Knife (Lindemann)
Messer is the first collection of poems by the German poet and singer Till Lindemann , published in 2002 . It was published by Eichborn Verlag .
background
In 1995 Gert Hof was looking for a suitable text for a concert intro by the band Rammstein , he asked Lindemann. (Quote from Lindemann: " I then brought him five or six things at my own discretion. ") In " packs of ten and twenty " Lindemann hesitantly showed what he had written independently over the past 15 years. Hof decided to turn the 1000 poems into a book. Hof provided Messer with a foreword and photographs by Lindemann that he and photographer Jens Rötzsch had taken. According to Hof, the anthology contains “ explosives full of uncompromising ”.
Themes
Beauty and, in contrast, ugliness , are u. a. Main motifs of the anthology. Examples of this are through thick and thin , I know and my mother is blind , and parallels can be drawn with the Rammstein songs Morgenstern and Schwarzes Glas .
Family complexes are covered in In the Cemetery , Grandmother , My Mother Is Blind , Knife, and For Bad Parents . At this point it should be added that Lindemann dedicated the anthology to his father.
As in many of the songs published as part of the Rammstein project, Lindemann deals with numerous bloodthirsty or generally offensive subjects, so deliberately? , In the cemetery , Big in Japan , Grandmother , Girl dead , Nebel (not to be confused with the Rammstein song of the same name) and So the child in need lied .
Subsequent processing in Rammstein works
Nele was later used in parts of the track B ******** from the 2009 album Liebe ist für alle da use. Parts of the poem Sautod became the song Waidmanns Heil , which appeared on the same album.
criticism
- Kolja Mensing (November 20, 2002): “ Rhyme dich or I'll whip you: Of course you think of Rammstein's lyrics, dirty, pathetic and made with a hammer. Bend down, meter! Till Lindemann would rather keep his band out of his poems. Music is a 'straitjacket', he says. Writing poetry is like 'coming out of the cage'. [...] Till Lindemann is a poet whose every word is believed. And that happens rarely enough. "
- Peter Disch (December 4, 2002): “ Poems like this easily qualify for the Ene Mene Mu League. At the other end of the scale are texts like "Auf dem Friedhof" - free in form and with a mysterious whisper [...]
In between lies the wide field of despair, longing, loneliness, sex and violence, which already Rammstein scandals and headlines brought. The fans will love it. The opponents hate. "
- Thorsten Stegemann (2004): " When Lindemann creates his obligatory blood baths and strides in the same turns over torn bodies, broken hearts, festering brains and foreheads or all those hopes that have been shamed on the fatalistic border wall, then - also as a result of successively declining originality - even the most disinterested observer gradually becomes tired. That is - insofar as Hof has to be agreed - certainly more gratifying than the tearful navel gazes of a new lyrical inwardness or the verbal impotence of politically correct phrases. On the other hand, it does not serve any book to the advantage if its qualities have to be distilled out of the inconveniences of other publications. "
Footnotes
- ↑ Peter Disch: Till Lindemann: «Knife. Poems ». netzeitung.de, archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; accessed on December 17, 2013 (German).
- ^ German National Library: Result of the search for: "965546136". Retrieved on May 9, 2014 (German).
- ↑ Thorsten Stegemann: Messer poems and photos by Till Lindemann. Review by Thorsten Stegemann from titel-magazin, 2004 :. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 6, 2013 ; accessed on December 17, 2013 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Rosenfelder: Something with the scissor hands. January 31, 2003 · A volume of poetry by the "Rammstein" singer Till Lindemann. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 31, 2003, accessed on May 3, 2014 (German).
- ↑ Kolja Mensing : A verse burns . In: The daily newspaper . November 20, 2002 ( taz.de [accessed March 30, 2019]).
