Till Lindemann grew up in a small village called
Wendisch-Rambow. Smokes and drinks. Divorced, but has two children, both girls,
one age 15, the other 5. His first band was First Arsch, and was the drummer.
His father died, but Till has never seen his grave. Lives in a flat in
Berlin. Hates pop music. Has a fish for a pet. Till was not an Olympic swimmer
due to a torn stomach muscle in 1988, but was a youth champion. First band was
First Arsch, as a drummer.
Till Lindemann grew up in a small village called
Wendisch-Rambow. Smokes and drinks. Divorced, but has two children, both girls,
one age 15, the other 5. His first band was First Arsch, and was the drummer.
His father died, but Till has never seen his grave. Lives in a flat in Berlin.
Hates pop music. Has a fish for a pet. Till was not an Olympic swimmer due to a
torn stomach muscle in 1988, but was a youth champion. First band was First
Arsch, as a drummer.
Attended Berlin Premier of XXX with bandmates Oliver
Riedel and Christoph “Doom” Schneider
Before Rammstein he ran his own business in Berlin
Used to be a youth-champion swimmer
Has two daughters – Nele from his first marriage,
Marie Louise from his relationship with Anja Koesling.
Grew up with his mother, Gitte, father, Werner and a
sister six years younger.
His mother has recently retired from journalism and his
Father, now deceased, was a poet.
Till’s parents divorced when he was just 12.
Has recently completed signings of his book “Messer”
in Germany.
Ordered to pay a total of DM1200 in damages by a court
in the city of Dresden (Germany) to ex girlfriend Anja Koesling, after her
allegations of an incident involving herself and Till at a hotel in October
1997. It was reported that he punched her in the nose. His lawyers and himself
have refused to make any comment on the subject.
Last name is misspelled as “Lindermann” on the
American version of the group’s “Sehnsucht” album.
His father died in November of 1992, after drinking
himself to death and was buried in the grounds of a church near
Wendisch-Rambow.
He lives in Berlin-Prezlauer Berg, on the top floor of
an appartment block in a unit lined with windows.
Refused to do military service and almost went to
prison for his actions.
Among Lindemann’s favourite bands are Deep Purple,
Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath and singers Marilyn Manson and Chris Isaak.
Till Lindemann was born in Leipzig, but he grew up in
the village of Wendisch-Rambow in Schwerin (East Germany). His father, Werner
Lindemann, was a poet, and his mother, Brigitte
(Gitta) Lindemann, is an artist and writer who has co-written at least one book with her husband. Till Lindemann has one sister, six years younger than himself. At age 11 he went to a sports school at the Rostock Sports Club, and from 1977-1980 attended a boarding school. His parents divorced in 1975, when he was age 12.
(Gitta) Lindemann, is an artist and writer who has co-written at least one book with her husband. Till Lindemann has one sister, six years younger than himself. At age 11 he went to a sports school at the Rostock Sports Club, and from 1977-1980 attended a boarding school. His parents divorced in 1975, when he was age 12.
In the years 1976-1979, Lindemann was a good swimmer
who became junior vice-European
champion. He finally left sports school in 1979. It is possible that he was thrown out of sports school due to him sneaking out, unaccompanied, of a hotel in Italy on a swimming tour. But he also suffered an injury, a torn abdominal muscle – so either reason could be valid. According to Lindemann, “I never liked the sport school actually, it was very intense. But as a child you don’t object.”
champion. He finally left sports school in 1979. It is possible that he was thrown out of sports school due to him sneaking out, unaccompanied, of a hotel in Italy on a swimming tour. But he also suffered an injury, a torn abdominal muscle – so either reason could be valid. According to Lindemann, “I never liked the sport school actually, it was very intense. But as a child you don’t object.”
His first job was at a peat cutting company, but he
was fired after three days. He worked as an apprentice carpenter, a gallery
technician, and was most well-known as a basket weaver.
In 1981, Till Lindemann apparently refused to do his 9
months compulsory military service and was almost imprisoned because of the
refusal. Many young men used to do “Ersatzdienst” or “substitute or reserve
service”, so he may have done this.
In 1985, when Lindemann was 22, his first daughter,
Nele, was born. Lindemann and Nele’s mother married after she was born, but
they separated and he has raised Nele alone. Lindemann says, “I used to play
drums in a punk band and we had our studio in the house where I lived. Seven
years I had been a father raising his daughter, but nowadays I’m sharing the
upbringing with her mother, because I’m gone for six months of the year with
the band.”
The Berlin Wall came down November 9th, 1989, and
Germany started its path to reunification. On this, Lindemann says, “After the
wall had been opened, I drove to West Germany and bought gummy bears and yogurt
for my salutation money. But there wasn’t anything else.”
His father died in November of 1992, of the effects of
alcohol. He was buried in the grounds of a church near Wendisch-Rambow.
Lindemann had a second daughter with Anja Köseling,
his former partner/wife. Köseling claimed Lindemann abused her physically
during their relationship and that he refused to pay child support for their
daughter, Marie-Louise (b. ca. 1993). Lindemann has never commented on her
claim.
