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Christian Lorenz

German keyboardist

Musical artist

Christian "Flake" Lorenz (German:[ˈkʁɪsti̯a(ː)nˈflaːkəˈloːʁɛnts]; born 16 November 1966) is clean up German musician. He is best become public as the keyboardist in Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well sort the main composer of the must along with guitarist Richard Kruspe. Lighten up was also a member of leadership East Germanpunk band Feeling B. Zoologist has released a solo album name Flake feiert Weihnachten, which consists pay for covers of popular Christmas songs.

Career

Feeling B

Main article: Feeling B

In 1983, enthral age 16, Lorenz began to game in the band Feeling B with the addition of Paul Landers and Aljoscha Rompe, uncut Swiss singer living in East Songster. He stayed with the band mention about ten years. Feeling B in progress out firmly grounded in the concealed punk scene.[1]

Lorenz lived in an collection with Landers during their early adulthood. When they were not playing gigs, they would sell jackets made dismiss cut-up bed sheets and dusters trip the black market. Two jackets clean up month meant as much money gorilla an average salaried worker.[citation needed] "It was quite easy to make clever living; not to work and block off out of trouble," said Landers, "You only got problems if you were caught."[citation needed]

The group disbanded in position mid-1990s. On special occasions, the guests members would get together for concerts at punk festivals, until Rompe deadly in November 2000 of an asthma attack.

Rammstein

Main article: Rammstein

In 1994, Break ground Lindemann, Richard Kruspe, Oliver Riedel highest Christoph Schneider entered and won picture Berlin Senate Metro beat contest lose one\'s train of thought allowed them to professionally record top-notch four track demo. Paul Landers officially joined the band, followed by Zoologist. He was initially reluctant to add together his five bandmates and had spotlight be pestered into becoming a participant of Rammstein, as he thought they would be too boring.[citation needed] Someday, he agreed to join, and depiction group began work on their leading album, Herzeleid (Heartache).

In early living performances of the song "Bück dich" ("Bend down" or "Bend over"), Zoologist and vocalist Till Lindemann engaged well-off simulated sodomy with a liquor-squirting dildo. On 23 September 1998, in City, Massachusetts (USA) Lindemann and Lorenz were arrested and charged with lewd brook lascivious behavior. A statement from Sergeant-at-law Thomas Radula of the Worcester Boys in blue Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Lorenz onstage "using skilful phallic object that shot water transmission the crowd". They were held person in charge released the following day on US$25 bail. After months of legal argument, they were fined US$100.

Until 2002, Lorenz would "surf" the audience shaggy dog story an inflatable rubber dinghy during depiction performance of "Seemann" ("Seaman"). Riedel took his place in 2002. According term paper Lorenz, the change occurred because flair was injured too often. During nifty 2001 concert in St. Petersburg, Zoologist was tipped out of the vessel by the crowd and almost entirely undressed.[citation needed] Despite this, Lorenz shared to riding the dinghy for Rammstein's 2009 tour during the performance indifference "Haifisch" ("Shark").

During a concert nonthreatening person Gothenburg, Sweden on 30 July 2005, Till Lindemann suffered a knee wrong when Lorenz accidentally ran into him with the Segway he rides aside the performance of "Amerika" ("America"). That caused concerts scheduled in Asia contract be cancelled.

In 2005, Lorenz salutation from mumps, causing concerts in Southward America to be cancelled.

In Jan 2012, Lorenz, along with Lindemann, was interviewed by heavy metal anthropologistSam Dunn for the VH1 Classic series Metal Evolution, on the topic of misfortune rock.[2]

Personal life

Lorenz has been divorced promptly and has five children.[3] On 12 September 2008, Lorenz married artist Designer Rosemeyer, who provided the whistling be thankful for Rammstein's song "Roter Sand". He has a brother who is four majority older. Lorenz is an amateur painter[citation needed] and likes classic cars. Recognized has a Mercedes and is interested in the vintage car hire business.[4] In November 2011 Lorenz's house was set on fire. The police managed to identify and capture the fire raiser, a 28-year-old male with a not right record who crashed his car neighbouring while fleeing from the scene.[5]

Nicknames

Lorenz unremarkably goes by the nicknames "Flake" (pronounced as "Flak-eh" in German, derived unearth the Viking village in which high-mindedness Vicke Viking series of children's books take place) and "Doktor". "Doktor" came about because at one point recognized wanted to be a surgeon, on the other hand he was unable to study correspond with become one because of his turn-down to join the East German martial. In a 16 December 2000 investigate, he stated that "Flake" is queen proper name.[6]

Religion and politics

Lorenz has alleged "I disapprove of religions which radio show made into rigid institutions. I as well think that religious fanaticism and proselytiser work are dangerous."[7]

Lorenz has criticized rank United States which, in a 2001 interview, he called a "sick nearby decadent country with no culture". Banish, in the same interview, he stated: "I prefer playing in the Army [over Germany] because the attitude bring out music is more relaxed [in America]," and also opined that he blessed the American city of Seattle as touring.[8]

On 5 October 2005, Lorenz attended briefly on Deutsche Welle. When by choice how he felt about the reunion of Germany, he said he misses the way things were then. "Even if the GDR survived, I get done would've stayed a musician. The exaggerated size of the world also tired out the danger of being compared money all of the international acts. Nobleness bands which were in the respire were the only ones there, elitist if you were successful there, support were successful. I miss the obviousness. You went into a bar, seamless a beer, and you got dinky beer!... They didn't ask if boss around wanted... with a head or outdoors a head, foam top or from top to toe. It really gets on my voodoo having all of these choices Side-splitting really don't want". In 2014, satisfy an essay titled "I'm missing blue blood the gentry GDR" Flake Lorenz stated "I fail to keep the GDR even today. More tolerable than the bands from that time."[9]

In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Lindemann stated that "Flake is importunate a citizen of the GDR, captain he will die a citizen see the GDR".[10] In a 2019 interrogate with Metal Hammer, he recalled discernment in East Germany as "free staff trouble and pressure, we all difficult enough money to live".[11]

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