Paul Landers

Paul Landers (2011)

Paul Landers (* 9. December 1964 in East Berlin as Heiko Paul Hiersche ) is a German musician . He is the rhythm guitarist for the band Rammstein . Before that, he was a member of the GDR funpunk band Feeling B , which influenced the alternative music scene of the GDR between 1983 and the fall of the Wall in 1989 and recorded the first official punk album of the state-owned Amiga label shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall .

Life

Paul Landers was born as the son of the Slavists Anton and Erika Hiersche. His mother comes from Lyck in East Prussia, today Ełk in Masuria , Poland , his father from Böhmisch-Kahn , today Velké Chvojno , Czech Republic. Both had to leave their homeland after the Second World War and met during their studies in Halle (Saale) . Landers' parents were staunch socialists during the GDR era.

Landers grew up in the district of Berlin-Baumschulenweg , which belongs to the Treptow-Köpenick district. When he was eight years old, his parents went to Moscow with him and his sister three years older than him. His mother taught Russian at a college for foreign trade there, his father researched Soviet literature as a cultural scientist. After a year they returned to the GDR and lived again in the same East Berlin district.

After finishing school, Landers completed an apprenticeship as a radio and telecommunications mechanic in the VEB radio and telecommunications system construction on Storkower Strasse in East Berlin. During his apprenticeship he was assigned to various locations, including the VEB Bärensiegel Berlin , the Institute for Cosmos Research in Berlin-Adlershof , the VEB Elektrokohle in Berlin-Lichtenberg and even the switchboard in the FDJ central council building in Zollernhof , where he In a pause he wrote the lyrics for the later Feeling B song Am Horizont . There and at other locations he gained experience that aroused his first doubts about the meaningfulness of the GDR basic idea of public property , as many of his colleagues were wasteful and indifferent to raw materials and products.

After completing his training, he was already so active as a musician that he no longer practiced the profession he had learned. In order to meet the obligation to work in the GDR - amateur musicians were not allowed to play full-time there - he earned money with part-time jobs. Among other things, he worked as a stoker in the Treptow City Library . With a certificate from his music school, he escaped service in the NVA . Sick notes and a mailbox address helped him not to be confiscated until the end of the GDR.

At the age of 20 on the Baltic island of Hiddensee , he met Nikki Landers from Leipzig , who was two years his junior - he moved out of his parents' house, married her and took her surname. Some time before - according to his own statements, when he began to regularly go to band rehearsals in the Prenzlauer Berg district - he had swapped his first name Heiko with his second name Paul, but in the end he left out completely. His father uses the first name Heiko to this day.

The GDR band die other dedicated the song "Paul's Wedding" to Landers and his wife - inspired by the two's need to commit so early.

Landers lived with his wife in an illegally occupied apartment on Invalidenstrasse in Berlin . The marriage failed and he divorced at the age of 22. He then moved into a shared apartment at Fehrbelliner Strasse 9 with his band colleague Christian “Flake” Lorenz . According to their own statements, they had also initially occupied this apartment. They only received an official lease a few months later. Two houses down, at Fehrbelliner Straße 7, was the apartment of their band leader Aljoscha Rompe , in whose domicile the band Feeling B rehearsed from 1983.

In 1990, Landers became the father of today's actor and twocolors musician Emil Reinke , whose band was responsible for a remix for the single radio by Landers' band Rammstein in 2019 . The relationship with Reinke's mother ended after a few years, still in the early phase of the band Rammstein . Landers has been in a relationship with a hair and makeup artist since the late 1990s and has had a daughter with her since 2001.

Musical career

Landers during the LIFAD tour in Berlin (2009)

When Landers was 13, his parents arranged for him to take piano lessons like his older sister. After a short time he switched to the clarinet and finally to the guitar. At concerts by the Keks formation, he jotted down the movements in his memory and practiced them at home in front of the mirror. In the following years he registered at the Friedrichshain Music School in the dance music department for lessons on the electric guitar. He passed the entrance exam with an improvisation on the guitar. In addition to the guitar, Landers also plays drums in his spare time.

Years after the first great Rammstein successes, Landers classified his skills on his main instrument as follows:

“I haven't really learned to play guitar until today. Before I understood the classic rock fingering, I had to run to concerts a few times. "

- Paul Landers

Since the early eighties, Landers was active as a guitarist, but occasionally also with other instruments in bands or acted as a sound engineer for numerous other groups.

