Christian Lorenz

Christian Lorenz (2013)

Christian "Flake" Lorenz (born November 16, 1966 in East Berlin ) is a German musician and keyboard player in the band Rammstein . Previously, he was a member of the punk band Feeling B .

Life

Lorenz grew up with his parents - his father was an engineer at VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow "Friedrich Ebert" (EAW), his mother at the Humboldt University and also worked as a journalist - and his brother three years older in what was then independent district Prenzlauer Berg (now the district of Pankow ) on. His nickname "Flake" arose in childhood, which he has kept to this day. According to his own information, he has been called that since he was five years old, based on a character from the animated film Wickie and the strong men . However, since the program - an adaptation of a series of children's books by Runer Jonsson that appeared in 1963 - was first broadcast in Germany in 1974, the origin is not clear.

The musician describes his school days as difficult because he stuttered and was teased by classmates and locked in dumpsters. He first attended the primary school on Heinrich-Roller-Strasse, which was only a few hundred meters away from his parents' apartment. In fifth grade he met Paulo San Martin from Chile and made friends with him. The friendship continues to this day, the former school friend works as a band and production assistant at Rammstein .

Up to the 10th grade Lorenz attended the POS in Prenzlauer Berg, from September 1st 1983 he did an apprenticeship as a toolmaker in the VEB Rationalisierung Berlin on Schönhauser Allee . Originally, he wanted to become a doctor, which he was denied because his academic achievements made him out of the question for a high school graduate career. In addition, the school principal complained to his parents that he was being condescending. The popular statement that he is still called "Doctor Lorenz" by fans and bandmates because of his unfulfilled career aspiration, he corrected in 2017 in his book Today is the world's birthday :

“I had given the name by mistake much earlier when we were supposed to enter a name for our GEMA membership. I thought you had to do something original. Since then, Doctor Lorenz or something has been written on all records. If I would have taken my name once. Now everyone wants to know why I call myself a doctor. It's really true that as a kid I wanted to be a surgeon. But I also wanted to be a firefighter, pilot, inventor or musician. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

After completing his training, he was already so active as a musician that he no longer practiced the profession he had learned and only took on occasional jobs, on the one hand to supplement the rather manageable fees that Feeling B received at least in the initial phase, but also to not to be accused of violating the obligation to work for amateur musicians of an anti-social lifestyle and therefore to be arrested. Until the fall of the Wall, he withdrew from being drafted into the National People's Army by repeatedly getting sick leave from doctors and describing himself to the military district command as mentally unstable.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the introduction of the Deutsche Mark , his earnings as a musician were no longer sufficient, according to Lorenz, so that he accepted a state-sponsored ABM activity . He founded a non-profit association with friends and operated, among other things, an art gallery that was only moderately successful, in which he and his colleagues exhibited their own paintings. In addition, from 1990 he worked in the emerging Kunsthaus Tacheles , for which a group of creative people had occupied an old department store building on Oranienburger Strasse. There he helped with the dismantling and installation of a theater, worked as a director in the West Berlin Schillertheater and, as an ABM worker, was involved in the expansion and reopening of a cinema. Later he tried to earn money by buying and selling used western cars. At the age of 30, when he received unemployment benefits from the state, he officially became a self-employed musician as a member of the Rammstein band.

In later years, together with a business partner, he opened a vintage car rental company in Berlin, to which, as a car fan, he brought in numerous of his own vehicles. After financial difficulties and differences with his business partner, however, he left the company.

Musical career

According to his own statements, Lorenz discovered his love for music by chance. At his own request, he received piano lessons from the third grade after hearing a classmate play very skillfully. He was registered at the Prenzlauer Berg music school and initially practiced without his own piano. To learn the notes, he glued together strips of paper on which he had drawn keys. His parents finally bought a used piano for 100 marks .

When he was in hospital for a long time after a car accident at the age of ten and had to stay home after he was released, his father, a great jazz, country and blues fan, gave him a minet cassette recorder. With this device, Lorenz took in the years to music from the (Western) radio on, among other things, the program of his Honecker known -Witze RIAS -Moderators Lord Knud also broadcast later music for the recorder of the East German radio station DT64 , in which first one side of an East German band was played and then that of an international group. Among other things, he got a recording of music by the Rolling Stones , which inspired him. This gave rise to his desire to play in a band. He began to listen to his father's blues records and thought up his own pieces, which he and a friend recorded on cassette to play for others.

