till Lindemann

Till Lindemann at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Till Lindemann (born January 4, 1963 in Leipzig ) is a German singer and poet . Occasionally he is also active as a drummer , actor and visual artist . Lindemann is known as the front singer and lyricist of the music groups Rammstein and Lindemann .

Life

Childhood and youth

Till Lindemann grew up in Wendisch Rambow (district of Bad Kleinen ) and in Rostock in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . His father Werner Lindemann was a well-known children's book author in the GDR . His mother, Brigitte "Gitta" Lindemann, is a journalist and worked from 1992 to 2002 at Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Schwerin as head of culture at NDR 1 Radio MV. Lindemann has a sister who is six years younger than him.

Lindemann wrote his first lyrical fragments at the age of nine. In the book Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair , his father quotes the poem The Nutcracker penned by his nine-year-old son:

"He just cracks every nut, and it doesn't want to, has to."

- Till Lindemann

Lindemann was a competitive swimmer in his youth, attended a children's and youth sports school and was housed in the boarding school there. He swam for the SC Empor Rostock .

After he finished seventh in the Youth European Championship in swimming over 1500 meters in 1978, he was also considered for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . However, he was denied participation because he left the hotel without permission during the European Youth Swimming Championships in Florence (depending on the information, also Rome ) and obtained "class-hostile" stickers from colleagues from Germany in the team bus. After an injury, he ended his career in 1979 and, living in a new building in Rostock -Evershagen, completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Rostock housing association. Later he also worked as a basket maker , carpenter and technician.

At the age of 19 he moved in September 1982 to his father, who lived in a farmhouse in the Drispeth artists' colony in the Mecklenburg community of Zickhusen . He stayed there for nine months, and father and son did not always live together harmoniously. His father wrote about this time literarily in the book Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Processed notes from a father in which his son bears the name Timm . Werner Lindemann describes the excerpt from "Timm" after the same nine months in his work as follows:

“I am miserable as a dog. I want to get drunk. I went to the board meeting (...), stayed overnight in Rostock and now I find a note on the table: 'Bye! I'll let you see me soon. ' Timm's room has been cleared. Where did he go Why secretly? "

- Werner Lindemann

The book was published for the first time in 1988 and was reprinted on Till Lindemann's initiative in 2006, but with a different cover picture: While the first published work still showed a fairly general illustration, the current cover is a photo of the Rammstein singer in which he is a wooden chair on train tracks.

After moving out of his father's house, Lindemann stayed in the vicinity of Lake Schwerin. He first moved in with an acquaintance who continued to work as a basket weaver a few villages.

First musical steps

From 1986 Lindemann was musically active in his spare time. He was the drummer in the (fun) punk band First Arsch - a short version of the First Autonomous Rioters in Schwerin - but also sang the encores there and sometimes played bass.

In 1987 he first met his later bandmates Paul Landers and Christian “Flake” Lorenz in his then home town of Hohen Viecheln . They had given a concert in the community with their band Feeling B at the time, then spent a week in Hohen Viecheln and finally turned up one night - led by a friend of Lindemann's - in his house. According to Landers and Lorenz, the heavily drunk musicians celebrated, ate and drank there without consciously noticing the host that evening. In the years that followed, the two Berliners visited Lindemann again and again and got to know him. Lindemann introduced her to her future colleague from Rammstein, Richard Kruspe , who was still called Sven at the time. Lorenz later said in an interview about his first encounters with Till Lindemann:

“He moved out very early at home and bought this house, it was a reed cottage, only half of which belonged to him. (...) Till was a basket weaver and fan (note: from Feeling B). He came to us after the concert in the Schwerin “Achteck” and we talked a little. (...) Till looked good, just such a big farmer who speaks one sentence an hour. Something like that impressed us. "

- Christian "Flake" Lorenz

In the period that followed after getting to know each other, Landers also played a temporary role in Lindemann's band, as First Arsch did not initially have a permanent guitarist. From the point of view of the first-ass main singer Steve Mielke, Richard Kruspe is, in retrospect, the official guitarist of the group.

