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the band has been stirring up emotions while becoming ever more popular. but what is behind the showmanship? i stayed show, reminiscent of a not see night to rally. ramstein love being controversial. they felt more than 22000000 records worldwide with get this songs in german that you owe stage productions skillful play with the contradictions of german history or par. they really far right from the start. they faced serious allegations. here's why. oh, the accusations are groundless. come with us on a ramstein journey to find out what makes the band take along the way. we'll visit for iconic ramstein locations and made people who could help us answer our

questions about the most german band ever. we will show you how soft the hardest german rockers really are, and we find out all about their roots in communist east germany. why is ramstein so controversial? first up there, named after rufus catastrophe, that came 70 lives at the ramstein are based in germany at the time it was the deadliest air show disaster in history. on the cover of their 1st album critic said the band post like heaven mention representatives of the master race. then there's the way that the singer roses pause, reminiscent for some of nazi demagogues.

and in the very martial life shows, doesn't this remind you a little bit of a night to rally? then there's the controversial use of footage from a film by hitler's favorite filmmaker, lenny reference style in a ramstein video reef and stars infamous film of the 1936 berlin olympics is used in the video for ramstein to cover of the depeche mode hit strips and one more scandal, band members dressed as jewish concentration camp prisoners in the video for deutschland, germany's anti semitism commissioner said ramstein had gone too far. so is ramstein greeley far right?

well, not so fast. that's the taste for the prosecution. it's true that from the beginning the band shocks and provoked with songs about sadomasochism and even cannibalism. but even the boys from ramstein deserve a fair trial. in order to fully understand ramstein, you have to go back to their routes back to the 1980s when germany was divided in capitalist west germany, nicole wanted a little peace in communist east germany. the font punk band feeling b is formed. the bank venture featured the 3 members who then full half of ramstein, guitarist paul landers keyboard are christian, clock. laurence and later drama christoph, schneider langdon and flacco were 1st introduced to an unsuspecting world in the

1988 east german roxanne documentary for often on to try and whisper and shout. we met up with the films director deja schuman on an astounded trip back to her when fission, where one of the feeling be gigs, he documented took place or the you all of her around here with almost eskoville. this is where it was just on to new. good. the burnable you to the stage was where does white building is now will to post turn up, give on from the back towards the road and over here was the audience flow to the sun go. so hopefully come over hello for him. if you have to realize that back in the communist east, everything that happened in the cities was closely monitored by the authorities on bottles to brochures high know,

so it was typical of that time that alternative music flourished in the province at little to your music builder old stone and introduce the one place you are a pound and make music in the east. there was no going back because there was no such thing as fame or success in communist east germany. you would take more seriously because you had something to say you were driven by something inside to make music. house music among fog shirtless stood in as feeling the drummer on the 1988 tor. he now runs the strand polar restaurant in near by shredding franklin reuben, the scene of the telephone rang and it was feeling b singer al jak, and he said, have you got time we're playing and vis more tomorrow. and we need a drummer. i said, i don't know the songs, no problem how we'll go through it a half hour rehearsal and then you'll be able to do it. even the courts into canceled us funding. actually we're going to sparing and i will and will pick up

our new drummer. i fall grey up. what on this i invited them over the feeling big scene at the time i'd seen feeling be playing a few times when i thought their show was so great. it was the show power landers put on starting. i realized it was offered the benefit of many different drummers who filled in. so if you happen to mow, oh, so they would know what to play limited was that was a common how would move in a certain way? if it were, i'm still it of only thing which is often brought up who is the concert on the beach and movie. there's a banner blowing in the wind with feeling be written on atlanta. you had a bunch of punk po going and i was sitting in a wicker beach chair and does it says m m a shunt co op. but it was funny to drum like that. it's a show which went to tom. these gigs were basically art happenings of the ox yawn

bomb. as a placebo, we just turn up at a camping side or on the beach in a truck or clubs or understand the doors would fly open. we weren't even announced it was like a rain, an ard attack. okay, here comes the band with fire. you compliment was had it, and we just wanted to play a young fool. the locals help schumann track down the blacksmith's work shop. that was the location for an experimental improvisation in his film more than 30 years ago. ah, i also with the ocean pow landers from feeling b now ramstein, they banged out the rhythm here. i gotta figure. and i'd say that this was later incorporated into ramstein music mimicry. so this blacksmith here is really one of the original places where ramstein was forged, trillion start ramstein singer chillman

