The start of the tour is done. Double strike in Prague. Last weekend, Rammstein dug deep into the classics box at the Letnany airfield in the north of the city and integrated a few songs from the current album “Zeit” into their mega show. As to be expected: gigantic show effects from the adventure Pyro Land. For the cannibalism track “Mein Teil”, Till Lindemann stews Rammstein keyboardist Christian “Flake” Lorenz in a super cooking pot with a flamethrower. To “Pussy” the stage berserker swings on an oversized penis cannon and sprays the cheering fans with whitish foam…
All of this will also happen tonight at Leipzig’s Central Stadium. Provided, of course, that nature plays along. The German Weather Service (DWD) has predicted a “severe thunderstorm situation” for the Leipzig area. The raining down of “hailstones the size of a table tennis ball” is also prophesied to be “probable”.
For reasons of dramaturgy, such biblical storms may well fit the apocalyptic Rammstein program; In terms of security, things are quite different. “Exactly in the first hours of the concert it gets really critical,” says meteorologist Cathleen Hickmann from the DWD. On their set list are hurricane gusts with wind speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour and hailstones up to four centimeters in size. “Around 10 p.m., at the latest by midnight it should be over”.
So far, the organizers have no emergency plan up their sleeve. So far, it has been hoped that the extreme weather conditions will unload elsewhere. The Leipzig Public Order Office could – according to an assessment in the afternoon – prohibit the concert at any time. Cardholders should inquire prior to arrival. No turbulence is to be expected for the second concert on Saturday.