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

THE MIRROR Nina Hagen regrets the TV scandal with Angela Merkel in 1992: "I just got a listless look" Article by Alexander Preker • Yesterday at 15:17 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. Nina Hagen regrets the TV scandal with Angela Merkel in 1992: "I just got a listless look" 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 her appearance on a talk show with the CDU politician in the early 1990s, so she tells the "Augsburger Allgemeine". "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 Sat.1 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 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 attracted attention several times in television programs with at least eccentric behavior, with loud freaks - and was probably invited partly because of that: as a guest with a high riot probability. She had already caused quite a stir in 1979 when she demonstrated masturbation techniques on an Austrian talk show. 2005 came in "Menschen bei Maischberger" there was a violent controversy with the left-wing politician Jutta Ditfurth ("I think it's terrible what this fat woman is doing to me. Jutta Ditfurth, you're a stupid, stupid cow"). < a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZnDfejypQ">And two years later there was also a scandal at Maischberger, when Hagen talked 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.«