whore, she may have a good voice when she isnt singing pop, but her music completely dumbs her down to the level where she is blindly worshiped by people who are fans of whatever is on the radio and "in" for the moment, give her another 10 years, she wont be remembered for shit. "i wanna take a ride on your disco stick"? how can you even think to be taken seriously with a line like that and countless others in your lyrics

[Starkardur]

@hellchild65 didn´t Nina start as a punk singer her early performances were far far from what she was in the early 80´s. So everyone has to start somewhere but Nina is a punk singer gaga is a pop singer ( has never claimed to be something else)

[brofranomo]

I hope not all german women are this butt ugly.

[Clariccy]

@brofranomo Well, with a "System Of A Down taste"

Maybe you should go look at a HOT TOPIC chicks vid ?

"Linkin Park - What I've Done"  lolz

[brofranomo]

@Clariccy Like I said.

[ericacious]

"i liked him very much, i sat on his laps right away." :D I love you, Nina.

[scotfreak]

she is just plain crazy. but shes great

[ReliableInsider]

Hmm.



[Dest2KO]

Is it Ha!-gen, or Hay-gen?

[Scxcxxc]

@Dest2KO its Ha!-gen ..onlys 10 months later... ;)

[Rocketryman]

Nina, I want you.

[Marzziooo]

Dressy dressy dressy Eighties!

[Clariccy]

@Marzziooo fuck off  Timeless!

[Marzziooo]

@Clariccy  I love it.

[ChrissieBana]

oh nina! just think about the stories we could share!!!! you would sing, i would gather the kids and tell bedtime stories....

[yaywhewclips242]

she is a freak!! WEirdo. But she is 1980's cool and she's a animal activist. And hey, I like weirdoes. She cool and weird.

[8ballinthepocket]

I was waiting for the interviewer to ask her if humpty dumpty fell backwards or forwards off the wall but shit, it never happened'

I wasted 5:10 of my life listening to this crap

she has eons to go before reaching the level of beefheart....nice try sweetie

[alan8653]

@8ballinthepocket

You dont value your life so much if you spend time on You Tube  comments. Ha!

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@alan8653 Whats wrong with computer television?....cant be worse than movies or regular tv!

[alan8653]

@MrMedusaLvamp

Computer TV?

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@alan8653 Yes...its called You Tube.

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@alan8653 I guess every debate team in high school , and in every college around the world are all wasteing their time discussing different view points and looking at different perspectives on almost any subject...are all wasting their time and they 'dont value their lives so much' ...theyre doing exactly what we do here on the Utube everyday except with visuals added to reference on.

[alan8653]

@MrMedusaLvamp You can say that. As long as content and time are controlled and enlightenment results its a good thing.

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@alan8653 I totally agree!

[MrMedusaLvamp]

She's really creative and different than most people out there...it's too bad that the acid has eaten alot of brain cells to the point of effecting her personality and imparing her ability 2 communicate with ease. It seems to be difficult for her to get her feelings across and she is quite uncomfortable and irritable durring most of the interview. She has had a reputation 4 drama in past interviews but now she seems even more disconected. I hope shes okay!..I really like her alot! Love the do 2!

[alan8653]

She seems lucid from what Ive seen.

[warwickharris]

@alan8653 totally lucid, MrMedusaLvamp just doesn't like the fact she believes in Got, so was was having a 'disguised dig' at her spiritual beliefs. itz always yupical of people who hate, dislike, or don't believe in God! God shined a light into the darkness we all have and people don't like it - their dark side is brought to THE LIGHT!

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@warwickharris ..Hey Warlock!...How do you think you know what I like and dont like?...Read your post fool!...You sound like an uneducated retard who lacks the capacity to think like an adult. You assume way too much..by the way...what is "yupical" thats cute! I am probobly Nina's biggest fan out west here in the states! I have followed her carrer since the 70's. Speak 4 yourself before you start talking a bunch of SHIT U dont know about. Ive done acid too and you dont see me talking like that!

[warwickharris]

@MrMedusaLvamp 'yupical' is poetic licence... cross 'tween yuppie and typical. your'e a nutter if you have been able to ASSUME you nina's biggest fan in your area and re the command of the english language - your spew forth profanity... wash your mouth out. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. NEVER FORGET THAT!

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@warwickharris I AGREE...Thats why if you met me...Id bet youd LOVE me! Just like if I met you...Id probobly LOVE you too! I had to laugh when you said "Wash your mouth out!"..I havent heard that since I was in school...thats a hoot! I'll speak freely with what ever dialog I choose and you will have no say of it! Do U understand me? Very well then...you may continue and I suggest with causion. How do you like being told what 2 do BITCH?

[warwickharris]

@alan8653 @alan8653 totally lucid, MrMedusaLvamp just doesn't like the fact she believes in Got, so was was having a 'disguised dig' at her spiritual beliefs. itz always yupical of people who hate, dislike, or don't believe in God! God shined a light into the darkness we all have and people don't like it - their dark side is brought to THE LIGHT! she is having her own disguised dig at christianity, she is very crafty! she has her own beliefs = not organized religion!