Musical creation since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Lindemann live (2010)

In 1992, Lindemann released the album Saddle Up with First Ass , on which Kruspe and Landers again played alongside him and Mielke. Together with Kruspe and his roommate Oliver Riedel , Lindemann traveled to the southwest of the USA in 1993. The three friends, who were each playing in different bands at the time - Kruspe was guitarist for Orgasm Death Gimmick , Riedel bassist for The Inchtabokatables - returned impressed by the local metal scene . When Kruspe wanted to start a new music project, he thought Lindemann was an ideal cast as a singer and persuaded him to work together. Together with Riedel and Christoph Schneider - at that time drummers at Die Firma - they founded a new band under the name Tempelprayers - this would only become known some time later under the name Rammstein . The last members of the band were Paul Landers as second guitarist and Christian “Flake” Lorenz as keyboardist. According to statements by Christoph Schneider and Flake, Lindemann in particular - against the will of some other founding members - campaigned for the inclusion of the two ex- Feeling B musicians, because on the one hand he had been a fan of the band and, on the other hand, because of their popularity, there were advantages for the hoped for a new band.

Lindemann has been a trained pyrotechnician since 1996 . After explosive and fire performances became the core element of the stage show at Rammstein concerts and there were often injuries to fans and musicians in the initial phase, he acquired a so-called pyro certificate .

In 1999 he was a guest singer with the Puhdys for the piece Anger Wut doesn't want to die . In 2007 he appeared at Apocalyptica as a guest singer for a reinterpretation of the David Bowie song Heroes . The piece of music was released under the title Heroes on the album Worlds Collide . After the publication, the label Gun Records of the Finnish band had to answer to the Berlin district court for infringement of name and trademark rights and pay 45,000 euros in damages to the main band Lindemanns in the course of a settlement; the label had advertised the “Worlds Collide” album on a large scale with the addition “featuring Rammstein”, although the band was otherwise not involved.

In September 2011 Lindemann made a guest appearance in Knorkator's music video for the single Du nich .

In spring 2014 he wrote the text for I know everything for Roland Kaiser , a piece from his album Seelenbahnen .

Since 2015 Lindemann, together with the Swedish musician and producer Peter Tägtgren the alternative metal duo Lindemann , the same year in June, the album Skills in Pills published.

The US label Roadrunner Records lists Till Lindemann at number 50 on The 50 Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time .

Poetry and visual arts

Till Lindemann has been writing poetry since 1991. Over time, he passed some pieces on to the late artist Gert Hof , who was responsible for the lighting concept at Rammstein concerts for several years from September 1996 and had already published an illustrated book about the band in 1999. He then selected from 1,000 poems those that, in his opinion, were most suitable for a book. In 2002 Till Lindemann and Gert Hof published the book of poems under the name Messer at Eichborn Verlag . He wrote the poems contained therein between 1995 and 2002 independently of his work at Rammstein . In 2013 a further volume of poetry appeared with In silent nights .

In 2014 Lindemann exhibited two sculptures and original scripts from his volume of poetry In silent nights in the Dresden gallery Holger John . In addition, original drawings by Matthias Matthies , which were included in Lindemann's volume of poems In silent nights , and the 2011 “death masks” made by the Rammstein members were exhibited.

On October 5, 2017, he and the musician and extreme athlete Joey Kelly brought out a book of photos and poetry entitled Yukon - my hated friend . The photographer Thomas Stachelhaus, who regularly portrays Kelly during his extreme sports activities, had photographed the two musicians on the Yukon during a three-week summer canoe trip that they undertook together. Kelly and Lindemann, who have been friends since the mid-1990s, performed together at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 14, 2017 to promote it.

