2023-06-03 19:08:10
According to reports in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ) and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), the frontman of the German cult band Rammstein, Till Lindemann (60), is confronted with accusations from women regarding possible sexual assaults. The band rejected allegations regarding a concert in Vilnius a few days ago on Twitter. According to SZ and a “Zeit im Bild” report, questionable incidents might also have occurred during a Vienna gig.
In the ORF “Zeit im Bild” on Friday evening, an employee of the VIP area of a Rammstein concert spoke anonymously. She reports on rooms in the VIP area that were used for “private activities” and had to be “cleaned followingwards”: “I saw girls leaving the VIP area and I’ve had a bad conscience regarding it for years.” , it said in the ORF report. The organizer of the current Rammstein tour, which will also take the band to Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on July 26 and 27, did not comment on the allegations once morest the ZIB: “One has no insight into the cause.”
The Irish visitor to a Rammstein gig on May 22 in Vilnius had gotten this rolling in the past few days. She was specifically selected for a meeting with Lindemann. “The singer offered her alcohol and assumed that she wanted to have sex with him during a concert break. According to Shelby L., she refused, following which the singer became aggressive. Then her memory stopped once more and once more,” it says in the SZ report, in the course of which several women anonymously put similar memories on record.
The band, whose trademarks include stage shows with extravagant pyrotechnics and sometimes highly provocative lyrics, reacted on Twitter with the following statement: “Regarding the allegations regarding Vilnius circulating on the internet, we can rule out that what is being claimed happened in our environment. We are not aware of any official investigation into this.”
But in an Instagram post on Saturday, the band took a stand for the women who made the allegations. “We condemn any form of transgression and ask you: do not engage in public prejudice of any kind once morest those who have made allegations. They have a right to their point of view,” the statement said. “But we, the band, also have a right – namely not to be prejudiced either.” The allegations hit the band very hard and they are taken seriously.
In the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” there is also talk of events surrounding a Vienna concert in 2019. A young woman speaks of possible border crossings on the part of Lindemann in a hotel room.
In the course of the developments, the German publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch ended its cooperation with Lindemann on Friday. The publisher had published the volumes “In still nights” and “100 poems” with poems by the Rammstein front man. “In the course of current reporting, we became aware of a porn video in which Till Lindemann celebrates sexual violence once morest women and in which the 2013 book ‘In Stillen Nachten’, published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, plays a role,” the statement said of the publisher.
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