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@warwickharris ...Hey Witchypoo!...If you dont think I believe in God...go get a gun and fuck yourself with it  untill it goes off......Now wank off to that oh dark one..ha ha!!!

[warwickharris]

@MrMedusaLvamp you just a typical anti spiritual believer! you don't fool all. the fact she believes in Got, is why you had a 'disguised dig' at her spiritual beliefs. one cap of acid CANNOT fry your brain. nina is HIGHLY intelligent! itz always typical of people who hate, dislike, or don't believe in God! God shines a light into the darkness we all have and people don't like it - their dark side is brought to THE LIGHT!

[MrMedusaLvamp]

@warwickharris How many times do you have to type the same post before you realize it doesnt make sense to anyone and that nobody cares what u think or that u even exist....go play with your voodoo dolls and ojwejie boards, dumb fuck!!!!

[grennie]

taking lsd IS akin to meeting god.... I think your perceptions of everything around you changes...

[JonnyCuntRadio]

A lot of this interview seems sarcastic and cynical, yet much of her music is about God and religion. I suppose she has a very personalized/spiritual view on it, not like the goody goody Christian conservative types (which I think she is mocking at 0:24 )

I mean "Nun Sex / Monk Rock"... and her tendency to culture-mash religions together. Whatever, she's great and strange.

[hairybalooncabbage]

OMG she MUST be schizophrenic

or...mental or something

i love this chick but seriously

..gods friends telling her to die?

after a lsd trip ? sounds fishy to me

[IamUberStein]

0:24! Why did she start talking like that.

Then at 0:38 she stops. She's a bit of a weirdo huh?

[Animalkisser]

Because god sends her drugs from heaven!

[ProbTron]

nah. She is playing with all of your minds :)

She is a genius.

[alan8653]

I want so badly to do a part 2 of this.

[Lyshyypop]

shes fucked..

[GeneralHoohah]

Wow..... I agree. She's messed up in the head. Or is she acting? I don't know...

[badluckshadow13]

@GeneralHoohah How so? Certainly Nina's religion seems to make a lot more sense than anything I've ever heard in a church...

[GeneralHoohah]

LOL! Are you being ironic or something?

Anyone who believes there's a magical god living up in heaven... is completely insane... or just brainwashed.

Anyone look into the eyes of someone who's highly religious? Its like a dolls eyes, like their brain has been stripped away and there's nothing there. Scares the shit outta me!!

That and clowns... >.> Clowns are pretty damn creepy.

[badluckshadow13]

@GeneralHoohah I love clowns, they're adorable.

It's mimes you've gotta watch out for.

[Animalkisser]

She´s making fun of all of us.

[GeneralHoohah]

I had a feeling she was. lol

But I don't count as part of that equation. I've always been an atheist, and I feel VERY strongly about it. In fact I pity anyone who worships a god. It sickens me. I don't feel that we'll be able to evolve as the human race until we finally abandon that kind of ignorance. But I don't think that will happen for thousands of years. It depresses me that I'll never see it. :(

But more and more atheists are finding the courage to speak up and not live in fear. :)

[Animalkisser]

I guess most people live in fear and need to believe in other than the things they see on this planet. I don´t pity believers, in a way they are lucky. To be realistic, like us, is much harder. I just wish they stopped doing horrible things in the mane of god........

[GeneralHoohah]

No I meant living in fear because those religious fuckers are always attacking and persecuting us, and just making our lives more difficult. They love to fuck with us, get us in trouble, harass us, try to convert us. I wish they'd all just burn... and yes I really mean that. I'd get out the marshmallows and celebrate a new era in human evolution.

They do those horrible things because religion teaches the mind to live in ignorance.

[Animalkisser]

Hmmm... Over here in my country, Spain, catholics used to burn people like us. Don´t be like them. You are better....

[alan8653]

Its wasnt an intimate little room but a busy large TV studio. Come again?

[novice8814]

Too bad she was never on Sprockets with Mike Myers. "Pet my monkey".

[alan8653]

I admit that would have been funny.

[novice8814]

Nina Hagan-Daz ? I scream!

[alan8653]

Ha!

[whatheavensaid]

Nina, you are BRILLIANT!

love love love to All

[Faelsun]

Nina is just seriously fucking with her.

[madsketcher]

About what, exactly?

[pogleswood2]

I am a Massive admirer of Nina`s. Ich liebe Nina Hagen und Nina`s musik. very whacky but fantastisch. x

Nina is very young in this interview so i would love to know what she thinks about it now and if her view has changed i dont think it has changed i think she has got good self belief and strong healthy views about life and what she wants out of it. Nina Hagen is Unique. x

[shealways]

i can tell nini hates the interviewer

[yogihaughton]

She's actually pretty dull, a little like listening to a young child rambling on.

[alan8653]

I actually think she might like that.

[sonnylove9]

Oh my god I love her so much!

She is the cutest thing ever!

[mrnack]

this is fascinating!

[alan8653]

I thought so! And I was there.

Wait a minute Nina, what about the time tunnels???????