Private life

Lindemann married early and his first daughter was born when he was 22 years old. For seven years he raised her alone. He is divorced and has a second daughter, a grandson and, according to his own statements, a son. In addition, he claims to be the godfather of the eldest son of extreme athlete and musician Joey Kelly .

From 2011 to November 2015 he was in a relationship with the actress Sophia Thomalla .

Lindemann currently owns apartments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin .

Lindemann is an active hunter and angler .

Others

In December 2019, Lindemann launched a vodka under his artist pseudonym Doktor Dick , in collaboration with the French distillery Ovin Pion Vodka , which was initially limited to 1000 pieces.

Linguistic style

Lindemann's language is always rich in images, often sensitive and romantic - anachronistic , sometimes also brutal and bloodthirsty. The latter two points can be traced back to Lindemann's image of man, which in the singer is naturalistic - archaic . In an interview in March 2006, Paul Landers , the band's rhythm guitarist , attributed the content and language of the Rammstein lyrics to Lindemann's “confused” living conditions. Kai Müller ordered Lindemann in an article in the Tagesspiegel of black romance to.

Lindemann himself characterized his lyrics as "love songs":

“Love songs in whatever decadent way. There is also a shrill form of love, and it goes well with our music. You always have a certain feeling about a hard riff or a nice melody. The question is, what do you define as love, or whether you can also venture into extreme forms of love. "

- Till Lindemann

A clear characteristic of his texts is the pure description of past or present events. The song Donaukinder refers to the Baia Mare dam break and its consequences. Mein Teil deals with Armin Meiwes , the “cannibal of Rotenburg”, Wiener Blut is based on the case of Josef Fritzl , who kept his daughter prisoner in the cellar for 24 years and with her fathered seven children, Rammstein handled the Ramstein air conference disaster .

Toni Bodevin from the SAE Institute interpreted Lindemann's descriptive language as follows in his review:

“Here (in the song Pussy ) this obviousness of the subject borders on sarcasm. But one must not forget that it is a pure art form. Photographers who take pictures of concentration camps do not necessarily enjoy the Holocaust either. It's similar with Rammstein. They just like to sing about uncomfortable and provocative topics that people don't like to address in public. In “Wiener Blut” front man Till sings about the incest case of Josef Fritzl. Here, too, one insists on lines like 'And are you sometimes alone? I'll plant a little sister for you to build in. "

- Toni Bodevin, SAE Institute

Marry me from the first Rammstein album Herzeleid was the first piece to be said to have totalitarian slogans in the media. The "Hei" calls of the guitarists Kruspe and Landers were wrongly interpreted as "Heil" calls. In the meantime, Lindemann uses pseudo-totalitarian slogans as in the texts for Mein Land , Rammlied , Führe mich and Links 2 3 4 as a provocative stylistic device. I want , Haifisch and Waidmanns Heil are also included in this motif, but in a weakened form. Often the provocative "fascist" undertone is given to these texts only through the interpretation - acoustically as well as optically.

The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek said:

"Just like Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator Hitler only lets say 'apple strudel' and 'Wiener Schnitzel' between babbling, Rammstein obscenely sabotages the fascist utopia."

- Slavoj Žižek

Literary motifs

In Lindemann's texts, a few motifs can be made out that stretch from Herzeleid to In silent nights . In general, his texts can be divided into three categories: texts that deal with experiencing suffering; those that describe the exercise of violence, which in turn leads to suffering, and those in which suffering is experienced and caused.

In texts of the latter category, longing often turns into hatred, humiliation or death, such as a halt in which a misanthrope becomes a murderer.

The lyrical self as a sufferer

When Lindemann writes from a suffering perspective, he often falls back on descriptions of nature and other romantic motifs. In the lyrics to the songs Jealousy , Adios , Nebel , Ohne dich , Roter Sand and Spring , death or the longing for death is processed. In all of these texts the lyric self, if it exists, is the victim.