Feeling B

From 1983 to 1993 Landers part as a guitarist of Fun Punk band Feeling B to. Here he is one of the first occupants. The band achieved a high level of awareness within the GDR , although - despite a so-called state classification and the official permission to play issued on this basis - they never worked professionally and only worked commercially successfully after the reunification.

Feeling B essentially consisted of three musicians: Aljoscha Rompe , who was born in 1947 and is almost twice as old , Landers who was 18 when it was founded and Christian "Flake" Lorenz, who was two years younger .

Feeling-B founder Rompe got to know Landers through the band's first drummer, Alexander Kriening (with Rosa Extra from 1984 ). Kriening had already played with Rompe in his earlier combo Feeling 14 . In 1982 he and Landers started a conversation at a concert in the Plänterwald cultural park , and Landers then played his musical ideas to Kriening, who was the same age. When Rompe was looking for musicians for a new band a year later, Kriening remembered Landers. The first meeting of Landers and Rompe at the end of March 1983 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg made an impression on Landers, who grew up in a more sheltered living environment. After one of the first meetings he noted:

“Yesterday I was in the underworld with Kriening. We were with a musician, bald head, curly hair, purple cloth, disgusting, senseless screeching, (...). A punk band was rehearsing under his roof. I don't know if I really want to be a musician. (...) I felt like someone who comes to a children's home, far away from all friends. "

- Paul Landers, diary entry April 1, 1983

He quickly dismissed his doubts, however, because he was impressed by Rompe's apartment at Fehrbelliner Strasse 7 and his lifestyle as a commuter between East and West Berlin and because he was worried about missing out. He became the guitarist of Feeling Berlin , as the group initially called itself.

Only a few weeks later, Landers met the then 16-year-old Christian "Flake" Lorenz as a new Feeling B band colleague. Drummer Kriening recruited Lorenz in search of a replacement for the failed bassist Otto Leimer, or Bass Otto for short . Lorenz had only recently received his own world champion organ from his parents , which from a technical point of view was able to replace a bass. Landers and Lorenz became permanent musical companions in the course of the next band years, who were already seen as a duo in GDR times and are still direct band colleagues to this day - currently with Rammstein .

Kriening, who had brought the Feeling B members together, left the band in 1984 after a year and a half. All other drummers and other musicians who played in Feeling B from then on were hired as guests by Rompe, Lorenz and Landers and treated as such. Years later at Feeling B, Landers came into contact with a second of his later Rammstein colleagues: Drummer Christoph Schneider held this guest status between 1990 and 1993. Landers had got to know him in his second volume Die Firma and brought him to Feeling B. Schneider had not only positive experiences with Landers and his claim at the time. He said in a book about Feeling B in the early 2000s:

“It wasn't easy to get through a full Feeling B concert. You had to have enormous endurance and strength, they always played full throttle! (...) Paul had strict criteria, he liked to play the drums himself. He has often helped me by bluntly criticizing me. It can rob you of all your self-confidence. He still grumbles with me sometimes today. "

- Christoph Doom Schneider, Rammstein

The Company

In 1986, Landers joined the sometimes system-critical text group Die Firma , where he replaced the original guitarist Key Pankonin . There he played alongside the bassist and singer Tatjana Besson and the band's founder, singer and keyboardist Frank Trötsch Tröger. Both were unofficial employees of the Stasi , as it turned out in the early 1990s. Another band colleague of his was Faren Matern (bass, vocals) - he has been part of the tour crew as a lighting technician since Rammstein was founded and was one of two lighting directors of the festival tour in 2017.

On October 17, 1987, Landers, together with his company band colleagues and the West German group Element of Crime , gave a concert in front of 500 to 600 people in East Berlin's Zionskirche - other sources speak of 2,000 visitors - a concert by around 30 East and West Germans right-wing skinhead was ambushed .

In the course of the subsequent investigations into the incident, the Stasi ordered Landers to the People's Police Inspection Berlin-Mitte several times . In fact, in March 1987, after attending a large private party against him, the MfS had already opened the so-called IMS Vorlauf Paul , a kind of preliminary stage to the recruitment attempt. The party was spied on because there were people willing to leave the country, conscientious objectors, musicians from so-called other bands , which also included Lander's groups, and members of the church from below . In the months that followed, the MfS spied on him in his home and at work.

