German Hell-Raiser Nina Hagen pens book Jesus

BERLIN (AFP) - Pioneer German punk and scandal queen Nina Hagen wrote a book about Jesus, "she said on its website on Thursday. Former Hell-Raiser, now 54, she had a long way from the atheism of his youth to come in communist East Germany, where she was rebelling against the regime and began his musical career. "She did say more than the usual mix of sex, drugs and rock and roll," a statement from her publisher Droemer Knaur on the book "Confessions: My path to God," published on its website. "Nina tells how she, at an early age in an atheist, came to a fascinating but forbidden to be called God. It takes the reader on a wild road movie in which she experiences in a demonic Indian ashram. "On the way they looked in love, drugs and death in the eye. But most of all she met God." The book will be published in March. Hagen told the Bild newspaper Thursday that she had been baptized in August and wanted to share with readers the joy of finding Jesus. "Baptism saved my life," she said. "I was in front of evil, dass" Hagen ran in Germany in 1976 after the expulsion of his stepfather, the activist singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann. From there she landed in London, like punk burst onto the music scene. for loud, uninhibited performance acquaintances, she courted controversy with stunts such as doing on a television talk show to masturbate. In recent years there has been the voice of the film, released an album of swing music and integrated Christian songs in his live act.