Suffering and ailments are the motives in heartache , longing , mother , man against man , help me , Bückstabü and love is there for everyone , always in a completely different form, often in seemingly pathological descriptions. Here, too, the lyrical self, if it exists, can always be seen as in need of help. The feeling of inner coldness is a sub-complex of suffering and is expressed in Lindemann's texts on Seemann . Here, too, parallels to water can be drawn.

Heirate mich deals with the marriage motif in combination with necrophilia , the simple text by Du hast thematizes the rejection of a marriage proposal, as well as stone by stone .

Multiple personality disorder and or or hermaphroditism speaks Lindemann in hermaphrodites , I find myself good , Lead me and ladyboy on.

The lyrical self as a violent practitioner

Incestuous and pedophile violence are in the foreground in Tier , Spiel mit mir , Halleluja and Wiener Blut .

Dealing with other forms of sexual violence Do you want to see the bed in flames , you smell so good , love is there for everyone and Liese .

Fusion of suffering and violence

Punish me , bend over , fire wheels , open fire! and I hurt you deal with sadomasochism . Lindemann makes connections to eroticism and sexual intercourse in the texts on Marry me and My Part and Jealousy . In the latter two, cannibalism is addressed as an erotic fantasy or concrete implementation. In Marry Me, on the other hand, the lyrical I "caresses" a corpse, comparable to Lindemann's poem Elegy for Marie Antoinette .

fire and water

Sailor , fire and water and journey, journey , I hurt you take on motifs from the seaman's language. In all examples given, water and seafaring have a sexual or erotic component. Lindemann's time as a swimmer, which he remembers as not very pleasant, can be cited for interpretation.

Do you want to see the bed in flames , ashes to ashes , my heart burns , fire free! , Gasoline , Fire and Water and Help me take up topics on the complex of fire and pyromania ; Lindemann is a pyrotechnician.

symbolism

The heart is Lindemann's most important symbol. This role comes from the term u. a. in my heart burns , jealousy , hold and in the entire volume of poetry in silent nights .

Lindemann often uses the fish as a sexual synonym. Examples include spawning time , travel, travel , fire and water, and 3 × fish .

Tears are the symbols in knife , shark , give me your eyes , holidays , father's day , Amsterdam and longing . They are almost always related to the sea. In Bück dich the tear is used as a synonym for semen . Lindemann uses the term in completely different contexts, again and again (for example in Danube children ) also for the entire water complex.

To this end, wrote Moritz von Uslar in time on October 2, 2013: "A favorite vocabulary Lindemann's is the 'heart', it comes in every second poem (other favorite words: Pain, blood, soul, knife, love, child, tears). The poet does not shy away from Brothers Grimm vocabulary like 'Sternlein' or 'Ränzlein'. When he opens a poem with 'I am a splendid Schusterjung', the reader is in one line with Brentano , Eichendorff and Romanticism . And when Lindemann dissects bodies or expresses an indefinite loneliness, then one can, of course, also think of Gottfried Benn . "

Intertextual references

The literature of the 19th century and occasionally even older poetry play a major role in Lindemann's texts compared to other texts in contemporary popular music. Lindemann refers to the Weimar Classic in three pieces: Dalai Lama is an adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Erlkönig ; Rosenrot is an adaptation of Goethe's Heidenröslein and the fairy tale Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot ; Fire and water is said to have been inspired by Friedrich Schiller 's poem Der Taucher . My heart burns alludes to ETA Hoffmann's Sandmann . The Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann was the model for Help me . Roter Sand is based on Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest . Herzeleid takes up the old saying “Save one another from heartache, because the time you are together is short. […]" on.