started out as a drama in the band 1st ah, in nearby shaheen. fog shit, le witnessed one of the bands early concepts here there are of us yet. it was here. he bruna state with here was coming to an end of the i remember looking at the drum kit because they had asked me if i could be ready to jump in. if tell lindman couldn't make it as, as, as a tom lines playing come to lindon to, i can't remember why they said he might not show vomited for him at volume for us. but that's why i remember that day so well in at least michelle, i was scared of august and excited. oh, i'll click it will soon as well. i didn't really know what their music was like. it was new to me and lloyd did that one of them said, just play anything you don't. he was absurd and so on. but the band herndon guns up and the drummer was punctual didn't gazande a till to play. and i was so happy on that. i didn't have to get on stage. nuclear

does is nish off to be an amazon. ah, ah ramstein sing a chill lindman came from a broken home, his father. then lindman was a renowned children's book, author and poet in communist east germany. a local school, that is his father's name. for a while, chil lived with his father in the countryside. his father described the difficult relationship with his 19 year old son in one of his books. it ends with a fight after which till leaves home. nowadays though, when not untold, lindman spends a lot of time in the region where his mother and sister still live. i fish i hunt, i stay at the lake. i sleep in the woods at night, and listen,

i listen to nature for the locals. he's just another guy who wants his to, i'm dressed till his relatively normal person, has all the people known here. hello. everyone has had something to do with me. i believe he knows a lot of people in the village and he's actually a perfectly normal person. just like anybody else. and he's kept his feet on the growl. won't gravity, forms tend to pin him too. yeah. can i got to no tell when my tractor broke down, it's an open. yeah. it just wouldn't move them back. oh, good. and so i went off to the village, looking for someone who could lend me a battery or to start the tractor up gun on it. and then i bumped into till at the station and he came along and got me a battery game well enough. and we managed to get the tractor going again and i gave you that gun. that was my 1st encounter with tell to esther to contact elisa of the the to come in all seasons. yeah. i'd say then tell is rooted in

a very grounded and elemental feeling the both of them feeling on dust does how to of, of, and this does have something to do with this rule region here called flu. still he was a basket weaver for a time. oh no, no, he was always grappling with real tough physical things. and it's my belief that it was a softie from the city would never have made music like that music goober. no. be that is it may linda men met up with landers and flock her after a concert in her, in fisher lindman plus, feeling b, make up 2 thirds of ramstein. there is still definitely something of the east german, fun punk band discernible in ramstein were saying for example, performance. oh, it's a unique sense of humor and concerts on the beach. oh,

in berlin, feeling they had, i had horses in this building. we met up with journalists of lou decker, we wrote the best selling german ramstein biography. in the beginning, there was fire i was standing in front of the house of i use her own power, which was the lead singer of fulfilling b. he was living here in a squatted house and 2 houses. her father on the street were living pol anderson's aflac and all the building occupied by landers and christian flock. lawrence is empty. the name lawrence is still on the bell. the rundown building is a relic of another era in an area where gentrification has taken hold. but in the last years of communist east germany, the neighbourhood was

a hot bed of descent. it was the very special district of east berlin because all the sold, working houses were abandoned, abandoned. they were empty. lots of them are occupied by the different persons and they moved here in the time her when the walk home, shortly before the war came down. and that's where we were. the punk music were, was lift or by the people which was something like a kind of resistance her in opposition to her communist system. this opposition boils over in 1989. good evening once again in eastern europe. what was once inconceivable has become reality. on the night, the burning wall fell feeding bay had permission from the authorities to play in west berlin, landers and flock are, we're actually on stage when the news of the berlin wall falling broke,

completely unaware of the history unfolding outside the short lived rock venue. the pi club were ramstein members played on the night. the wall fell, was situated here in the alternative district courts, but not far from the border crossing between east and west. the premises are now occupied by creative community, friends of friends. i think states was here somewhere for barbara and now it's an office during the concert happened that more and more friends from east berlin were coming in to the room. and after the concert was over, they heard that the wall came down, and this was her an extreme important moment for ramstein, because without the fall of her bowling wall, there would have been no ramstein. garrett schultz works here as head of events in

