Hatschiwaldera Since it is the cold season, and we are all soon going to die from bird flu, here is a nice piece of music for the occasion, by Nina Hagen (Warning: Clicking that link may damage your web browser and your senses) with Fritzens Dampferband: Hatschi-Waldera (MP3) This song is another musical gem from the former GDR (aka East Germany), recorded before Nina Hagen moved to the West, played punk music, became world famous, and started talking about UFOs. By the way, Fritzens Dampferband featured Achim Mentzel on guitar, who later went on to become a hyperactive and frequently ridiculed host of a really bad German "folk music" TV show. If you don't know Achim, here is a YouTube video of him in action, singing and jumping around, before being looped and ridiculed by his arch-nemesis Oliver Kalkofe. (Actually, the two are now good friends.) You can hear more early Nina on the CD Was Denn: Hits '74-'95. Or grab the classic Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen from my earlier post on music in the GDR.