has our documentary series sanders, sally toys, africa and meet the founders empowering their continent through digital innovation, transforming work and health, and living conditions in their country, and inspiring the world with their ideas. condo valley africa watch now on the w documentary. ah ah, off to doesn't look in your really good i cool song, i almost shed a tear fall on it fits the times. ah! the german band ramstein is a total work of art. since 1995,

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. skilful 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 road,

ations and faith. 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 reflect attached to fi that came 70 lives at the ramstein are based in germany at the time it was the deadliest sho disaster in history. on the cover of their 1st album critic said the band post like heaven mention representatives of the master race. then as the way that the singer roses ours reminiscent the thumb of nazi demagogues

and in the very martial live 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 refill styles. 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 scan, michener said ramstein had gone too far. so is ramstein really far right? well,

not so fast. that's the taste for the prosecution. it's true that from the beginning the band shocks and provokes with songs about sadomasochism. and 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 fun punk band feeling b is for the band venture featured the 3 members who then full half of ramstein, guitarist paul landers keyboard are christian, clock, laurence and later drama. christoph snyder, langdon and flock, 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 schumann on a static 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, 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 support 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. 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 final. 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 for sure. 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 um um fog shirtless stood in as feeling the drummer on the 1988 tor. he now runs the strand pull a restaurant in near by shredding franklin, run the steel for 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. canadian, actually we're going to swearing and i will and will pick up our new drummer. i

fell gray up on this, i invited them over the feeling bigs enough at that 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 off of the benefit of many different drummers who filled in. so if you happen to mow, oh, so they would know what to play limited most of us at home and 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 acts yawn bomb. as a placebo, we just turn up at a camping side or on the beach in a truck clubs or to understand the doors would fly open. we weren't even announced

it was like a rain, an ard attack over here comes the band with fire. you compliment what's 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, well yosh and pow landers from feeling b. now ramstein, they banged out the rhythm here closer to peter. 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 con ramstein. singer tillman started out as a drama in the band 1st ah,

in near by farthing fox shit, le witnessed one of the band early concerts 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 the home home for him at volume. but that's why i remember that day so well in at least michelle, i was scared of august and excited. ultimately 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 as a till to play. and i was so happy on that. i didn't have to get on stage, look list as is initial to been amazon. ah,

ah ramstein sing a chill. lindman came from a broken home. his father vernon 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 dress til is a relatively normal person. 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. one quality forest and is competing. he had to 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 england. 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, it's like having a gun that was my 1st encounter with till to esther liz to contact louisa of the the to come in all seasons. yeah, i'd say then tell is rooted in a very grounded and elemental feeling, the little thumb feeling on dust does how to both 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. he was the cuba. 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 what is in this building. we met up with journalists of lewd

occur. 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 for feeling b. he was living here in a squatted house and 2 houses. her father on the street were living pol anderson aflac a lawyer 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 a very special district of his berlin because all the sold,

working houses were abandoned, abandoned, that they were empty. lots of them are occupied by the different persons and they moved here in the time her when the walk her machine 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 berlin 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 pike 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 state was here, some work for barbara and now it's an office during the concert happened more and more friends from east bell and were coming in to the room. and after the concert was over, they heard that the wall came down and this was an extremely important moment for understand because without the. busy fall of the building wall, there would have been no, i'm just, i gave it short 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 and cover fixing caught pores. and these guys either were waiting for us outside. so it was constant struggling with the security or the tech the bus after while you got drunk and then of course fights evolved was high tension and we a few gigs we just found out after a couple of songs. ok, my god. 80 percent of these guys are nazis in his ramstein biography lou to come also came to the conclusion that the accusations against the band were unfounded. all of the musicians they, they came from families that were all. busy 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 leveling, parents and punk as

a tongue as well. obviously you belong to the left wing seen and you fight against the right wing. people about an ac is usually there were clashes as well and they have been beaten by right wing pals and the pangs and not the other way long. this is what ramstein sing a till lindman has to say about the topic we own from east germany and grew up as socialists. we will all the punks of golf. 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 sta 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 guitarists. richard, crisper, though, the pick with 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 are finally choreographed. they do exploit the suggestive power of max events maximizing the emotional impact of the music and the spectacle. ramstein fans say the live shows or irresistible

do do honest, do asked me clearly intense to preview our control. i'm learning german for them. i just finished my 1st year. they wow. the nazis 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 reference style in the stripped video blue lenny region stoves. olympics film was co commissioned by the right ministry of public enlightment and propaganda and 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 visionary work of arts. even the la classic on dish is positive. ironically ramstein if will became the official song of the german team at the tokyo paralympics in august 2021. but what about rams? i members playing holocaust victims in the deutschland video. i . well, those images were released as 8 caesar 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. kamani 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, tillman greeted his band colleagues arrival on stage and rob dingey, holding up a welcome sign, seen as the band packing a refugee's welcome message. and a concert in poland were l. g. b t q writes were under attack. kristof schneider waved a rainbow flag side 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 hello. 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 covert pandemic was a hard time for fans of ramstein to truly spectacular life show. but in 2022, ramstein returned with a new studio album and a sold out tour in germany. it's spawn 5 hit singles, including the melancholic title track site. oh for then samson's 10. d. when should in so a lacroix to dietz. hi,

emily. i or h been or was this evidence of a softer ramstein? there were some harder riffs and plenty of black humor on thick sack. but the grotesque critique of beauty, ideals, and plastic surgery, alistair miles controversy. with

the final track on the album. you left many fans wondering if ramstein might be planning to cold a 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 of yeah, it's the sins of the letters tighten and dim physical in fluid. michelin

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