After Till Lindemann, another band member is also accused of sexual harassment.
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The German metal band Rammstein has been in the eye of the storm throughout the spring, when the band’s soloist, Till Lindemann, has been accused of inappropriate behavior and sexual abuse.
For the first time, another band member has also received serious accusations. NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung are reporting that two women have told Rammstein’s keyboardist by Christian LorenzFlake, 56, of sexually abusing them.
Lorenz denies all the allegations.
Another of the women says she was victimized in 2002, when she was 17 years old. The band Mutteralbum had been released the previous year. The woman says that she was looking for an autograph from Till Lindemann, the soloist Messerto the book.
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Later he had gone to a Berlin bar and after that according to Lindemann and Lopez. The direction was the keyboard player Lorenz’s home. At the end of the wet evening, Lorenz had sexually abused her, according to the woman.
The woman didn’t refuse sex, but says she didn’t want it. According to the woman, Lorenz knew that he was drunk and unwilling.
Tagesschau writes that the woman’s diaries and Therapist confirm the story. The family members also found out about what happened years before the current Rammstein uproar.
After the incident, the woman met Lindemann again and they had a brief relationship. He says he was in love with Lindemann, whom he admired.
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One of the women says that she was abused at the age of 22, in 1996. The alleged incident would therefore have taken place the year after the release of Rammstein’s first album.
The woman says that she was at the band’s concert, after which she went with them to a hotel to spend the evening. At some point, the woman had lost consciousness and woke up naked on the floor next to Lorenz.
He doesn’t know what happened that night, but he remembers that his stomach has never hurt as much as it did after that night. Her stomach had hurt for several days even after the evening, and the woman had difficulty moving after the night.
He had also told his friends and sister about the incident at the time. He didn’t want to talk about it publicly until he read a poem written by Lindemann in 2020, which tells about the rape of a drugged woman while she was sleeping.