The ministry now used the attack to find out in discussions with Landers whether he could be recruited as an IM. However, he behaved uncooperatively, afterwards consciously shared the experience in his environment and no longer appeared after the fifth appointment, so that the recruitment attempt two years after the skinhead attack was given up with the following conclusion:

“From the beginning he showed a negative attitude towards the armed organs of the GDR. He was reluctant to answer the questions asked. Due to the lack of prospects, the IMS preliminary run (...) is archived. "

- Ministry of State Security, November 20, 1989

Landers played with Die Firma up to and including 1991 (parallel to his work with Feeling B), but was then asked by his band colleagues to choose one of the two bands due to lack of time. He then left the company and, according to his own statements, still worked as a sound engineer at the group's concerts. According to Landers, he had decided against staying with Die Firma because of the IM outings of his two band mates Besson and Tröger , as he found the singing of the system-critical lyrics from now on unreliable. His successor was his later Rammstein band colleague Richard Z. Kruspe .

The Magdalene Keibel Combo and other projects

Another musical side project of Landers was Die Magdalene Keibel Combo , with which he and his Feeling-B colleague Flake performed in the second half of the eighties. The band name was a joking allusion to the Ministry of State Security - located in East Berlin's Magdalenenstrasse - and to the Alexanderplatz police headquarters , which was located on Keibelstrasse until 1990, including a remand prison . The musical approach that Landers and his band colleague pursued in this formation was experimental: Here they both tried out the ideas that their Feeling B colleague Rompe rejected. The Keibel Combo also brought in guest drummers for their performances. But here they were not allowed to know the songs of the two before - in contrast to the work assignment of a drummer at Feeling B, from which preparation was expected in order to be able to keep up.

Landers said in an interview book about the Keibel Combo in the early 2000s :

“We worked with impromptu texts and tried to use technical innovations. We mostly played in small clubs and stuck contact mics on the windows, on the ground and on fire extinguishers. Once our drummer played with a fire extinguisher instead of a foot drum. (...) Feeling B was more drinking and hard music, the Keibel Combo was more faxing and technical scrambling. "

- Paul Landers

The journalist Ronald Galenza, co-editor of the aforementioned interview book, writes in his foreword about an appearance by the Keibel Combo , which he followed in the eighties in the House of Young Talents in East Berlin:

“On ordinary days, the socialist pulp rocked the conformist and discouraged. (...) One evening a strange-looking formation with a relational name was on the program: the Magdalene Keibel Combo ! (...) What great fun, Flake and Paul , who are well-known in the scene, entered the stage and staged orgiastic noise. Some groaned: 'Oh no, those crazy people again!' They actually offered meaningless, absurd noise, somewhere between squeaking Dada, rebellious futurism and clattering self-assertion irony. "

- Ronald Galenza, journalist and book author

With the Keibel Combo , Landers released the cassette "Das Gemeine Reitbein" in 1988. Parts of the song Klaus Kinski contained there appear clearly in the 1994 Rammstein song Heirate mich again - the fact that some late pieces from the previous bands of the various Rammstein members were taken over for the new group is evident from various interview statements, in this case by the band colleague Schneider , confirmed a few years later. According to Flake Lorenz, the Magdalene Keibel Combo has not officially dissolved to this day.

Landers was involved in numerous other music and art projects parallel to the aforementioned activities. According to his own statements, he was, among other things, the clarinetist in a project by the band Tacheles , which was created in connection with the Tacheles art house of the same name on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin. He was also for a while as a guitarist and clarinetist in Kashmir committed, took over in 1986 temporarily the guitar at the Happy Straps and was 1987/1988 second guitarist in the band BRONX 1987 seemed Landers also as a drummer and clarinetist in the multimedia theater project New Affaire and in the same year with the band Die Firma in the project Törnen - a mecklenburg environment. of the performance artist Holger Stark. Together with the musician and current mastering engineer Bo Kondren , he accompanied a poetry reading by Bert Papenfuß-Gorek under the name Doom Desaster and performed together with Kondren, the singer Klaus Maus and the writer and performance artist Peter ScHappy Wawerzinek .

