Young and dad A literary portrait of till Lindemann Rammstein till

In Russian language is released diaries of the German writer Werner Lindemann, father of the leader of the rock band Rammstein till Lindemann. Despite the fact that the original edition was out of print long before the creation of the band Rammstein, in the days of the GDR, Boris Barabanov believes that the book, “Mike Oldfield in the rocking chair” will be useful both to researchers of the phenomenon Rammstein, and fans of the history of Germany before and after unification.1982. Prosperous and favored by the authorities of the children’s poet lives in his country house. Wife and daughter spend time in a city apartment, and his son, 19-year-old Timm, comes to his father to work as a carpenter. Timm hangs in the village for a year, and all the while dad keeps a diary, in which observations of the offspring mixed with pastoral images of rural life and memories of his youth, which came in the Second world war. These notes Werner Lindemann decided to publish in 1988. Future musician was indignant despite the fact that his father moved the narrative into the category of poluhudozhestvennogo, still, everyone understood that the name of Timm he is hiding. About his relationship with the father of till Lindemann recounted in an interview with the publisher Helge Malkova. Interviews were issued under one cover with diaries as a comprehensive afterword, and that’s just in it for the first time mentioned the band Rammstein. Timm in the book Lindemann — a young man accustomed to physical labor and serious about swimming, and music in his life yet there is only music as a hobby. The band Rammstein appeared only in 1994, a year after the death of Werner Lindemann. After many years it was the tearing of the eardrum, the sound will be an integral part of the style of Rammstein. It is quite possible that till Lindemann was influenced by the musical tastes of his father. Werner Lindemann cope with the mood swings, listening to the 7th Symphony of Beethoven, and this is the time to remember that another important feature Rammstein — symphonic, operatic pathos inherent in classical rather than rock ‘ n ‘ roll. The book Timm all as a German youngster in the early 1980s: long hair, album Puhdys on the player, the buddies hippies and girls, none of which he prefers. “What is poisonous, I turn into mush,” says Timm, stepping on a mushroom-a toadstool, and it sounds quite rammsteins.Timm not for a moment believe Communist propaganda, but not sure I’m ready to escape to Germany like many of his peers. Father, in real time, watching to see how beliefs are formed young men. “What a disgusting — what the Germans have done! exclaims the young man after watching the film about the Second world war.— And you don’t have any against it?” — “I was 15,” says his father. “Against war is possible to do something in 15”.
This is the point of view of the guy which in real life would devote his life to the understanding of Germany as a cultural, philosophical and geopolitical phenomenon and will lead the group business card of the country. And his father in the episodes-memoirs of his own youth. Lindemann Sr. was in the Hitler youth in the last years of the war in full fought with the Soviet Union. No longer believing in any victory, guided by a sense of duty, as he understood it, and simply performing teams of senior rank.Years after the war, he became a popular poet who chose the hassle-free specialization — children’s poems (the leader of Rammstein, by the way, also publishes poetry collections). “Politically it is easier to write a children’s book than a book for adults, which is not so easy to hide,” says Lindemann, Jr. The poet went to the celebration of the memory of Janis Rainis in Latvia, and to him, to “Trabant”, scarce porcelain, gum and plastic Indians, there were guests from Kazakhstan. And then the Berlin wall collapsed, and this, according to son, it was for Werner Lindemann the end of all privileges, the completion of a good life: “It was a nightmare”. Father and son shared shelter and bread, build carts, quarrel, fight, listen to Mike Oldfield and trying to understand how their homeland, what happened is what happened.