Till Lindemann Biography
Till Lindemann a German, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, poet, and pyrotechnician known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.
He is well known for his muscular stature, amazing stage performances, and bass voice. He is as well known for his lyrics, some of which have caused controversy. Worldwide, Rammstein has sold over 45 million records, with five of their albums receiving platinum status.
Till Lindemann Age
Lindemann was born on January 4, 1963, in Leipzig, East Germany.
Till Lindemann Feeling B
Lindemann back in 1986, began to play drums for Schwerin-based experimental rock band First Arsch, who released an album titled Saddle Up in 1992 and as well played one song “Lied von der unruhevollen Jugend” with a punk band called Feeling B, which was the former band of Rammstein members Paul H. Landers, Christoph “Doom” Schneider and Christian “Flake” Lorenz, in 1989.
In his time in Feeling B, he played the drums in the band. In the 1990s, he started began to write lyrics. In 1994, the band entered and won a contest in Berlin that allowed them to record a four-track demo professionally. When questioned as to why Rammstein was named after the Ramstein air show disaster, he said he viewed images of the incident on television, and that he and the bandmates wanted to make a musical memorial. Lindemann then moved to Berlin.
Lindemann Rammstein
In hisearly years, because of his use of over-the-top pyrotechnics, he has burned his ears, hair, and arms. Bandmate Christoph Schneider commented, “Till gets burned all the time, but he likes the pain”. An incident in September 1996 caused a section of the band’s set to burn, and as a result, Lindemann got his certification in pyrotechnics so the band could perform with pyrotechnics more safely than it had previously.
Lindemann Controversial
On 18th June 1999, “Bück Dich” was performed in the same controversial manner at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon. In 1999, the band was blamed for the 1999 Columbine massacre, which they denied their music was a factor. In November 2002, Lindemann’s poetry book Messer was published.
It consists of 54 poems compiled by Gert Hof, the author of the book Rammstein and was the band’s pyrodesigner for the last seven years. In July 2010, Till, along with Flake, was interviewed by heavy metal anthropologist Sam Dunn for the VH1 Classic series Metal Evolution, on the topic of shock rock.
Till Lindemann Injuries
Till is not a stranger to injury, as he mentioned in Rammstein’s early career that he’d gotten burned several times with unprofessionally rigged pyrotechnics. At a performance in Sweden in 2005, he received a knee injury on stage when keyboardist Flake accidentally ran into him while riding a Segway PT.
This injury caused several tour dates in Asia to be canceled. In 2005, five Rammstein albums received platinum awards and the band also received the “World Sales Awards” for over 10 million sold copies worldwide.
Till Lindemann Albums
- Skills in Pills
- Herzeleid
- Mutter
- Liebe ist für alle da
- Live aus Berlin
- Sehnsucht
- Reise, Reise
- Völkerball
- Rammstein
- Brachiale Gewalt
- Rosenrot
- The Very Best of Rammstein
- Im Reich der Sonne
- Musik wie Munition
- Der musikalische Staub
- XXI
- Kein Engel
- Made in Germany 1995–2011
- Original Single Kollektion
- Rare Tracks
- Du riechst so gut ’98
- Paris
- Praise Abort (Remixes)
Till Lindemann Net worth
Till has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Till Lindemann Height and Weight
Till stands tall at a height of 6 feet 1 inch( 1.85 m) and has an average body weight.
Till Lindemann Family
Lindemann was born to children’s poet Werner Lindemann (father) and journalist and writer Brigitte Hildegard “Gitta” Lindemann (mother), who worked for Norddeutscher Rundfunk from 1992 until her retirement in 2002.
His parents met at a conference in Bitterfeld in 1959. Till has a younger sister named Saskia. At age 11, he went to a sports school at the Emperor Rostock Sports Club, and from 1977 to 1980, he attended a boarding school.
His parents resided separately for career reasons after 1975 and divorced when Till was still young. He resided together with his father for a short time, but the relationship was unhealthy; in the book Mike Oldfield im Schaukelstuhl, Lindemann’s father wrote about his own problems with alcoholism and the difficulties of being a father to a teenage Lindemann.
In the year 1978, her took part in the European Junior Swimming Championships in Florence, finishing 11th in the 1500m freestyle and seventh in the 400 m freestyle, swimming a time of 4’17″58; he was shortlisted to go to the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
Till Lindemann Married
Back on 28 February 1991, his ex-wife and his Rammstein bandmate Richard Kruspe had a daughter together named Khira, who shares her surname with Lindemann rather than Kruspe as her mother retained the surname when they divorced and never married Kruspe. as of April 2011 to November 2015, he had a relationship with a German actress and model Sophia Thomalla.
Till Lindemann Daughter
Till’s daughter, Nele, was born in 1985, and got mentioned in a German interview that he spent seven years as a single father. He as well has a grandson through Nele, who is referred to as “Little Fritz”. Lindemann has a second daughter with his former wife Anja Köseling, named Marie Louise, who was born in 1993.