the early ninety's. he played bass in various bands and supported feeling be on tours in eastern germany. he says the bands were often attacked by far right wing youths or did come affixing. caught puss and these guys either were waiting for us outside sir was a constant struggle with security or the attack the bus after while we on got drunk and then of course fights evolved was high tension and we have a few gigs which is fun out after a couple of songs. okay. my god. 80 percent of these guys are nazis in his ramstein biography of luda co also came to the conclusion that the accusations against the bank were unfounded. all of the musicians they came for families that were all close, even close to the system, all of them, even those who weren't involved in politics were raised most of them. and in left

winged households with left wing parents and pang as a punk as well. obviously you belong to the left their wing seen and you fight against the right wing people. about ne, says euclid, there were clashes as well, and they have been beaten by a right wing person to the pants, and not the other way long. this is what ramstein singer chill lindman had to say about the topic we owe from east germany and grew up as socialists. we were all i the punks, or goths. we hate nazis. so is the band really named after that horrific show catastrophe! the case for the defense with an early song ramstein was about the accident and the band became known as that band with the ramstein song. then the ramstein band.

and finally, ramstein the extra m was either a mistake or a diversionary tactic, allowing them to disclaim the connection. so yes, the band is named after the air show disaster. but while this may be evidence of bad taste in a well established metal tradition, is it evidence of extreme right wing leanings? next of the album cover, some said the boys presented themselves as members of the master race for guitarist richard crisper. though the pick was more like an and for a gay porno. the band was apparently freaked out by the cover art, and they had it changed before the albums, us release, or the bones life performances. oh hi, lee choreographed. they do exploit the suggestive power of max events maximizing

the emotional impact of the music and the spectacle. ramstein fans say the life shows or irresistible do do, honest, do ask me there are totally intense to praise you out of control. i'm learning german for them. i just finished my 1st year. wow, good. pat. denazi's were pioneers and masters of the art of persuasion of propaganda and mass communication. but the techniques they developed are to day commonplace in advertising, every major rock cake with a light show us a little to the night rallies. but what about the use of a film by nazi propagandist, then he reef and style in the stripped video blue lenny region stoves? olympics film was co commissioned by the reich, ministry of public enlightment and propaganda. a nazi government agency dedicated

to enforcing nazi ideology. nonetheless, there is a big debate about the artistic merits of the film. it was included in a, b, b, c, list of the $100.00 greatest films directed by women. ramstein have defended its use, arguing that good art knows no political allegiances and saying that the footage is an example of a vision, rework of arts even the la classic and ishmael published ironically, ramstein if will became the official song of the german team at the tokyo paralympics in august 2021. but what about ramps? i members playing holocaust victims in the deutschland video b . well, those images were released as

a teaser for the video rod. but when the full epic video came out, we saw ramstein playing teutonic nights. not sees east german communists and more. jemaya is played by a black actress. the song has been interpreted as critical of nationalism. the message is germany. i cannot love you because of all those terrible things in your past. let out a few things such a jest. ramstein are more likely left wing than right at a concert in germany till lindman greeted his band colleagues arrival on stage, and robert dingey holding up a welcome sign scene at the band packing a refugee's. welcome message. at a concert in poland were l g. b t q writes were under attack. kristof schneider waved a rainbow flag shide opposed to pick on instagram with the message equal rights for

all and we're not quite john. there's also the 2001 song links. why do i fear left to free for that said, basically, well, we're all lefties. ah, then the song against homophobia, man kagan man, denied and a tongue in cheek song against imperialism and colonialism. called how slender with ah ok,

the case for the difference arrests are the many accusations ramstein have faced over the years. it justified. it's up to you the jury to decide on the evidence present age. ramstein reputation rests with you. that covered pandemic was a hard time for fans of ramstein, truly spectacular life show. but in 2022 ramstein returned with a new studio album and a sold out all in germany. it's spawn 5 hit singles, including the melancholic title track site. oh for then samson's 10,

the number he benched in a moment, lacroix deeds high o b i o h been was this evidence of a softer ramstein? there were some harder riffs and plenty of black humor on sick sack. but the grotesque critique of beauty, ideals, and plastic surgery, alistair miles controversy with

the final track on the album a year left. many fans wondering if ramstein might be planning to corday to day. but the band have sought to reassure and will hit the road again. in 2023. they sold more than a 1000000 tickets for the european tour in just a few hours. hampshire still clearly having fun together and pushing the boundaries of good taste. because i am a substance p letters titan and im physical and school. with me she low ramstein

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