He had his first appearance in May 1981 at the age of 14 at a rock school festival at EOS Heinrich Schliemann in Prenzlauer Berg, which his brother Peter attended. He rehearsed four pieces with his Chilean school friend and his Bulgarian acquaintance, and borrowed the school's own electric piano for the performance . When the two "bandmates" quit shortly before the performance due to stage fright, he persuaded the drummer of another group performing there to accompany him during his audition. His performance ended after three pieces: one with electric piano and drums, one with only electric piano - according to Lorenz, a large part of the audience and the drummers had left the hall - and a short blues that he played on his harmonica. Lorenz wrote about this appearance in his biography published in 2015:

“I went off the stage and tried to be invisible. Even my best friends found it difficult to say anything appreciative to me. One only said that his buddy had asked him: Tell me, what kind of cool guy is this guy, he's nothing embarrassing. I was half reconciled with my performance (...). At least I dared to perform. And I noticed what an indescribable feeling it was to be on stage. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

Lorenz then played in the Christian rhythm and blues band Hilflos (later renamed Tedeum ), which rehearsed in a church in Berlin-Pankow . Since he did not own an electric piano, his rehearsal consisted of watching the rest of the members play and practicing what he had heard on the piano at home. For concerts he borrowed an instrument from a friend for 50 marks each. When the group broke up, he tried to find a new band. But this turned out to be difficult because he still did not have a portable instrument. Then his parents bought him for 2000 (East) Marks - according to Lorenz the two and a half times his father's monthly salary - a used world champion organ of the type TO 200/5, which was only slightly lighter than a piano. According to Lorenz, four people could wear them.

Entry into Feeling B

In 1983, at the age of 16, he became a member of the band Feeling B . The contact was made through the Berlin drummer Alexander Kriening  - this was the very drummer who had accompanied Lorenz for a song two years earlier at his brother's school festival. There he played with Kriening , but first and foremost with the singer Aljoscha Rompe and with his later Rammstein band colleague, the guitarist Paul Landers , and from 1990 also with the new guest drummer Christoph Schneider , who is also a Rammstein musician today .

In Feeling B , Lorenz was not only supposed to play melodies with his world champion organ, but above all to take on the role of a bassist - this was missing in the band at this time and Lorenz's organ had the technical requirements to separate the lower octaves as bass tones . The music - a kind of fun punk  - made a big impression on Lorenz, then 16 years old:

“The music was very fast and extremely powerful. I didn't even notice that the singer had problems with the rhythm and especially with finding his way into it. I thought it must be like that. I just understood that he was singing in German, or rather, shouting something in German. He was wriggling like crazy and I was thrilled. I had never met such a person. It was all so very different from the bands I knew. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

The simultaneous playing of the bass notes with the left hand and the playful keyboard melodies with the right hand that have been characteristic of the band since then remained mostly Lorenz's double part in the following ten years - and explains the stoic face with which he often looks back at Feeling B concerts is described:

“I had to play the fast eighth notes with one finger. After all, I couldn't play with two fingers like a real bass player or even make an alternating strike with the pick, but had to hack the keys with one finger like a sewing machine. That's why I never fidgeted at concerts with this band and looked so indifferent as if I was writing a math test. I had to concentrate fully on the high pace, on maintaining the extremely high pace. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

Together with his band colleagues, Lorenz applied for a state license to play for amateur bands. While waiting for the so-called classification  - some of the dates were given a long time in advance - he performed illegally with Feeling B during the breaks between groups of friends, including the bands Freygang and Pardon. After Feeling B had mastered the classification with a high special level and was thus allowed to plan concerts freely, singer Rompe  - who had a Swiss passport and enjoyed travel freedom  - bought a Casio synthesizer for Lorenz in West Germany , which he paid off over the following years.

Although the band deliberately stayed at an amateur level and, according to Lorenz, only played a few concerts due to their uninhibited consumption of alcohol, Feeling B achieved a high level of awareness in the GDR. The group performed throughout the GDR, played regularly in front of several thousand visitors at a privately organized blues and punk open air called the Steinbrücken Festival and was one of the three GDR bands that played alongside international musicians such as The Wedding on July 2, 1988 Present and Jonathan Richmann performed in the East Berlin Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle . As a member of Feeling B, Lorenz became a film protagonist in the DEFA production whispering & screaming - a rock report and then recorded the GDR's first official punk album with the band on the state label Amiga .

In 1993 Lorenz traveled together with Rompe, Landers, the guest drummer at the time, Schneider and the band technician Andreas Vadda Vater (now Rammstein technician) as Feeling B to the southeast of the USA and performed some - only moderately successful - concerts there.

