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Nina Hagen regrets the television scandal with Angela Merkel in 1992: "I just got a listless look from her"

2022-12-03T14:26:22.123Z


Nina Hagen is apparently getting old – at least when she looks back at a TV appearance with Angela Merkel in 1992 at the age of 67. At that time the singer screamed, today she is sorry.


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Nina Hagen: The Bundeswehr played your song "You forgot the color film" at Merkel's tattoo

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For her tattoo, Angela Merkel wanted the hit »You forgot the color film« by Nina Hagen.

Is the punk singer, who had a hit with it in the GDR in 1974, now reflecting on an earlier encounter with the former Chancellor?

It is possible that the 67-year-old artist has simply become mild with age.

In any case, Hagen regrets, so she tells the "Augsburger Allgemeine", her appearance on a talk show with the CDU politician in the early 1990s.

"Today I'm sorry that I yelled and didn't stay factual," she told the newspaper.

"I'll yell at you as long as I want"

The singer means her visit to the Sat1 show "Talk im Turm" in 1992. She argued violently about drug policy with the then Minister for Women Merkel and other guests.

Until it burst out from Hagen and she clashed, especially with the chairwoman of the Federal Parents' Council.

"I'll yell at you as long as I want," she called to Ilse-Maria Oppermann, "I'm fed up with your lies, your hypocrisy." And: "I'm going home to my children right now." Also Moderator Erich Böhme could not calm her down, Hagen left the current program with a roar.

Nina Hagen was noticed several times in television programs with at least eccentric behavior, with loud freaks – and was probably invited in part because of this: as a guest with a high probability of riots.

Already in 1979 she had caused quite a stir when she demonstrated masturbation techniques on an Austrian talk show.

In 2005, »Menschen bei Maischberger« led to a violent controversy with the left-wing politician Jutta Ditfurth (»I find it terrible what this fat woman is doing to me. Jutta Ditfurth, you are a stupid, stupid cow«).

And two years later, there was also a scandal at Maischberger when Hagen left out about UFOs and extraterrestrials and attacked the science journalist Joachim Bublath.

Her appearance in 1992 is a small piece of television history.

"My patience was just at the end," says Hagen today about the discussion with the future chancellor and party leader of the Christian Democrats.

“I didn't get any answers from her to my questions, just an impassive look.

Then I freaked out and went home.”

Apr/AFP

Source: spiegel

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