The literature of the 20th century, including contemporary literature , Lindemann turned to significantly fewer pieces. The French chanson Non, je ne regrette rien by Édith Piaf served Lindemann as the inspiration for the chorus of the song Spring in Paris . Parallels to Bertolt Brecht can be found in Links 2 3 4 (loan from the united front song ) and Haifisch (loan from Die Moritat by Mackie Messer from Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which premiered in 1928). In both cases Lindemann used the poet Brecht to make combative statements in solidarity. You smell so good borrows from Perfume by Patrick Süskind ; America takes up the song Living in America by the band The Sounds ; American Psycho was quoted in I hurt you and B ******** . I'm hurting you like American Psycho were temporarily indexed by the federal inspection agency for media harmful to minors.

voice

Mostly Lindemann can be heard in the bass and baritone registers . Sometimes he uses high notes, which can also be covered by the tenor or alto registers .

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Discography

solo

• 1999: Anger does not want to die (single) (together with the Puhdys , in the final sales version Till Lindemann's voice was replaced by a different one, due to contractual provisions between Rammstein and her record company)
• 2003: Schtiel (single) (covered song by the band Aria , by Till Lindemann and Richard Kruspe , on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Harley-Davidson , the edition was only about 400 copies)
• 2007: Helden (single) ( David Bowie cover, with Till Lindemann and Richard Kruspe, appeared on the Apocalyptica album Worlds Collide )
• 2018: Let's Go with Emigrate to A Million Degrees

With first ass

• 1992: Saddle Up (album)

With Rammstein

→ Main article : Rammstein / discography

With Lindemann

→ Main article : "Discography" in the article Lindemann (volume)

as a writer or producer

→ Main article : List of author participations and productions by Till Lindemann

Filmography

• 1999: Pola X
• 2002: xXx - Triple X (xXx)
• 2003: Amundsen the penguin
• 2004: Vincent

Poetry and conversation volumes

• Messer , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-8218-0927-2 .
• In silent nights , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04524-6 .
• The poems. Messer / In Silent Nights , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04777-6 .
• 100 poems , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05332-6 .
• Werner Lindemann : Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05466-8 (with a conversation between Till Lindemann and publisher Helge Malchow ).

documentation

• Thomas Gaevert : Something Mike Oldfield recently - A Father-Son-Story , production Südwestrundfunk, first broadcast October 10, 2011 SWR2

literature

• Werner Lindemann : Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-371-00188-3 .

Web links

Commons : Till Lindemann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Till Lindemann  - Quotes

• Till Lindemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Till Lindemann at filmportal.de
• Literature by and about Till Lindemann in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Lindemann can be heard in Schtiel as a drummer , and he also played drums with First Ass