The band broke up just a few months after their trip to the USA at the end of 1993 due to different musical ideas. Lorenz, Landers and the now retired guest drummer Christoph Schneider had previously pre-produced a fourth album, which singer Rompe rejected after his return from vacation and was therefore no longer published. When Paul Landers announced his departure after a Christmas concert in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei , Lorenz joined him - albeit hesitantly.

Musical side projects

Lorenz had made friends with his band colleague Landers during the Feeling B years, until, according to Lorenz 'statements, both were "only known as a double pack". Both played in parallel in various other GDR bands - sometimes even in the same groups at different times. Due to Landers' intensive production activities and the lack of good keyboard players in East Berlin at that time, Lorenz was also active as a guest musician with bands like the others , Happy Straps , Die 3 von der Gasstelle , Freygang and Die Firma .

With Landers, Lorenz also started the musical side project Die Magdalene Keibel Combo . There Flake took over large parts of the vocal parts. In this formation, which was officially a duo with guest musicians, he and his colleague released the album Das Gemeine Reitbein in 1988. Some parts of the song Klaus Kinski published on it can be found today in a modified form in the Rammstein song Heirate mich .

Lorenz was also a member of the Kashmir groups and Frigitte Hodenhorst Mundschenk ; the latter was a joint project with the writer and performance artist Matthias BAADER Holst , the ornament & crime musician Bo Kondren and the musician Klaus Maus . Among other things, the formation made appearances at exhibition openings, where it attracted attention because the members distributed gasoline on the floor and set it on fire - an effect that was adapted by Lorenz's new band Rammstein in the mid-1990s .

Other projects in which he was involved were called Parts for Millions and Metabolism  - here he played with Frank “Trötsch” Tröger, singer of the system-critical band Die Firma . He also started the electronics project Flake and Piet . According to Lorenz, the latter was again a joint effort with Feeling-B colleague Paul Landers, from which the Goessel tape was created in 1991 with titles such as Der Damenschneider or Granatendub .

With his former Chilean school friend and other like-minded people, Lorenz said he once appeared at an exhibition in Dresden at the end of the 1990s under the name Dub-Labor , but kept his identity as a Rammstein musician a secret.

Rammstein

In 1994 Lorenz became a keyboardist with the band Rammstein . After Feeling B had gradually dissolved between the end of 1993 and May 1994, Landers persuaded him to come to the rehearsals for the new band project, in which he was already firmly involved. Lorenz, who did not want to come to terms with the end of Feeling B and who reproached Landers for leaving, came along, but initially showed great aversion to the music that was being played there. His former Feeling-B colleague told the TV broadcaster MTV in 2004 :

“I think Flake was just too dull. Flake secretly wanted to go to the theater, (...) a synthesizer, sit in the corner: 'Hello --- dudelig!', So make theater music. (...) We just took him away - tore him out of his corduroy pants! "

- Paul Landers, rhythm guitarist Rammstein

In addition, Lorenz initially found no access to the majority of the other five musicians. He later said in an interview book:

“I only got involved when the band was around. It took me about a year to decide for myself whether I wanted to play with Rammstein or not, I only took part as a guest. (...) The Schwerin gang (note: Oliver Riedel , Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe ) had taken Schneider as their drummers. (...) I hardly had an emotional relationship with Schneider. I didn't get along with plaice (note: Richard Z. Kruspe). I was scared of Olli, I thought he was a bit strange. I only liked Till. I had lived with Paul for eight years, he got on my nerves terribly. (...) I would have been happy if I hadn't seen him for a year. "

- Christian "Flake" Lorenz

In the end he agreed to cooperate and became a permanent member of the band.

In addition to his keyboard parts, Lorenz also took on entertaining show parts for the band's live performances early on. One of the first was the rammdance , which the rather lean musician - compared to his bandmates - performed at the Bizarre Festival 1996 for the Rammstein song Weißes Fleisch, among others , and which attracts attention with its jagged, rather inharmonious movements.

One of the most common effects is driving flakes with a rubber boat on the hands of the audience. The band also celebrated this part of the show at the 1997 Hurricane Festival , then and in the following years, first to the song Seemann , later also to Heirate mich and Stripped , since love is there for everyone -Tour to the song Haifisch . Flake, however, temporarily surrendered this rubber dinghy post to Oliver Riedel and Paul Landers after a few painful falls and quite serious injuries .

