Till Lindemann (b. January 4, 1963) is a German musician and poet who is most notable as being the frontman and lead-vocalist for the German Tanz-Metall ("Dance metal") band Rammstein.
Personal Characteristics
Lindemann has a powerful onstage presence and a resonant bass voice. One of his signature moves is to partially squat and pound his fist onto his thigh to the beat of the riff, in the manner of a deranged blacksmith. One of his most distinguishing characteristics is a tendency to roll his 'R's, and growl his 'ach's.
Lindemann is a qualified pyrotechnician. After an accident at the Treptow arena in Berlin on September 27, 1996, where a burning stage prop fell into the audience, Rammstein began employing a professional pyrotechnical crew and Lindemann has learned from and also trained with them. Each band member is specially instructed on the pieces of pyrotechnical equipment they use on stage. Of Lindemann, bandmate Christoph Schneider says, “Till gets burned all the time, but he likes the pain.”
According to Lindemann, he likes Chris Isaak, Marilyn Manson, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, KMFDM and jazz music. He says, "for me Kraftwerk was the first real German band."
At one time, Lindemann had his left ear pierced twice, but has not worn earrings for a long time. The two holes in his ear are visible in most videos and pictures. Despite rumours, Lindemann has no tattoos.
Lindemann is a self-described atheist and some of his songs are about God and religion.
As of October 2004 he has four children: two girls and a boy; the name, date of birth and sex of his fourth child is unknown. He is also a sort of stepfather to Khira Li Lindemann, the daughter of his ex-wife by bandmember Richard Kruspe.
Lindemann is also able to play the drums, guitar and bass. In the live performances of 'Los', Till is seen playing a harmonica. Till cannot play the harmonica, therefore, Flake plays the harmonica piece on the keyboard to make it seem as if Till is playing it.
Personal background
Till Lindemann from Live aus Berlin era.Lindemann was born in Leipzig, but he grew up in the village of Wendisch-Rambow in Schwerin (East Germany). His father, Werner Lindemann, was a poet, and his mother, Brigitte "Gitta" Lindemann, is an artist and writer who has co-written at least one book with her husband. Lindemann has one sister, six years younger than himself. At age 11 he went to a sports school at the Rostock Sport Club, and from 1977-1980 attended a boarding school. His parents divorced in 1975, when he was age 12.
In the years 1976-1979, Lindemann was a good swimmer who became junior vice-European champion and was considered to be a swimmer in the Olympics 1980. But he left the sports school in 1979. It is possible that he was thrown out of sports school due to his sneaking out, unaccompanied, of a hotel in Italy on a swimming tour. But he also suffered an injury, a torn abdominal muscle - so either reason could be valid. According to Lindemann, "I never liked the sport school actually, it was very intense. But as a child you don't object."
His first job was at a peat cutting company, but he was fired after three days. He worked as an apprentice carpenter, a gallery technician, and was most well-known as a basket-weaver.
In 1981, Lindemann apparently refused to do his 18 months' compulsory military service and was almost imprisoned because of the refusal.
In 1985, when Lindemann was 22, his first daughter, Nele, was born. Lindemann and Nele's mother married after she was born, but they separated and he has raised Nele alone. Lindemann says, "I used to play drums in a punk band and we had our studio in the house where I lived. Seven years I had been a father raising his daughter, but nowadays I'm sharing the upbringing with her mother, because I'm gone for six months of the year with the band."
The Berlin Wall came down November 9, 1989, and Germany started its path to reunification. On this, Lindemann says, "After the wall had been opened, I drove to West Germany and bought gummy bears and yogurt for my salutation money. But there wasn't anything else."
His father died in November of 1992, of the effects of alcohol. He was buried in the grounds of a church near Wendisch-Rambow. Most believe he has never visited his grave.
Lindemann had a second daughter with Anja Köseling, his former partner/wife. Köseling claimed Lindemann abused her physically during their relationship. She also claims that Till once punched her in the nose during a drunken row in a hotel room and that he refused to pay child support for their daughter, Marie-Luise (b. ca. 1993). Lindemann has never commented on her claim.
In an interview with Richard Zven Kruspe, he stated that Rammstein will keep playing until one of them dies. Paul H. Landers stated in a 2005 interview that Till has a girlfriend who speaks Spanish and helped him write "Te quiero puta!" ("I love you, whore!").
And in a 2005 interview with the German Playboy, Lindemann stated that he had finally found "a woman he could spend the rest of his life with."
Trivia
He is 6 feet 3 inches tall.
He is good friends with England and Bayern Munich midfielder Owen Hargreaves
Ayreon frontman Arjen Anthony Lucassen has stated on his website that he would love to have Till appear on a future Ayreon album, but he'd "have to write the parts in German" or create an "evil character".
Movie appearances
In 2003, Till made an appearance as a villain, in a made for television movie for children titled Amundsen, der Pinguin. His character tries to steal a penguin who knows the location of treasure.
Till plays an animal rights activist in a movie called Vinzent.
Till made brief appearances in the movies xXx as himself along with the rest of Rammstein (2002) and Pola X (1999).
He has appeared on many soundtracks such as: xXx, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Lost Highway, The Matrix, and many others.
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