Andrea Haugen (born Andréa Meyer; 6 July 1969 – 13 October 2021), also known under her artist names of Aghast, Hagalaz' Runedance, Andréa Nebel, Nebel and Nebelhexë, was a German musician, model and author.

Career

Modelling

Haugen worked as a model in London, but soon rejected it as a "shallow scene". She was later a

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and participated in

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shows.

Music

Haugen cited her influences as the

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, and The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. She released her first music as Aghast in 1995, then from 1996 to 2002 under the name Hagalaz' Runedance. From 2003 she worked under the name of Nebelhexë, releasing three further albums, and also used the name Andréa Nebel and released electronic horror-mood music as Aghast Manor.

Writing

Haugen began writing in 1995.Nebelhexë
on Myspace. She wrote film scripts, both horror and satire. Many of her social-critical comments were printed in alternative magazines and also in Norwegian tabloids and magazines; she had a column titled "Seriously - The Things That Irritate Nebelhexë" in a Norwegian gothic magazine. She published an

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titled ''Simply Exceptional – How to make it your Way!''. She also wrote Gothic and surreal poetry, and in 2011 released a

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CD to accompany her poetry anthology ''The Dark Side of Dreaming''. A

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, originally with Anton LaVey's

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and later an earth-centred Germanic pagan, Haugen criticised what she viewed as

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religions that inhibit people's inner nature. She published a book about Germanic spirituality and

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, ''Die alten Feuer von Midgard'' (English edition ''The Ancient Fires of Midgard''). In 2012 she expressed frustration at some journalists' misconstruing song lyrics of hers as being about "witches in the wood, Nazism, nature, or pollution of the environment" when they were "relatively clearly" about "incest, a friend's suicide, child abuse, or loneliness".

Personal life and death

Haugen was previously married to guitarist Tomas Haugen; they had a daughter. She lived in the United Kingdom and Norway; she was living in

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when she was murdered at the age of 52 in the

Kongsberg attack On 13 October 2021, a man attacked eight people with various weapons – including a bow and arrow – at locations in Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway, a town about southwest of the capital city Oslo. Five people were killed, and three others were in ...

s on 13 October 2021.

Discography

Aghast

* ''Hexerei im Zwielicht der Finsternis'', CD/PD 1995

Hagalaz' Runedance

* ''When the Trees Were Silenced'', 7" 1996 * ''The Winds That Sang of Midgard’s Fate'', CD 1998 * ''Urd – That Which Was'', MCD/Picture disc 1999 * ''On Wings of Rapture'', CD single 2000 * ''Volven'', CD/LP/Picture disc 2000 * ''Frigga’s Web'', CD/LP 2002

Nebelhexë

* ''Laguz – Within the Lake'', CD 2004 * ''Essensual'', CD 2006 * ''Dead Waters'', CD 2009 * ''Don't Kill The Animals'', EP, 2009, with US artist

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Andréa Nebel

* ''The Dark Side Of Dreaming'', CD 2011

Aghast Manor

* ''Gaslights'', CD 2012 * ''Penetrate'', CD 2013

Guest appearances

– ''

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'' 1994 (credited as 'Andrea Meyer'). *

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– ''

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'' 1996

Bibliography

* ''Understanding the Northern Myths and Traditions'' (2000) * ''Dark Side of Dreaming – poems and short stories'' * ''Walking With The Night – a book of shadows'' * ''Feed My Shadow Nature'' * ''Simply Exceptional'' * ''The Shadow Of Eloise'' * ''The Neighbour'' * ''The Body In The Skeleton House'' * ''Behind Church Walls'' * ''Das Erbe der Familie Rimbaud''

References

External links

Nebelhexë homepage

Official myspace entry
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