Nina Hagen is my High Priestess. - Yes, "What it is" is "Was es ist." I have always preferred that one in German. I love it when she comes out with 2 of the same recordings- one in English, one in German. LOvE that! Nina is so cute and playful, she makes me smile- even on the darkest of days, Nina brings me light. I love you Nina, you are my treasure.

She is a living (Shiva-esque) goddess & unique talent. Germany needs a Nina Hagen Museum !!!

Nina Hagen is AWESOME!!!

Nina is an AMAZING singer, performer and artist. It takes a certain sense of humor to fully apreciate Nina Hagen. She is'nt for dolts who have an 'American Idol type mentality concerning "talent" and admire bland homogenous performers like Avril Levine or Beyonce and their ilk.

This is SOOOOO FABULOUS!!!! Love it!!!

I really love her. I don't know a word of German. She is great. I wish she would come to America.

aussagekräftiger text und ein toller rap aus den 80igern.....ich glaube auf der lp angstlos.....man muss den ganzen song hören....

I love her! So brilliant this one and if you don't get it, she doesn't give a shit!

God I wish I could see the entire interview.

この話し方は素晴らしいです。

She's funyy^^

this reminds me of "The Fifth Element"

Can someone in the know let me know the context of this video? I was just interested to know why Nina was doing Was Es Ist on TV about 20 years-ish after she released it. Or maybe, well, this is Nina after all. Perhaps there doesn't need to be a reason. :)

( contd. from below. This damn character count ) As a singer I realy dig how she can sing like an opera singer one moment THEN sound like a friging demon another moment! Thats realy incredible! like to see any of those 'American Idol cretins do that. And she also has a realy cooimage sense to top it off.

Hahaha that little laughter!

Classic moment there. You get over the tiny bits of weirdness and get entirely drawn into Nina's performance, only to have the shit scared out of you by the little freak out at the end. XD I don't know whether or not Nina's genius is on an equal level with her insanity, but there' clearly some genius in there somewhere.

She is a devotee of Krishna. Hari bol!

can someone that speakish da german pls translate? I've watched this clip a lot and know I'm missing out on some wicked lyrical prose :)

lieben wir sie denn nicht alle? die geschenke....ne - nina natürlich! ^^

Is she rapping? Sounds like it.

Phew!

WHAHAH OMG.. EINN GESCHENKKKK!! Hab mir hir so die comment dürch gekukt before das filmchen noch am ende war und dacht huh? Was denn Geschenk? Aber echt.. Nina is die hammar!

In german or in english?? I ask because this is german...

Ein GESCHEEEENk xD Die Frau ist einfach der Hammer !

Ein Gescheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenk!!!

Da war sie aber schon ein bisschen älter, vielleicht so... 45 oder so... aber irgendwie.. ist das ein bisschen anders als andere 45-jährige;-) ICH LIEBE SIEEEEE

zu geil, das mit dem geschenk^^XDDDD

is the first german,who actually can pronuance the "RRRRR" good, LOL.

Ja das mann ich tun!

Nina diva...sie ist noch wunderbach. Was es ist...jetz aufgepaBt !

hahahahahaa!!!!!! your right!!

Ja klar.

hahaha

sprecken ze crappy?

die ist voll heiß

Does anyone else find it funny that an Avril Lavigne fan is accusing a musician of being image over talent? Nina couldn't be any more musical - you clearly don't hear it, get it nor have any business posting that baloney here.