Politics & Power Quote by Nina Hagen

There is a deliberately messy charisma to Nina Hagen describing herself as a “TV show host”: it’s not career confusion so much as a mission statement. Hagen came up in a Europe where music, media, and politics were never cleanly separated, and her punk-era persona has always treated the stage as a broadcast tower. In that light, the line reads like an artist staking a claim on attention itself: if the culture is already a nonstop show, she’ll run her own segment and book the guests.

The specific intent is pragmatic. She’s not romanticizing activism; she’s describing a format. Talk to people. Put them on. Make the audience watch. Dropping “Greenpeace” alongside “interesting political things” and then pivoting to “artists, musicians and bands” collapses the usual hierarchy between protest and pop. The subtext: politics needs the same packaging and momentum as entertainment, and entertainment is already political whether it admits it or not.

What makes it work is the casual confidence of the comparison. “Like a TV show host” carries a wink and a warning. Hosts are connectors, but they’re also gatekeepers who control the frame. Hagen’s implying she can curate reality: spotlight causes, translate them into spectacle, and use celebrity gravity to drag viewers toward responsibility. Even her imperfect English (“interesing”) adds to the sense of immediacy. This isn’t a polished manifesto; it’s punk logistics: build a platform, invite the chaos, keep the feed live.