Hermanus "Herman" Brood was a Dutch musician, painter, actor and poet. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch roc
Murals by Brood on a parking garage in Leidschendam
Brood's grave at Zorgvlied
Herman Brood Museum & Experience, Zwolle
Catharina "Nina" Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s an
Herman Brood
…the press about sex and drug use brought him into the Dutch public arena even more than his music. He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1979 film Cha-Cha. He is reputed to be the subject of her song "Herrmann Hiess Er" (English title "Herrmann Was His Name…
Hagen at the premiere of The Seventh Dwarf, September 2014
Hagen with Magdi Body, Manfred Krug, and Tatjana Archipowa, April 1976
Villa Carlshagen, a villa owned by the Hagen family that was confiscated by the Nazis, Potsdam, 2016