[ajaku]

I love listening to Nina's interviews because it is so apparent that there's just so much going on in there...she's got a truly unique mind.

[jaseyboy]

I am a big fan of Nina, just wanted to put that out there in case people jump on me for what I'm going to say next, but the way I look at this it seems pretty obvious she had a bad LSD trip (the things she talks about experiencing on that trip are pretty standard) and has drawn a religious experience out of it that really was a result of the bad trip and not an actual visitation.

But that's just my interpretation, and I did enjoy this interview very much.

[billythebearfan]

hi jaseyboy! im not jumping on you now incase you will experience what i will say next as that ;)

but i wonder why do you feel the need to state a limit to someone elses reality?

[jaseyboy]

Hey mate, thanks for the reply!

Basically I was just putting out my own opinion of what she had gone through, filtered through my own experiences. Of course, I wasn't there and she was and I would never try to limit her reality. I guess when I was listening to her I was so struck by how her experience seemed like a bad trip, I just wanted to put a different perspective out there. But she could also be 100% correct and I could be completely mistaken, and that's cool too. It's very intriguing!

[alan8653]

That's so funny I fergot to laff

[patrickbbishop]

Wow! I had no idea there was so much going on in Nina's head. GREAT interview. I'm glad I stumbled onto these Videowave interviews at YouTube - so many of the artists I was into in the 80s but could find almost nothing about in the popular media. Well done!

[blabadiblabla]

Sounds to me like she has a personal relationship with God that is real. God loves us all just the way we are. We all have different styles and personalities and different life experiences. God loves how we are all unique... I think it pleases him. like she said, he looks over us like a mother watching her child; the apple of her eye. i don't know how he can watch all of us at the same time but somehow he has figured out how to be everywhere at once.

[alan8653]

God is not gender specific. At that level in light of dualism (yin yang) god cannot be.

I suspect Nina's trip sent her into a greater reality

[DerQ85]

LSD is a hell of a drug

In Germany shes still the queen of freaks!

[kloverlindelona]

She believes in God? In the "Nina Hagen Band" record from 1979, she sings that he is dead...

[alan8653]

I believe she was referring to the conventional paradigm of God.

[Chiromanic]

There's a reason for that; the statement is part of the lyrics for "Auf'm Friedhof" and is proclaimed by a character in the story.

The devil, he helps us, and tells us

"God is dead

The Lord is gone

God is dead

The Lord is gone

It helps to investigare a little, right? ;-)

[kloverlindelona]

Ahaaa, I understand!

But oh, I've got to say I'm a bit disappointed... knowing this.

Thanks for the information anyway!

[theogore]

Postively unbiased and wonderful interview! Thanks!

[alan8653]

My approach to interviews was (and is) not to judge.

[shealways]

nina look scruffy there..i like her more now..nice and glam..yumyum

[truthspeaker2000]

is it possible somewhere to download

the whole interview ?

[alan8653]

the whole thing will be available on dvd or VHS

[madsketcher]

What vendor? Are you selling them? I'll gladly buy.

[madsketcher]

Whoopsie - impatient me... I didn't realize you were actually videowave when I posted my responses. Please let me (us) know when the videos/DVDs will be available. Thanks again!

[alan8653]

I will tell you immediately.

[madsketcher]

You're the best

[shealways]

i dont think nina likes her..mind u she is quite ugly

[alan8653]

Remember this is just a small part. A small window of the interview. The interviewer is an accomplished journalist to this day with an impressive resume.

[deepbluehue3]

THat poor interviewer had alot of artist have a hard time closing themselves off from her ( seemingly ) intrusive questions .

[SkeeterNYC]

This is genius. What a a score. Please post the whole thing. Thank you.

[alan8653]

Its far too long for You Tube.

[madsketcher]

If you change your account to "Director" you can post video over 10 minutes long. I'm a hardcore Hagenite - I'd be forever in your debt if you posted the whole thing, here... or somewhere else. Thanks!

[alan8653]

Thats good to know. Buts its a pain to convert from 3/4" to digital to encode to upload. DVDs are easier.

[justpaulwithnohandle]

aren't you pals with Tuli K? How is he . . . i still have a few cartoons he sent me for So What magazine my favorite was his bargain hardware store? and little don't buy this notations all around saying dont buy this its too expensive

[ffranzos]

Nice video to watch while drinking Guava juice...

[alan8653]

Its sour poops or something...........

[nelohagen]

soooooooooooooo beautiful and soooooooo kind!!soooooooooooooo fearlesssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank u soooooo much!

[madsketcher]

Interestingly enough, if you believe in astrology at all, according to Gary Goldschneider (who is renowned as an astrologer) people born on March 11th (Nina's birthday) are supposedly prone to extreme psychic phenomena - so while she may sound nuts, you never know if what she is talking about is real. I knew a clairvoyant who took LSD once and it threw him out of his body.

[madsketcher]

THANK YOU!

[alan8653]

This was just an excerpt

[madsketcher]

I figured... do you have the rest? I'd love to see it!!!

[alan8653]

Indeed I do.

[madsketcher]

Okay! So what do I need to do in order to see it? *Bats eyelashes*