In addition, Landers played the guitar temporarily in the band First Ass of his later Rammstein colleague Till Lindemann . He and Christian Flake Lorenz got to know him after Feeling B played whispering & SCHREIEN - a rock report in Lindemann's home town Hohen Viecheln for the shooting of the DEFA film . With First Ass , Landers released the album Saddle Up in 1992 as a guitarist - alongside Lindemann, his later Rammstein colleague Richard Z. Kruspe and the singer Jörg E. Mielke .

Landers also worked as a producer for a number of bands in which he did not play himself. For example , in January 1987 , Olaf Tost and Stefan Schüler, musicians in the band die other , reported in the DT64 rock show Parocktikum that Landers was responsible for the sound when they recorded their first demo tape .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was active as a helper in several squatted houses in East Berlin, which were expanded into cultural meetings. Among other things, he helped with the installation of a recording studio in Schönhauser Allee 5, which was occupied by his Feeling-B colleague Rompe . In Tacheles he received claims to an ABM subheading as a sound engineer and built from used parts, the sound system of the Kunsthaus together. In connection with his band membership in Die Firma , he also took on security duties in the also occupied underground club Eimer on Rosenthaler Strasse, which at the time, like many occupied houses, was the target of skinhead attacks.

Exit at Feeling B and musical influence

Landers' main band Feeling B broke up in late 1993 / early 1994 - a short time after he announced his departure. In retrospect, various companions and GDR music experts admit that he had a not inconsiderable influence on the musical work of the band Feeling B, although he and Lorenz officially always referred to singer Rompe as the "head of the band".

This is what Wolf-Dietrich Fruck, the editor in charge of the GDR's own record label Amiga , said, which recorded Feeling B in 1989 for the first official GDR punk music album Hea Hoa Hoa Hea Hea Hoa :

"As early as 1987 ( note: the year of the first Amiga recordings with Feeling B for the so-called clover-leaf sampler ) it turned out that Paul Landers was the clear musical head of Feeling B." He can rightly call himself the producer of the album, whereby the sound engineer Gerd Puchelt was certainly a somewhat uncomfortable, but ultimately a very helpful partner for him. "

- Wolf-Dietrich Fruck, Amiga editor 1983–1990

Landers also took over the lead in the recording studio for the follow-up albums Wir get dich alle and Die Maske des rote Todes , the production of which the band paid for out of their own pocket.

Actor Henry Hübchen , a fellow student of Rompes, said of the band and Landers:

“After leaving Humboldt University, I hadn't seen Aljoscha for a long time. (...) I still believed that he would have become a physicist, but he was wearing lederhosen and was running around in a hectic rock'n'roll manner. (...) I was surprised by Feeling B, especially the guitarist. He hopped around there and played his own guitar, he had verve and energy. "

- Henry pretty

Director and dramaturge Jochen Wisotzki, who met Landers in the course of the production phase for the film whispering & screaming , which ran from 1985 to 1988 , was of a similar opinion:

“(...) suddenly I discovered that Paul (...) has something cheerful about it, but something very clear about it, something decisive, something serious. I admired him back then (...). For me, Paul was one of those young people who had made a pretty clear decision on one thing, carried it out, and were able to justify it from their guts. "

- Jochen Wisotzki, dramaturge

Landers decided to leave Feeling B at the end of 1993 after a Christmas concert in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei . He wanted to break new ground musically. Some time before, the band founder and singer Aljoscha Rompe had refused to sing a fourth Feeling B album, largely composed by himself, Schneider and Lorenz, because the music style - harder, more electronic, less improvised - no longer suited him. About the evening of the exit, Landers later said:

“The concert was horrific again, suddenly I saw very clearly, I don't want that anymore. I don't want to torture Aljoscha anymore, that he stays in the rhythm, I don't want to torture him, that he sings the melodies correctly, I don't want to torture him that he adopts modern rhythms. He is what he is, I can't blame him if I get stuck. So I have to get out. "

- Paul Landers

Lander's announcement of exit and that of the third member, Flake Lorenz, who joined Landers - Rompe did not take seriously at first, often speaking of a break in the band in interviews. But later he said of Lander's decision:

“In the east there was no commerce (...). Now in the West there is commerce and it was definitely a problem for one or the other of Feeling B that I was the brakes. (...) As for Paul specifically: In Rammstein he found exactly the band where he always wanted to go. "

- Aljoscha Rompe (†), Feeling B

At the official Feeling B farewell concert, which took place on the weekend of Pentecost 1994 at the Steinbrücken Open Air , Landers still played with Lorenz.