In a radio interview in 2004, Lindemann stated that he
wants to retire at 50 to spend more time with his children.
At a performance in Sweden in 2005, he received a knee
injury on stage when keyboardist Flake accidentally ran into him while riding a
Segway PT. This injury caused several tour dates in Asia to be
cancelled. In 2005, five Rammstein albums received platinum awards and the
band also received the “World Sales Awards” for over 10 million sold copies
worldwide. During the filming of the band’s music video for “Ich tu dir
weh”, Lindemann wanted a light put in his mouth to create a visually stunning
effect. Band mate Paul Landers suggested that he use a flesh colored wire
and run it along his cheek to shine a light into his mouth from the
outside. Lindemann refused, and instead opted to have a surgical incision
in his left cheek, so that a light could be fed into his mouth directly, and
largely out of sight.
There is a specific performance move of Lindemann’s,
dubbed “The Till Hammer”. This move is where he bends his knees, beats one
fist off his thigh in a hammering motion while turning his head from side to
side. On occasion, Flake has been seen to parody the move on-stage. Unlike most
band frontmen, Lindemann stated in an interview that he does not like being
looked at while on stage, where he would wear sunglasses. He also opts to
look at the back to the mixing booth, or does hand gestures during guitar solos
to distract the audience from looking directly at him. Due to his on-stage
anxiety, Lindemann sometimes asks his band mates to use a rubber dinghy to
crowd surf during shows, as it gets the audience’s attention away from the
stage temporarily. In 2011, Roadrunner Records listed Till Lindemann at
number 50 of The 50 Greatest Metal frontmen of all time. In
2013, Lindemann’s second poetry book, In stillen Nächten was
published. He commented on the poetry, saying “The vast majority of my
poems could have been written a few hundred years earlier.”
In a 2011 interview, Lindemann has stated he still has
strong connections to traditions of East Germany. He finds that
“de-traditionalisation” is disturbing, and stated there is also no authenticity
anymore. In 2014, Lindemann presented two sculptures and his original
scripts of poems in his book In Silent Nights in a gallery in
Dresden. Lindemann has also written some lyrics in 2014 for German
schlager singer-song writer Roland Kaiser for his album Soul Tracks. Lindemann
has stated that he “hates noise”, and would often go to a village in the north
between Schwerin and Wismar.
In 1986, he started to play drums for First Arsch,
also known as “First Art”: a play on words perhaps meant to distract the
authorities. It was a Schwerin-based punk band. They made one album titled Saddle
Up.
Till Lindemann also played in a band called Feeling B.
A song called Leid von der unruhevollen Jugend (Song of the
Restless Youth) is credited on the album called Hea Hoa Hoa Hoa Hea
Hoa Hea (1990).
Later in the 1990’s, Lindemann began to write lyrics,
possibly based on phrases and words from poems that he was beginning to write.
He says he “used to drum in a punk band that consisted of bass and drums. We
used to work with guest-guitarists, usually Paul Landers and Richard Kruspe.
We did a short tour where I changed instruments with the bassist in the encore,
that was such a success, that Richard insisted on starting a project in which I
would sing. Other people joined the band but only
when I left Schwerin for Berlin did it take serious form.”
when I left Schwerin for Berlin did it take serious form.”
In 1994, they entered and won a contest in Berlin that
allowed them to professionally record a four track demo. Till Lindemann moved
to Berlin. Paul Landers formally joined the band, followed by the last member
to join, Christian ‘Flake’
Lorenz.
It’s well documented that all the band members had
women problems about the time Herzeleid was written, and this
appears to have provided Lindemann with excellent writing material. Herzeleid was
finally released in September 1995. Two years later, in August 1997, the band’s
breakthrough album, Sehnsucht, was released.
On June 5, 1999 in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA) Till
Lindemann and Flake Lorenz were arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious
behavior. A statement from Sgt. Thomas Radula
of the Worcester Police Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Flake onstage “using a phallic object that shot water over the crowd.” They were held and released the following day on $25 bail. After months of legal debate, they were eventually fined 100.
of the Worcester Police Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Flake onstage “using a phallic object that shot water over the crowd.” They were held and released the following day on $25 bail. After months of legal debate, they were eventually fined 100.
Consequently, in November 2002 Lindemann’s own
project, the poetry book Messer, was published. It consists of 54
poems compiled by Gert Hof, who is author of the book Rammstein and
has been the band’s pyrodesigner for the last seven years. This book is due to
be re-printed in 2005 due to a campaign by a fansite
In 2003 he started work on the fourth album, which was
to prove a turning point in Rammstein’s sound and maturity. September 2004 saw
the fruits of this work in the release of Reise Reise. As of 2005,
Lindemann continues to work with Rammstein. As stated previously in various
interviews, the loss of Till Lindemann, or any other band member, will be the
end of the band proper.
Rammstein are scheduled to release a new album
(Rosenrot), containing new songs and songs remaining from the recording of
Reise Reise, on November 7th, 2005.
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