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Catharina "Nina" Hagen is a German singer and occasional actress. Nina Hagen was born in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans... Hagen , a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen , an actress and singer. Her paternal grandfather died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study ballet, and was considered an opera prodigy by the time she was nine. When Hagen was 11, her mother married Wolf Biermann, an anti-establishment singer-songwriter. Biermann's political views later influenced young Hagen. Hagen left school at age sixteen, and went to Poland, where she began her career. After that, she returned to Germany and joined the cover band Fritzens Dampferband . She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the "allowable" set lists during shows.
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