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Hier übrigens ein aktuelles Interview mit Till Lindemann:
“I don’t think it’s the last album. We’ve worked so hard, we’ve got so much music, so many songs, that we’re actually ready for the next album.”
Till Lindemann interview with Zhara Magazine: “I’m too honest.”
You are the hero of our secular chronicle: you are credited with an affair with the singer Svetlana Loboda. These rumors are already developed, tell us what happened between you?
Till: “They write and talk about us a lot, but it’s a secret between two people, and I, as a gentleman, can’t comment here in any way, so you won’t hear anything from me.”
Then let’s talk about you. Your youth took place in the socialist Germany. Did it affect your work in any way?
Till:“Of course. Without the GDR, Rammstein would not exist.
You know, there was no freedom of speech in the socialist countries, we were always clamped down, held back, shut up, and that’s why when the Berlin Wall collapsed, everything seemed to have explode under pressure. Without this, Rammstein wouldn’t have existed.”
What were you doing on the day the Wall collapsed?
“I was at home, in the village. I saw everything on TV. I was amazed by this, because it was so unusual. And then I turned off the TV and went to bed. Back then there were no cell phones, nothing. It was impossible to call everyone quickly. But my friends managed that same night to go to West Berlin, to Hamburg, to Lubeck - where it was impossible to get to before. Well, I just went to bed and fell asleep.”
Why?
“I was scared. There was a fear of the future, really. I did not know what would happen next. Two of my friends from Rammstein, Flake and Paul, were then in the other band. Their band was kind of privileged because they were allowed to go on tour in West Berlin. And so it happened that just that day, they had a concert there.
Imagine their faces when they suddenly saw their friends from East Berlin in a crowd of spectators. - “The wall fell apart! - “No way!” They never believed then. It’s an amazing story!”
Ah, did your fears come true?
"We have justified it. I was making money back then by weaving baskets. It’s an art to weave a basket. In the GDR, this work was very much appreciated, and I got good money. I really worked one day a week, and the rest of the time I was doing music and everything I wanted to do. But then it stopped abruptly, because in the united Germany my baskets were no longer needed. I was out of a job. That’s it. I had to adapt to the new conditions. For two years I received some kind of unemployment benefit.
Rammstein was created after the Berlin Wall was destroyed. We all knew each other, played in different groups, but got together and we became friends. We had a small criminal world. We didn’t have anything to eat, we were stealing, and we made up the whole story with the band when we were looking for food. We just decided to do something like that. We started playing for ridiculous money like 100 marks, which was nothing at the time, or for food and drinks. We began to travel slowly through Germany and we gained our own public. And now we are here."
Do not miss those days?
“No, I definitely don’t want to go back. Now I am absolutely happy person and very grateful to fate.”
Are you an optimist?
“Not. It is better to remain pessimistic and pleasantly surprised than to be optimistic and upset.”
Are your poems in the new Messer collection different from the lyrics you write for Rammstein?
"Very different. My books are out of control. I am the only one who decides what to write, what not to write, so I do what I want. And in Rammstein there are other people I work with, there are viewers who have everything under control. That’s why everything is much more complicated there.
When you write the lyrics for a song, you have to follow a lot of rules, get to the beat, get to the rhythm. In some cases, when a word doesn’t fit, it has to be removed, replaced, and because of that the content suffers a lot. Usually it happens like this: when I think that everything is already done, colleagues come in and tell me that they have changed the music a little bit. I have to edit and adapt something again. And this goes on endlessly. I have to rewrite it up to a thousand times until I finish one song. And imagine the difference. I go to sleep with it, I’m waking up with it. It’s a 24 hour job that completely absorbs me."
Do you like it?
“Honestly, yes. But in those moments when something goes wrong, I feel like a loser and start hating it all.”
If you were told as a child that you would write poetry, would you believe it?
"No way! I didn’t want to do that. My father was a famous poet. And I didn’t even think about it. It was all just a coincidence. First I was a drummer, then I started singing, and the guys in the band said, “Since you’re a vocalist, you have to write poetry. - Why? - Because all the singers write poems. Such a cliché. I had to start slowly. And now I am still writing. But writing poems to me - never seemed to be a serious job. When I was a young man, I said that I would only become a poet if I couldn’t do anything else in my life. My father just exploded and went mad about it. He was typing all day long, and I even thought he was working as a secretary, not taking his work seriously. My classmates’ fathers worked in factories, factories, and they had real men’s work. What about my father? He just sat there and wrote something on paper.”
Now that you understand his work, are you proud to be the son of a writer?
"I am proud. And I realized that the genes won. Still, I have a certain heredity. When I first picked up my own book, it was an incredible feeling, just incredible! It’s hard to even convey.
“Almost the same as when you take your first child in your arms after birth.”
How honest are you in your poems?
“Absolutely honest. Probably too much, so they are often censored. And unfortunately, a lot is lost in translation too.”
Speaking of censorship. You have probably heard that young musicians in Russia have recently been accused of extremism and banned from playing concerts.
Have you ever encountered such a thing?
“Provocation always sells well. Now the world is like this - everything happens very quickly, and the musicians have only two options: to write some fantastic or lyrical poems that will sell well, or be provocative. Therefore, sometimes people just deliberately try to provoke someone. Just imagine, a column of cars is driving, and suddenly a car appears without a muffler, which rumbles on the whole street: “Pak-Pak-Pak”…
That is, it is clear that the person in this car really wants to attract attention. So are these people. They are really trying to stand out through provocation.”
Well, Rammstein, probably, can also be included in the category of those who are engaged in provocations.
“We were accused of everything, both right and leftwing radicalism, and we were just doing our job. At some point, we even stopped performing in Germany because we were constantly being bullied there. We started to travel in the rest of the world, and everywhere we were greeted with open arms. Honestly speaking, we had to become “big” in order to return to our country. It was very interesting.”
What advice would you give to the young musicians who are in this situation now?
“First of all - focus on your goal, just keep moving. You don’t have to pay attention to anything. You just have to move forward, that’s the most important thing.”
Your guitarist Richard hinted that the album, which everyone has been waiting for so long, will be the last album. Is that true?
"I don’t think it’s the last album. We’ve worked so hard, we’ve got so much music, so many songs, that we’re actually ready for the next album. And, of course, we won’t be able to give it up for nothing. But imagine, we haven’t released an album in ten years. We performed a lot and that’s why we left the studio work. And when you’re not in the studio for a long time, it’s not easy to get back together. We’ve been working on this new album for the last three years, and we have to get used to it all again. Of course, when people get tired of working, they say, “All right, that’s it! So I know exactly what Richard meant. After three years of hard work, the man is simply tired.”
What is the perfect day for Till Lindemann?
“This will be a +18 story, and your publication has a different age limit. (Laughs.) But honestly, I can’t even tell where I would like to be, in which city, in which country. When I’m on tour, I wake up every day in a new place and I always enjoy it. I can say that I am happy to wake up in Moscow. (Smiles.) In general, I don’t have one perfect day. Because I like to be surprised!”
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Aber ja, es soll einfach Rammstein heißen. Nachdem was ich gelesen habe. Aber Hauptsache das Album wird gut.
