New Confessions of a Legend
For many, Nina Hagen is »the Queen of Punk«; at the beginning of her career as a musician, she was the »ultimate provocateur«. In her autobiography, which she now presents in an updated and significantly expanded edition, Nina Hagen writes exactly as she sings: without a safety net, thrilling, provocative, and ruthlessly authentic. She speaks unadorned about herself and her fast-paced life on the border between genius and madness. Nina Hagen tells of her childhood in East Berlin, her stepfather Wolf Biermann, and how she discovered punk for herself in London. Her history is a wild road movie in which she encounters love, drugs, and loneliness. But it is also a spiritual journey, the most exciting experience of which lies not in excess and rock ’n’ roll, but in her encounter with God.
»Nina’s life story is a history of near-death experiences, of tears of despair in which she almost drowns. She recounts the wrong turns and the angels poetically or in a brash tone. (...) A journey between sense and madness, with love and hate, lust for life and the pull of death; it would have sufficed for at least 23 lives. The fact that Nina survived can pass as proof of God’s existence. That is how she sees it.« Matthias Neumann, Die ZEIT (on the original edition)