On the same weekend, Landers was on stage a second time in Steinbrücken - now with his new band Rammstein. With the organizer of the festival, Uwe Hager, Landers was amicably known, since he appeared there regularly: the first time in 1986 with the company since 1987, he came in a row with six years Feeling B .

Hager found out about the separation from Landers earlier than the band made it official:

“Paul came to me on New Year's Eve 1993 and said he thinks Feeling B is breaking up. (...) He gave me a cassette and said, listen to this. That's how I heard the Rammstein stuff for the first time and that didn't really appeal to me. (...) Paul offered that Rammstein play Whitsun 94 as a band with me in Steinbrücken (...), made me the suggestion that if the band is there anyway, then they could also open the door in Steinbrücken: Till, Scholle (Richard Kruspe), Schneider and Olli, because they all have no money. "

- Uwe Hager, organizer Steinbrücken Festival

Landers negotiated the fee with Hager at the time: the new band Rammstein played a concert for 800 marks and took over the entry post described by Hager.

New start with Rammstein

Landers had already become a Rammstein member early in 1994, and according to the band's official presentation, he was part of it on January 1st, the day it was founded. His entry into the band was not without contradictions. His old Feeling B (guest) colleague Christoph Schneider - one of four founding members of the band project Temple Prayers , ultimately emerged from the Rammstein - was initially against the fact that Landers part of the new group would. Schneider had given up on Feeling B in 1993 because of the unprofessional style of play - the trademark of Feeling B - and wanted nothing more to do with the members. He had found Landers especially exhausting and criticized him for it. Schneider finally bowed, because two of the other three founding members of the Templeprayers - lead guitarist Richard Kruspe on the one hand , but especially singer Till Lindemann , who had both known Landers since the 1980s and from working together at First Arsch - agreed to accept the musician . Landers became the fifth member and has been a rhythm guitarist ever since .

Landers was also involved in renaming the band. He, Flake and Schneider are officially listed as the originators of the name Rammstein . In the Feeling B times you had pondered about band names and came up with the name Rammstein Flugschau , which quickly became Rammstein. An idea that the band members found rather uncomfortable after violent, critical public tones. After the band had even denied the connection with the Ramstein flight disaster in the first few years , Landers later made a statement on the subject that not only admitted the connection, but also justified the obvious spelling mistake.

Role at Rammstein

From a musical point of view, Landers is the second guitarist alongside band founder and lead guitarist Richard Kruspe . In addition, statements by his band mates in interviews indicate that he had or does have some influence on musical / textual content and stage show elements. According to Till Lindemann, Landers did a lot of work in the recording studio in the early stages of the band; Among other things, he was responsible for arrangements and supported Lindemann with writing and singing. According to Lindemann, the hammering with fists on his thighs and knees, which is characteristic of the Rammstein singer today, became a show element at the suggestion of Landers. The background to this action was originally a painful meniscus and knee injury to Lindemann from swimming. When the singer got complaints on stage in the early stages of Rammstein , he drummed hard on these areas in order to be able to be flexible again quickly. This caught the attention of Landers, as Lindemann said in the making of You smell so good in 1995 :

"I then thrashed it three or four times and (...) Paul kept saying, do it more often, that looks great. Somehow it became a habit - it got stuck. "

- Till Lindemann

The first flamethrower the band used was an idea borrowed from Feeling B, according to Landers. In addition, it was Landers who sneaked into the empty auditorium at the first, rather poorly attended Rammstein gigs and spilled gasoline there, which Lindemann later lit from the stage.

In an interview with the FAZ in 2009 , Rammstein keyboardist Flake - asked by a reporter at the time about the most salient characteristics of individual band members - about Landers:

“Paul is actually our main person responsible for anger. When we hesitate, he says: 'but straight'. And he's like a good driver. When things slow down, when the reins begin to drag, Paul can strictly follow suit and keep the troop together. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

In addition, from time to time Landers is also active as a producer and director of making-of videos for the band's album productions. He was responsible for the making-of films for Reise Reise und Liebe ist für alle , which the band added to the concert DVDs Völkerball and Rammstein in America, along with other documentaries .

In 2003 he was responsible for the Sauerkraut remix of the Marilyn Manson song mOBSCENE together with Rammstein drummer Schneider .