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michele Bettendorf: The origin of the punk scene, or: "Rammstein would never have existed in the West". November 2002, ISBN 3-8311-4493-1 , p. 116.
2. ^ Till Lindemann: In silent nights. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2013, p. 7.
3. ↑ Werner Lindemann: Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father , Ingo Koch Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-938686-61-4 , p. 64.
4. ↑ SWR2 Tandem: Some Mike Oldfield recently ( memento from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), broadcast from 2011, accessed via ARD Mediathek, original sound from 9:20 min.
5. ↑ Till Lindemann: the poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2013/2. Edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04777-6 , page 1.
6. ^ ^{A b c} Melanie Haack, Robert Dunker, Petra Schurer: Biedermann and Lindemann on music and sport. Swimming world champion Paul Biedermann likes hard rock music. Rammstein singer Till Lindemann once scratched for the GDR national team. In a double interview, the two talk about guitar riffs, provocative gestures, trainers, the German envy society and the new Rammstein video. In: The world . November 21, 2009, accessed May 10, 2014 . 
7. ↑ SWR2 Tandem: Some Mike Oldfield recently ( memento from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), broadcast from 2011, accessed via ARD Mediathek, original sound Gitta Lindemann at 2:08 min.
8. ^ Till Lindemann: The poems knife | In silent nights. 2nd edition 2015, Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch Cologne, 2013/2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04777-6 , p. 3.
9. ↑ Werner Lindemann: Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Ingo Koch Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-938686-61-4 , p. 148.
10. ↑ Werner Lindemann: Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin, 1988, ISBN 978-3-371-00188-3 .
11. ↑ Werner Lindemann: Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Ingo Koch Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-938686-61-4 .
12. ↑ Werner Lindemann: Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair. Notes from a father. Ingo Koch Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-938686-61-4 , p. 149.
13. ↑ Ulf Lüdeke: In the beginning there was fire - The Rammstein Story. Riva, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-677-6 , p. 20.
14. ↑ svz.de: From Schwerin to America. October 24, 2015, accessed January 13, 2017.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Bettendorf, p. 117.
16. ↑ ^{a b} Ulf Lüdeke: In the beginning there was fire - The Rammstein story. Riva Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-677-6 , p. 22.
17. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 369ff.
18. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive discussions with Flake, Paul Landers and many others 3rd edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 371/372.
19. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , p. 372.
20. ↑ Bettendorf, chapter Conversation with Steve von First Ass .
21. ↑ Ulf Lüdeke: In the beginning there was fire - The Rammstein Story. Riva Verlag Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86883-677-6 , p. 26.
22. ↑ Rammstein . In: motor.de . May 14, 2010 ( motor.de [accessed January 10, 2017]).
23. ↑ Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 , pp. 373-375.
24. ^ Rammstein-Austria: Apocalyptica feat. Till Lindemann ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
25. ↑ laut.de: Rammstein collect Apocalyptica. January 10, 2011, accessed October 19, 2017.
26. ↑ Music video of the week: Knorkator - You nich ( Memento from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ Rammstein singer wrote lyrics for Roland Kaiser.
28. ↑ The 50 Greatest Metal Front-Men Of All Time! ( Memento of March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 5, 2015.
29. ↑ Juliane Bauermeister: The bizarre art of the Rammstein singer. A little Jesus hovers over a "line of coke", holding a penis in his arms. Welcome to the new exhibition of the Dresden gallery owner Holger John (53). Bild.de, 2014, accessed on February 19, 2014 . 
30. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de: “I do believe that life is a marathon” , September 26, 2017, accessed on October 18, 2017.
31. ↑ Photo book Yukon: My hated friend , on shop.rammstein.de, accessed on 9/10/17
32. ↑ metal.de: Till Lindemann and Joey Kelly go canoeing , accessed on October 18, 2017
33. ↑ ^{a b} Interview Till Lindemann / Joey Kelly: “The true character is revealed on tours like this”, Playboy issue 11/2017, p. 51ff.
34. ↑ Lindemann and Thomalla are a couple
35. ↑ Separation of Sophia Thomalla and Till Lindemann: "Nothing is forever" Spiegel Online from November 25, 2015, accessed on November 25, 2015
36. ↑ Vincent Grundke: Rammstein poet Till Lindemann turns 51 today. Today Rammstein's cheeky mouth celebrates 51 - singer Till Lindemann has birthday. Born on January 4, 1963 in Leipzig, he is now a musician, pyrotechnician and poet. Ampya, January 4, 2014; archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved February 19, 2014 . 
