Rosenrot (song)

Rose red
Rammstein
publication	December 16, 2005
length	3:48
Genre (s)	New German Hardness
Author (s)	Rammstein , Jacob Hellner
Label	Motor Music
album	Rose red

Rosenrot is a song by the German metal band Rammstein . It is the second single from the Rosenrot album and was released on December 16, 2005. Like other tracks, the song was produced in collaboration with Jacob Hellner . "Rosenrot" was recorded in the Cortijo Studio in Málaga .

song lyrics

The song is an adaptation of Goethe's Heidenröslein and the fairy tale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot by the Brothers Grimm , from which the title is taken. The song begins with the line "A girl saw a rose," based on the "saw a boy stand a rose," from the Heidenröslein . The rest of the text, however, deviates from the original and describes how the girl asks her loved one to pick the rose from the mountain for her:

"This is how she spoke to her loved one,
whether he could do it for her"

- Rammstein, Rosenrot

At this request, the loved one climbs into the mountain, but falls down while trying to reach it:

"A stone breaks on his boots. Does
n't want to be on the rock anymore
And a scream announces everyone
Both fall into the ground"

- Rammstein, Rosenrot

The refrain is in two parts and in its first part describes the custom according to which it is customary to bring the girl the rose that she wants so that she can give her heart to the admirer:

"She wants it and that's how it is.
That's how it was and that's how it will always be.
She wants and that's the way it is custom.
What she wants she gets too"

- Rammstein, Rosenrot

In the second part, the danger of undertaking by Rosenrot is shown in a parallel to the saying "Still waters are deep" :

"You have to dig deep wells
If you want clear water
Rose red oh rose red
Deep water is not still"

- Rammstein, Rosenrot

Music video

The music video for the single Rosenrot was directed by the director Zoran Bihać , who had already produced the videos for Links 2 3 4 and Mein Teil . It first aired on November 30, 2005 on MTV Rockzone . It was shot on November 13th and 14th, 2005 in the hamlet of Măgura and the Zărneşti Gorge ( Cheile Zărneştilor ) in the Piatra Craiului Mountains in Transylvania .

The music video shows a group of monks and priests, represented by the band members, come to a remote village where a festival is being held. The priests are invited to dinner and watch the population dance. A monk, played by Till Lindemann , notices a girl (played by Cătălina Lavric) while dancing. In the next scene, which takes place at night, the monks begin to flagellate themselves , which is repeatedly faded in later. The priests give communion to the villagers and the monk portrayed by Lindemann befriends the young woman. In dream sequences he sleeps in their room and she comes to him at night, caressing him with a rose. She eventually accompanies him to her parents' house one evening, in which the monk apparently murders her father and mother at her request while she is watching the scene from outside. (Before that, both at the end of the dream sequences and when they arrived together in front of their parents' house, she pressed his hands tightly around the thorny rose stem.) When he steps out of the house after the murder, she points at him and chases the villagers and monks upon him. He is overwhelmed and the next evening, surrounded by the villagers and the clergy, burned on a pyre , which the girl lights by being the first to throw her torch at him. In the final scene, the remaining monks leave the village from which the plume of smoke is still rising.

publication

The song was first released on the album Rosenrot in October 2005. On December 16, 2005, the song was released as a second release from the album after gasoline in the form of a single and a maxi single. Both contain a single version of the song as well as a remix by the Erfurt band Northern Lite , the maxi single supplemented by The Tweaker Remix by Chris Vrenna , former drummer with Nine Inch Nails, and the 3am At Cosey Remix by Jagz Kooner .

The rapper Alligatoah released a cover version of Rosenrot on the cover album Fremde Zungen in 2018 .

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	28 (9 weeks)	9
Austria (Ö3)	46 (6 weeks)	6th
Switzerland (IFPI)	59 (8 weeks)	8th

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rosenrot (Rammstein) in the German charts
2. ↑ Music videos ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at rammstein-austria.com
3. ↑ On the "set" of Rosenrot (Măgura, Brașov, Romania) (accessed July 18, 2019)
4. ↑ Mark Vorsatz: At night when the wolves howl ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 5, 2011, accessed on July 18, 2019)
5. ↑ Rosenrot (Single) ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on rammstein.de
6. ↑ austriancharts.at
7. ↑ hitparade.ch