Till Lindemann
Till Lindemann is a German singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and poet, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the band Rammstein.
Born in Leipzig, East Germany, he grew up in Wendisch-Rambow near Schwerin. His father was children's poet Werner Lindemann and his mother, Brigitte "Gitta" Lindemann, was a journalist and writer. His parents lived separately for career reasons after 1975.
Lindemann started to play drums for First Arsch, who released an album titled Saddle Up, and played one song with a punk band called Feeling B (which was the former band of Rammstein members Paul H. Landers, Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz). In the 1990s, he 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 was the band's pyrodesigner for the last seven years.
“Und wenn mir nachts die Sonne scheintist niemand dader mit mir weint”
“Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.”