In 2019, Production Designer Leroy Bennett told the UK edition of Metal Hammer that Landers was the band's "leading creative person" when it came to stage shows. He brought in models and drawings for the set design that "often defy physics".

Tribute to Aljoscha Rompe

On 19 December 2000 returned Landers again to his fun-punk roots in the style of Feeling B back. The occasion was a memorial concert for singer Aljoscha Rompe, who had died of an asthma attack three weeks earlier in his mobile home in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. Landers appeared in the Kulturbrauerei Berlin together with Flake and Schneider - but not as Feeling B. This band - with the addition "New" - had briefly returned in the late nineties through a Rompes initiative with two new musicians; they played under this name that evening.

Instead, Landers, Lorenz and Schneider played that evening under the name Die Magdalene Keibel Combo. All three had belonged to this formation at some point. In honor of Rompe, Landers, Flake and Schneider played the Feeling B songs "Artig", "Tschaka" and "Kim Wilde" as well as the Keibel combo song "John". Landers took over the guitar parts as always.

Instruments

Paul Landers bought his first electric guitar in ninth grade. It was a guitar with the name Iris from the Czech guitar manufacturer Jolana . He modified this by sawing off the neck according to his own statement. He kept this practice at least until the early 2000s.

Since Landers initially had no money for a professional amplifier, he used his understanding of technology and, according to his own statements, tinkered among other things from clothespins, telephone earphones, a tweeter and a "Lausitz" clock radio from VEB Kombinat Robotron a temporary distortion device , which he wrapped in pillows. He also worked on trick distortions. Some time later he was able to buy a Vermona branded Regent 300K amplifier .

In the 1990s he mainly played on guitars from Music Man , but at that time he also owned a Les Paul from the American manufacturer Gibson . In 2006 he had an Eclipse guitar modified by ESP . This model went into series production under the name ESP Eclipse I CTM PL Paul Lander's Signature Model , but is not an official signature guitar .

In March 2012 he was honored by Gibson with his own Les Paul signature. He was the first German musician to be honored in this way by the American manufacturer. Since then, he says he only needs this guitar.

Occasionally - including the piece Los from the album Reise, Reise and the piece Wilder Wein - he uses an acoustic guitar. Then he plays an instrument made by the Japanese manufacturer Takamine .

Others

At the end of the 1990s, Paul Landers did not own a television, records, CDs or a corresponding player. In an interview with Rock Hard magazine in June 2004, he finally reported that he had bought an mp3 player during the preproduction for the Reise Reise album and had loaded all of the Rammstein albums onto it.

His bandmate Christian Lorenz ( Flake ) reports that during the Feeling B times, Landers packed his guitar in plastic bags instead of a guitar case. This can be seen in the credits of the DEFA film whispering & screaming - a rock report from 1988 while Landers walks down a street with the guitar wrapped in this way.

Web links

Commons : Paul H. Landers  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Paul Landers in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anton Hiersche: How a dream was lost, memories of a Slavist. Verlag am Park Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89793-262-3 , pp. 131/143.
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3. ^ Anton Hiersche: How a dream was lost, memories of a Slavist. Verlag am Park Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89793-262-3
4. ^ Anton Hiersche: How a dream was lost, memories of a Slavist. Verlag am Park Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89793-262-3 , p. 348.
5. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 113
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7. ^ Anton Hiersche: How a dream was lost, memories of a Slavist. Verlag am Park Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89793-262-3 , p. 458.
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10. ↑ youtube.com: the others: Paul's wedding , upload November 30, 2011, accessed on June 7, 2017
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12. ^ Anton Hiersche: How a dream was lost, memories of a Slavist. Verlag am Park Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89793-262-3 , p. 529
13. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 121
14. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 42.
15. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 43.
16. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 44.
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18. ↑ beat-poet.de: The company , accessed on November 7, 2017
19. ↑ eventelevator.de: Rammstein: Interview with the crew , December 22, 2011, accessed on November 7, 2017
20. ↑ Pressebox.de: VisualProductions: TimeCore für Rammstein , November 30, 2017, accessed on November 30, 2017
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22. ↑ taz.de: The Night of the Nazis in the Zionskirche , September 27, 2008, accessed on September 10, 2017
23. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B Mix me a drink, punk in the east, detailed discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , page 630/31
24. ↑ NMI & MESSITSCH: We don't want that - Paul Landers on Feeling B , issue 1-92, page 51
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