TILL LINDEMANN Biography Lindemann was born in Leipzig, East

TILL LINDEMANN Biography Lindemann was born in Leipzig, East

TILL LINDEMANN
Biography
Lindemann was born in Leipzig, East Germany, but he grew up in the
village of Wendisch-Rambow near Schwerin (in then-East Germany). His father,
Werner Wolf was a native of Afghanistan who moved to Germany as a young
child, and his mother, Brigitte "Gitta" Hildegard Lindemann, was an artist and
writer until she retired. Lindemann has one sister; she is six years younger than he.
As a child, he occasionally suffered abuse at the hands of his alcoholic stepfather.
At age 11 he went to a sports school at the Rostock Sport Club, and from 1977 to
1980 attended a boarding school. His parents divorced in 1975. In 1978
Lindemann was a participant in the European Junior Swimming Championships in
Florence, but discontinued the sport soon after. According to Lindemann, "I never
liked the sport school actually, it was very intense. But as a child you don't object".
Lindemann later worked as an apprentice carpenter, a gallery technician, a peat
cutter, and a basket weaver. In 1981, he apparently refused to do his nine months
of compulsory military service and was almost imprisoned as a result.
In 1985, Lindemann's 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". Lindemann has a second daughter,
Marie Louise, with Anja Köseling. An interview with Richard Kruspe revealed that
Till has a total of four children.
Career
Lindemann started to play drums for First Arsch, who released an album
titled Saddle Up, and played one song ("Lied von der unruhevollen Jugend") with a
punk band called Feeling B (which was the former band of Rammstein members
Paul H. Landers and Christian "Flake" Lorenz). In the 1990s, Lindemann began to
write lyrics. In 1994, the trio entered and won a contest in Berlin that allowed them
to record a four track demo professionally. Lindemann moved to Berlin.
In November 2002 Lindemann's 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. In a radio interview
in 2004, Lindemann stated that he wants to retire at 50 to spend more time with his
children.
Stage persona
Lindemann has a powerful on-stage presence and a resonant bass voice. One
of his signature mannerisms is to partially squat and pound his fist onto his thigh to
the beat of the riff. His vocals are easily recognizable due to his tendency to roll his
Rs, and growl his achs.
Another attribute seen is his originality in his performances, such as setting
himself on fire in the video for "Rammstein" and his questionably obscene antics
in the '98 Family Values Tour when he performed "Bück Dich". Lindemann is also
a qualified pyrotechnician; after an accident at the Treptow arena in Berlin on
September 27, 1996, where a burning stage prop fell into the audience, Rammstein
began employing a professional pyrotechnical crew and Lindemann has learned
from and also trained with them. Of Lindemann, band mate Christoph Schneider
says, “Till gets burned all the time, but he likes the pain.”
He has also engaged in other masochistic acts on stage, such as whipping
himself and bludgeoning his head with a microphone until it bleeds.
Character
As for Till’s character, he belongs to the circle of such people, with whom,
while communicating, you can keep silence, I mean, you can say nothing and at the
same time understand everything. In his friends’ opinion, he is an honest, a sincere
and a devoted friend. Friendship is o great importance for him.
His showy behavior on the scene, songs, full of crazy ideas and violence
make a lot of fans think that Till has always been aggressive, gloomy, rude or even
heartless. It can be easily understood because the texts of his songs contain despair,
hope, depravity and many other insulting things. But in fact, a lot of sense is
disguised in his songs and not every person is able to understand them. With the
help of these songs Till expresses boredom and his internal world.
His lyrics are unusual because he “plays” different roles and tries to describe
his feelings. Some people even say that Till has to suffer alternating personality.
But it’s not true.
While giving interviews, when it comes down to his personal life, he is
serious and reserved. Actually, Till is gentle, romantic and thoughtful. We should
also say that he smiles very rarely because he is shy.
Although he possesses these character traits, he is success-driven and pushy,
that’s why he has managed to be looked up to all of the world.
In his own opinion, he considers himself to be a sensible person and a
passionate lover. Till says that he is a big child ignorant but innocent.
His best friend Gert Hoff doesn’t deny the fact that sometimes Till can be
lonely, reserved, pessimistic and melancholy as well as all ordinary people. While
spending time with his friends he is emotional, attentive but when it comes to
controversy he is hot-tempered but always stays tactful. Gert Hoff says that the
main point in Till’s character is that he is hospitable and strong-willed because he
is always ready to battle with all problems of life. A woman, which will be with
Till, will be the luckiest woman ever.
I my opinion, Till is a mysterious, a talented and an undoubtedly,
extraordinary personality, who deceives be respected.