Tour jet set in the festival summer of 2023. The double concert in the Swiss capital Bern has been played. The Rammstein circus moves on. A Swiss airport spotter has now taken some pictures of Till Lindemann boarding a private plane. Alone?
We don’t know whether the colleagues took off with another machine. But if so: That would be neither particularly ecological, nor would it indicate an intimate relationship between the Berlin group of miners. Is this what the much-quoted “crack” looks like, which has already been indicated after the statement by drummer Christoph Schneider!?
Rammstein’s stadium trip lasts until the first week of August. There are still 18 appearances to be played, tomorrow, Friday (June 23rd) in Madrid, then in Lisbon.
While the “Row Zero” scandal was greeted with astonishment on the Iberian peninsula – the national daily newspaper “El Pais” published a large feature by its Berlin correspondent – protest notes against the three performances are piling up in the band’s home country in the Olympic Stadium.
Various petitions are addressed to Berlin’s Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD), Culture Senator Joe Chialo (CDU), Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) and Timo Rohwedder, Managing Director of stadium operations. Concert promoter MCT, which also organizes the shows for Kraftwerk, is under pressure to justify itself. A demonstration has now also been registered for the first Berlin event.
One spokesman is the activist Britta Häfemeier, who heads the “Gender Equality Media” association. She sees the Senate as responsible. Interior department head Spranger justified the cancellation of the after-show party with the “protection of women”. “With this argument, she can also influence the operators of the Olympic Stadium and put pressure on them to cancel the concerts,” Häfemeier told the Berliner Zeitung. At the request of the broadcaster RBB, specialist lawyers who were called in consider cancellations of the sold-out concerts “improbable without a completed procedure”.
To de-escalate, it should also be said that the OFFICIAL Rammstein after-show parties are largely harmless to men and women. More conventional hang-out events after the concert; with free drinks, industry gossip and a VIP parade. Banning them for “security reasons” smacks of alibi politics.
All further bans, as the debate about the municipal attempt to cancel Roger Waters’ concert in the (municipal) Frankfurt Festhalle has already shown, are entering a legal minefield. At the time, the Hessian administrative court overturned a Waters ban on the Main due to existing contracts.
Rammstein also still have legally valid agreements for the three sold-out Olympia Stadium gigs in July through their promoter. Only because of demands and petitions will the multi-million dollar Rammstein spectacle not be stopped in Berlin either.
And as long as there are no official charges against Till Lindemann, the justified indignation of many activists will remain. According to the local media, a ten-strong “awareness team” should see to it that everything is in order.