100 Poems

Autorentext

Till Lindemann was born in 1963 in Leipzig, the son of children's book author and writer Werner Lindemann and journalist Brigitte Lindemann. In his youth he was a competitive swimmer and was short-listed to go to the 1980 Olympics in Moscow but an injury ended his participation in the sport. He worked as an apprentice carpenter, a gallery technician, a peat cutter and a basket weaver. In 1994 he became singer and lyricist for Rammstein. He lives in Berlin. His first book of poems, Messer, was published in 2005. On Queit Nights was originally published as In stillen Nächten in 2013.

Klappentext

Till Lindemann is known as the singer and lyricist of the band Rammstein. But he has also been writing poetry for over 20 years. His short, incisive poems hit the reader directly, surprising and rattling us. The poems circumscribe Till Lindemann's cosmos of themes in constantly new and original variations, often calling to mind traditions of German poetry since Romanticism: Nature. The body. Loneliness. Violence. Love. Evil. Animals. Pain. Beauty. Language. Death. Sex...Till Lindemann plays with the classic poetic forms of verse, folk songs, counting rhymes and ballads, always finding his very own tone, which also includes humor and irony. After Messer and On Quiet Nights a remarkable new collection of poems-not just for Rammstein fans.