Since the world tour for the album Reise, Reise, a stay in an oversized saucepan has been one of Lorenz's show parts : For the song Mein Teil , which deals with the deed of the so-called cannibal von Rotenburg, Armin Meiwes , Lorenz takes place in a live performance for this purpose welded container, which is heated by singer Lindemann with a flame thrower in the course of the song contribution. Lorenz jumps out to the finale of the song and runs - with exploding and smoking bangers on the stage clothes - across the stage.

A similarly hot show effect took Lorenz with the beginning of love is for everyone tour: For the video and the live show to the single I hurt you let Lindemann an iron bathtub welding, in which he called the rebellious during the song performance and throws aggressively appearing flake into it and - according to Paul Landers - then poured molten metal over it.

A job that Flake doesn't always like - but he takes on these parts for practical reasons, as he said in 2005 in the course of the documentation "Anaconda on the Net":

“As a keyboard player, I'm not tied to the stage. I can just go out and do something wherever I'm not playing. The guitarists have their guitars - until they have left them (...) and have the transmitter off - they can't get into the boat or do faxes like that. (...) And: We make heavy metal music where a keyboard is not so important is. There are a lot of places where I just don't play. And if I don't play, I don't have to stand around. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

One of the show performances from the time of the second album Sehnsucht brought him to prison in 1999 together with Rammstein singer Till Lindemann in the United States following a concert in Worcester , Massachusetts : He and Lindemann were accused of displaying lascivious and indecent behavior Song bend over In this song Lindemann simulates anal intercourse with Lorenz using a dildo and squirts with milk in front of Lorenz, who is crouching down. According to Lorenz, he and the bandmate sat in jail for about five hours. They then had to answer in court and received a six-month suspended sentence and a fine. However, this experience did not prevent her from repeating this performance in the course of her Made-in-Germany tour from the beginning of November 2011.

Lorenz in his stage costume (2009)

The fact that he has not regretted his decision to join the band Rammstein is underpinned by a statement he made in 2009 during the making-of video for the video Pussy about Rammstein :

"I don't know anything now that I wouldn't do for the band."

- Christian Flake Lorenz

The SZ-Magazin, which accompanied the band on the US tour for the album Made in Germany in 2012 and published a special issue, quoted from an email that the Canadian author Michael Slade sent to Paul Landers after a concert. He compared the band with characters by the science fiction author HG Wells and certified Lorenz with a special status:

“I've seen them all, Paul, I even saw Presley appear on the Ed Sullivan Show . Then the Beatles, then Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Cramps. But what are you guys? You are something else. Europe has arrived. (...) You are a crystal clear, really overwhelming experience: Below you five, the dark Morlocks. And above Flake: the Eloi ! "

- Michael Slade

Private life

Lorenz has several children and has been married to the artist Jenny Rosemeyer since 2008 . He lives in Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, but also owned a property in the village of Kreuzbruch (Liebenwalde) in Brandenburg for several years . The farm was subject to an arson attack in November 2011 - a jealous local resident set fire to a barn on the premises because he believed the property manager was having an affair with his partner.

Thanks to his father, who always walked long distances with his family, Lorenz is an avid hiker. However, this also meant that he was arrested as a young adult. In 1986 he was arrested in the vicinity of Leutenberg in Thuringia while hiking with friends - in view of their luggage, he and his companions were accused of planning to flee the GDR . According to Lorenz, the young people were taken to a prison in Saalfeld / Saale for several days , but were then released again, while, according to Lorenz, three people of the same age from Lorenzschule vocational school had used the arrest of the group to actually flee.

Lorenz describes himself as hypochondriac . He developed numerous fears early on, including public transport, closed rooms, darkness and a lot of people. He tried to combat his fear of flying (now defeated by his own account) at times by carrying the wreckage of a crashed airplane in his hand luggage because, as he wrote in his biography "The Key Fucker", it was statistically virtually impossible that a piece of airplane crashes twice. He later decided not to do it again, as it kept causing delays in security checks at the airports.

Others

Lorenz's older brother Peter is a comic book artist and publishes his works under the name of Herr Auge Lorenz . The drawings in the booklet of the second Feeling B album We'll get you all are from him. Peter Lorenz is active in the Renate comic library in Berlin  - by his own account the only one of its kind in Germany - and in the fanzine of the same name, but has also led youth workshops in schools, universities and memorials such as Bergen-Belsen and Ravensbrück . Peter Lorenz was also active in a band at times in the 1990s, he was the singer of the Golden Acker Rhythm Kings , a fun cover band that spoiled English-language songs in German. At a concert in the alternative club naTo in Leipzig in 1994 he and his bandmates let the then unknown new group of his younger brother Flake appear as the opening act - it was the first official Rammstein concert.

