Recommendations of the Editorial team
A man doesn’t give up. Before the Cologne District Court, Till Lindemann had sued the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publisher against the termination of his book contract. And get right. The outline of June 2023 is “inadmissible”, as the judges now decided.
According to this judgment, the Rammstein singer could continue to publish his provocative poetry ribbons there. But that’s not the point. It’s about measuring morality and truth. None of legal scope should remain in the “Rammstein case”.
The publisher had justified the one-sided exit with Lindemann’s porn video “Till the End” from 2020, in which he would celebrate “sexual violence against women”. Depending on the perspective, Lindemann’s poem is also processed “in quiet nights”. A dildo occurs.
“Break of trust” and “mockery”
In the Kiwi-Kündungs argumentation, the unholy combination of art (“the lyrical ego”) and with the work of the author was mentioned. There was talk of “broken trust” and “mockery”. Lindemann would have exceeded “limits to us” in terms of dealing with women “.
Against the background that Kiwi yourself, “the lyrical ego” in the hard sex rhyme of “If you sleep”, the termination was now a kind of emergency brake. A mega scandal with mega episodes was in the room in 2023. The potato Lindemann had gotten too hot.
After all, a large publisher like Kiwi always has to keep an eye on the sensitivities of the other star authors. Crisis management was in demand, especially since Lindemann’s poetry effusions were not bestsellers. The obvious idea of a biography, which in turn would have brought fat sales, was still vague future music.
Now the Cologne district court writes in the family book: “Just like in the poem that the lyrical ego is an artificial figure, the people appearing in a cinematic work are basically to be regarded as such.” The public allegations raised at the time would not be resilient.
At most, “the suspicion of punishable behavior” had been in the room. So as far as the accusation that is morally accused of behavior, this could not justify this, ”said Lindemann’s law firm.
Six million (!) Fans on 135 pyrospectacle shows
At an online request from the specialist magazine “” “Börsenblatt” it says at Cologne’s Bahnhofplatz: “The publisher cannot imagine working with Till Lindemann again, and will exhaust all legal options to prevent this,” said Kiepenheuer & Witsch in a first statement.
Lindemann and the Rammstein team continues to fight; Supported by two renowned law firms with considerable personnel and financial effort.
And the supporters also form: In a longer round of talks on the Tallinn Music Week (April 3 to April 6), her long -time tour agent Scumeck Sabottka held her hand for Rammstein. There would have been no sex system under his aegis.
Most recently, another judgment at the Hamburg District Court became known on March 12. The news magazine “Der Spiegel” and the podcast of the Süddeutscher Zeitung/NDR were prohibited from various passages of their reporting. For example, the “Ko-drops”.
On their website, Rammstein has the European Tour plus the 2024 stadium concerts in the middle of the scandal storm: six million (!) Fans on 135 pyrospectacle shows. This could let the wind of history blowing about 2023. But don’t do it. You want to be right.