The band hated it, and said so to Julianna. It is not a particularly splendid or expensive hotel and I had never heard of it before. ![]() The Victoria Hotel is a rather innocuous looking structure, sandwiched between other buildings near the foot of Yonge Street. Between us we agreed Thursday afternoon would be the best time and that the interview would be at Hagen's hotel. Instead I talked to Julianna, Hagen's film and video director and the closest thing she has to a day-to-day business manager right now. Early on the Tuesday evening I went to the soundcheck in order to set up an interview, but Hagen didn't come to the club until the show started. Nina Hagen and her band played three nights in Toronto at Larry's: a Tuesday, Thursday and Friday with the Wednesday off so Hagen could rest her voice. That is to become like Jesus, then you can walk over water and heal sick people in the name of Jesus." – Nina Hagen, Sounds July 3, 1982. "I am on my way to becoming the first superwoman, the first female Buddha. Nina Hagen now lives in America and continues to record for CBS records, who have released three albums to date: Nina Hagen Band, Unbehagen and Nunsexmonkrock. More recently she lived with musician Ferdinand Karmelk and he is the father of her child, a girl named Cosma Shiva. She lived in Holland too and became involved with the radical No-Name commune in Amsterdam and with Holland's rock superstar Herman Brood. She lived in England for a time and became a close friend of Arianna of the Slits who introduced her to the principal players in the nascent English punk scene. Biermann, who had assumed the role if not the title of her step-father, was deported as an undesirable in 1976 and Hagen was allowed to leave soon after, having already been turfed out of the Communist Youth Association for her links with Biermann and other dissidents. She worked as an actress on TV and as a singer with pop bands, eventually becoming a huge popular success and a star, at least by East German standards. ![]() During this period she studied singing at the Studio For Music Entertainment, training an already compelling voice until it became a precision instrument. She became increasingly radical during the 1970's under the influence of Wolf Biermann and other activists. ![]() She became a hippie in 1968 and also had her first religious experiences that year. Nina Hagen was born in East Germany in 1955.
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