Literary work

In 2015 Lorenz's autobiographical work The Keyfucker: What I Can Remember So was published by Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf . In 2017, S. Fischer Verlag published Lorenz's second book Today has a birthday about his time as a Rammstein musician. Both works have features of a picaresque novel .

• Flake: The keyfucker. What I can remember Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-439-0 .
• Flake: Today is the world's birthday. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 .

Radio & television

In 2011, the director Annekatrin Hendel portrayed Christian “Flake” Lorenz in her 43-minute documentary Flake - my life , which was created in cooperation with ZDF and arte . This was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2012 .

In 2015 Flake made a guest appearance on Radio Eins . He was represented in the "Freundlichen Takeover", in which musicians like Moby , the Pet Shop Boys , Jean Michel Jarre and Apocalyptica make radio.

Since May 9, 2017, he has hosted the program Die Sendung on Radio Eins every second Tuesday of the month . Flake dedicated his first issue to the topic of "Death", which was framed with biographical anecdotes, intimate thoughts and the artist's favorite music. Other topics were "Books", "Hans im Glück", "German bands that sing in English", "Harmony", "Family", "Humor music", "Maiden names", "Pfeifieder", "Animals", "Radio", " Double album "," Teamwork "," School bands "," Bands that accompany us "and" Rock songs with a piano ". The podcast is subtitled "Flake. Des Schlüsselfickers Podcast".

In November 2017 Flake was a guest at the Berlin undertaker Eric Wrede and his internet format "The End: The Podcast on Life and Death". This 11th episode was recorded in a funeral home.

He took part in the last broadcast of " Schulz & Böhmermann ", ZDFneo , which was broadcast on December 3, 2017. Other participants were Sibylle Berg , LeFloid and Seyran Ateş .

Flake was interviewed at the radio station MDR Kultur on February 18, 2018 under the motto "From keyfucker to book author".

On October 12, 2018, a live reading of "Today is the world's birthday" was recorded in Cologne for the radio station 1Live and broadcast in the series "1LIVE Stories".

In April 2020 Flake was seen as a guest on the arte show "Hope @ Home". In this format, in addition to a few reading samples under the direction of Daniel Hope and Christoph Israel, he performed the Feeling B classic "Langeweile".

In May 2020, the Franco-German broadcaster arte broadcast an episode of the format " Through the night with ... ", in which Flake spent the evening together with Joey Kelly .

Web links

Commons : Christian Lorenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian Lorenz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• spiegel.de: Ostpunk: "I miss the GDR" ( one day , February 18, 2008)
• Rammstein keyboardist Christian Lorenz: "As far as sex is concerned, there wasn't much going on". Interview in the taz on May 3, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Feeling B: green & blue. Book accompanying the CD, chapter Christa Lorenz: Close to the border. Motor Music 2007, catalog number MOTO7952, p. 22.
2. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink. Punk in the east. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-418-3 , p. 117.
3. ↑ dtv.de: Runer Jonsson , accessed on September 20, 2017
4. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink. Punk in the east. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-418-3 , p. 116.
5. ↑ Flake: The Button Fucker - What I Can Remember. 2nd edition, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-439-0 , p. 109 ff.
6. ↑ Who is good on earth during his lifetime - Rammstein - With Germany's largest cultural export on tour in America. Online version of special issue from SZ-Magazin 27/2012, p. 30; accessed on January 22, 2017
7. ↑ ^{a b} Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink. Punk in the east. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-418-3 , p. 135.
8. ↑ Feeling B: green & blue. Book accompanying the CD, chapter Christa Lorenz: Close to the border. Motor Music 2007, catalog number MOTO7952, p. 26.
9. ↑ Flake: Today is the world's birthday. 1st edition, S. Fischer Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 , p. 263.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink. Punk in the east. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-418-3 , p. 139.
11. ↑ Flake: The Button Fucker - What I Can Remember. 2nd edition, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-439-0 , p. 258 ff.
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20. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink. Punk in the east. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-418-3 , pp. 137ff.
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29. ↑ Flake: The Button Fucker - What I Can Remember. 2nd edition, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-439-0 , p. 186.
30. ↑ ^{a b} Flake: The button fucker - What I can remember. 2nd edition, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-439-0 , p. 192.
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43. ^ Rammstein - Mein Teil (Live France 2005). Retrieved January 23, 2017 . 
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