My part

My part
Rammstein
publication	July 26, 2004
length	4:52
Genre (s)	New German Hardness
Author (s)	Rammstein
Label	Universal Music
album	Journey, journey

Mein Teil is a song by the German new German hardship band Rammstein from their fourth studio album Reise, Reise . It was released as the first single on the album on July 26, 2004 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In other countries the single was released at a later date. The song is also included in the best-of album Made in Germany 1995-2011 .

According to keyboardist Flake, the basic musical idea comes from rhythm guitarist Paul Landers . The song was produced by Jacob Hellner and Rammstein himself.

reception

Mein Teil was nominated in 2006 for the 48th edition of the Grammy Awards in the category Best Metal Performance , but the song had to admit defeat to Slipknots Before I Forget .

The lyrics deal with the criminal case of Armin Meiwes , the so-called "cannibal of Rotenburg". The band came across the massive media exposure of this case in light of what they thought were more important issues such as: B. the Iraq war.

In addition to the album version, there is also the single version, which has a different beginning of the song. In this a male voice says:

"Looking for well-built 18 to 30-year-olds to slaughter - the master butcher"

- My part

In an interview, Paul Landers stated that this voice belongs to the band's bassist, Oliver Riedel . During the recording, he is said to have jokingly quoted the advertisement with which Armin Meiwes allegedly made contact with his victim. It is unclear whether this was actually the case.

"Because you are what you eat.
And you know what it is.
It is my part"

- My part

Flake reported in 2017 that the song initially had a different text, which was about the end of the world . Since he found this text to be intentionally malicious, he complained until singer and lyricist Till Lindemann wrote the current lyrics.

Music video

The video shows Christoph Schneider dressed as Armin Meiwes' mother. In the following scenes you can see how Till Lindemann , disfigured in the face by CGI , is first orally satisfied by a dark-skinned female angel, then also orally satisfied the angel equipped with a dildo and finally plucks its wings and eats it. The then erotic performance artist Luciana Regina mimed the angel. Then you see Flake Lorenz dancing ballet in a hallucinatory state. Paul Landers plays a madman in a tattered suit. Richard Kruspe is wrestling against a clone of himself in the video. The latter was portrayed by wrestler Ralph Piterek from the then second division club RV Thalheim . Oliver Riedel can be seen, scantily clad and painted white from head to toe, bending over on the floor. In between, five band members in their costumes attack each other in short sequences - only Christoph Schneider stayed outside - each other in a mud pool. The last scene shows how Schneider - again dressed as "mother" - comes to the surface from the Berlin subway station Deutsche Oper and leads the remaining band members like dogs on a leash.

The video was shot without a fixed storyboard following a suggestion by Flake. The band members improvised their scenes in a "black box" equipped with few or no props, without knowing beforehand which direction the other band members wanted to go. The idea was to be guided by spontaneous associations in a kind of butoh theater while the song was playing in the background.

The film was directed by Zoran Bihać , who was previously responsible for the video for the song Links 2-3-4 . The scenes were filmed on June 2 and 3, 2004 in the Arena Berlin in the Berlin-Alt-Treptow district and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on Bismarckstrasse.

The music video released in July 2004 sparked controversial media discussions.

In early 2006, Armin Meiwes' lawyer told the media that Meiwes was considering a lawsuit against the band because he felt his privacy rights had been violated. Nothing is known about the outcome of the media reports, according to which the lawsuit actually filed a few days later.

The stage show for the song includes, among other things, a man-sized saucepan with a built-in keyboard for Flake Lorenz sitting in it. Till Lindemann uses a microphone in the form of a butcher's knife and "heats" Lorenz and the pot with two different sized flame throwers.

The "dog walking scene" shown in the video was used again on the band's Made in Germany tour in 2011/2012. She was a determining element of the show for the intro to the song Bück dich . Here, too, drummer Christoph Schneider - with a blond curly wig and grotesquely made-up in his role as "Frau Schneider" - led four band members on a leash across a catwalk above the audience, while guitarist Kruspe played the synthesizer intro. The concert film Rammstein: Paris , released in 2017, was made in the course of this tour and also shows this scene.

Charts and chart placements

Chart placements Charts Top ranking Weeks Chart placements  Germany (GfK) 2 (10 weeks) 10  Austria (Ö3) 6th (10 weeks) 10  Switzerland (IFPI) 11 (10 weeks) 10  United Kingdom (OCC) 61 (3 weeks) 3

Annual charts Charts (2004) placement Annual charts (2004)  Germany (GfK) 55

Web links

• Music video for "Mein Teil" on YouTube
• Making-of for “Mein Teil” on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flake: Today is the world's birthday , p. 285, S. Fischer Verlag, 1st edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 .
2. ↑ Flake: Today is the world's birthday , p. 285, S. Fischer Verlag, 1st edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 .
3. ↑ ringen-thalheim.de/mmeldung/2004: Thalheimer wrestler in the new "Rammstein" video , July 19, 2004, accessed on May 27, 2018
4. ↑ Flake: Today is the world's birthday , p. 286, S. Fischer Verlag, 1st edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 .
5. ↑ Rammstein - Videos 1995 - 2012 , DVD 2, Making-of for Mein Teil , 2012 Universal Music Domestic Division
6. ↑ rammstein.de: History , accessed on July 4, 2017
7. ↑ metal.de: Rammstein: Kannibale sued Band , January 2006, accessed on July 4, 2017
8. ↑ laut.de: Rammstein - cannibals threaten with lawsuit , January 11, 2006, accessed on July 4, 2017
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
10. ↑ German annual charts 2004