37. ↑ Rammstein singer Lindemann is an avid hunter. In: Freiburger Nachrichten. October 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 13, 2020 ; accessed on February 13, 2020 . 
38. ↑ Till Lindemann: "I believe in the animal in humans". In: t-online.de. October 1, 2013, archived from the original on February 13, 2020 ; accessed on February 13, 2020 . 
39. ↑ Julia Lotz: Rammstein: Limited vodka by Till Lindemann is now available. morecore, December 14, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 . 
40. ↑ Till Lindemann: Rammstein singer brings new vodka onto the market. rockantenne, November 12, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 . 
41. ↑ 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 April 3, 2014 . 
42. ^ Animal instincts in a new volume of poetry. “Rammstein” front man Till Lindemann believes in the animal in humans and in sexuality as the “greatest potential”, as he revealed on the occasion of the publication of his second volume of poetry. Bunte, 2013, accessed February 19, 2014 . 
43. ↑ youtube.com: Interview Popikoni: Conversation with Paul Landers and Oliver Riedel on the promotion of Rosenrot , March 3, 2006, original sound from 2:40 min. , Uploaded on September 2, 2012 by Rammsteinfans Germany, accessed on September 30 2017
44. ↑ Kai Müller: When the mountain calls. The last heroes of the heroic age: Rammstein are releasing another album. Der Tagesspiegel, October 27, 2005, accessed on August 13, 2014 (review). 
45. ↑ Bettendorf, p. 99
46. ↑ Toni Bodevin: Rammstein takes the provocation to extremes with her album "Liebe ist für alle da". SAE Institute, February 19, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 (review). 
47. ↑ Alexander Gorkow, Andreas Mühe: Fire, anger and fine poetry. For the first time, the Rammstein band gave journalists a deep insight into their lives and work. For tomorrow's issue of SZ magazine, SZ journalist Alexander Gorkow and photographer Andreas Mühe accompanied the musicians for several weeks on their tour through Canada and the USA. An excerpt. Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, July 5, 2012, accessed on May 14, 2014 . 
48. ↑ In silent nights. Poems. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2013, accessed December 23, 2013 . 
49. ↑ Examples for this: Fog , Without You , Red Sand , Spring
50. ↑ Play with me , verses 1–4: "We share the room and the bed / little brother, come and be so nice / little brother, come and touch me! Slide very close to me" ; Verses 9-15: "Under the navel in the branches / A white dream is already waiting / Brothers come hold on tight / And shake the leaves from the tree for me / Play a game with me / Give me your hand and / Play with me"
51. ↑ Marry Me , verse 4, "sleeps by her stone every night . " The context shows that this is a tombstone; Verses 10-12 “I now go dig every night / to see what is left / of the face that laughs at me” . The lyrical self digs up its love again; Verse 21: "I kissed your cold mouth" . The lyrical ego makes physical contact with the corpse.
52. ↑ Halt , verses 7-12: “But the evil in noises / Is their hearts beating / Halt! Stand still / stop! Stand still / I cannot, cannot bear / Stop stop beating ” , verse 18: “ The beating of their hearts roars in my temples ” , verse 23–31: “ Stand still in the chest / A dead heart is no loss / Don't move! / Nobody tortures me like that for a joke / I let the sun on your heart / Nobody tortures me like that for a joke / I bring light to your heart / The decision is not difficult / I'm going home now and get my rifle ! "
53. ↑ Spawning season , verse 1–3, “He loves the mother / And from the side / He gives her the fish himself” , verse 6–8, “He loves the sister / And from behind / The fish eats its way to the mouth” , Verses 13-16, “He loves the dog / Oh God from above / The fish is now kissing with his tongue / Spewing dead milk in your face” , verse 19 “Fish milk everywhere” . The last two examples indicate semen ("fish milk") .
54. ^ Moritz von Uslar: A poet? The singer of the German band Rammstein Till Lindemann has published a volume of poetry. A walk with the world star. In: The time. October 2, 2013, accessed September 13, 2014 . 
55. ↑ rammimages.com Official ROSENROT press release by Thorsten Zahn ( Memento from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
56. ↑ Daniel Haas: Do you understand Haas? Index me, Ursula! A little too much sex, Rammstein immediately lands on the index with the new album. What a great free marketing - other artists get jealous of course. Spiegel Online overheard a scandalous conversation with Florian Silbereisen and Ursula von der Leyen, in which no taboo remained unbroken. In: Spiegel Online. November 12, 2009, accessed May 10, 2014 . 
57. ↑ Examples of this are Sailor , Piano , Don't Die Before Me and Give Me Your Eyes
58. ↑ Review of Worlds Collide on HeavyHardes.de