Morgenstern

Richard Z. Kruspe, Berlin 04.06.2022, 22:02.

Total Guitar:Has anyone in the band ever been injured onstage?

Paul:Yes, but we like the pain. We used to have explosions on the stage, and Till [Lindemann, vocalist] would kneel right next to them so he could feel the pain. It had an effect on his hearing, but he likes it when it hurts. It doesn’t have to look good as long as it hurts. We’re from Eastern Germany, don’t forget, and we can take worse [than that]. Only the Chechens are tougher than us!

Till can also eat wine glasses, including the stem, but you have to be able to chew properly. There are so many show-offs where we come from. When you’re out in bars, people will give you dirty looks and bite through glasses to start fights. Those guys spit it out, but Till’s thing is to keep eating the whole glass while still staring and swalling it. Nothing happens if he does that.

Rammstein's Ausländer outro from their concert in Aarhus 22.06.2022, where Till Lindemann chases Paul Landers around with his microphone; Paul and Richard Z. Kruspe kiss; Christoph Schneider is mesmerised in the background; and the two guitarists are so immersed in each other that Till gets annoyed and breaks them up.

(event - behind the (teutonic) fire and flames - 08)

now this is a story all about how kruspe’s life got flipped, turned upside down and i’d like to take a minute, just sit right there i’ll tell you how he went on the longest roundabout goddamn journey to reach the land of freedom known as west berlin that he left within a year.

contains: richard, emotional writing, the gdr, the berlin wall, interview excerpts, maps, gifs, attempted chronicle of a mindbendingly long journey, crappy photoshops courtesy of yours truly, and a 50% chance of respecting richard immensely after reading