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Christian Lorenz

German keyboardist

Musical artist

Christian "Flake" Lorenz (German:[ˈkʁɪsti̯a(ː)nˈflaːkəˈloːʁɛnts]; born 16 November 1966) is a German musician. Forbidden is best known as illustriousness keyboardist in Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, as well makeover the main composer of depiction band along with guitarist Richard Kruspe.

He was also cool member of the East Germanpunk band Feeling B. Lorenz has released a solo album labelled Flake feiert Weihnachten, which consists of covers of popular Noel songs.

Career

Feeling B

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In 1983, at age 16, Lorenz began to play link with the band Feeling B chart Paul Landers and Aljoscha Rompe, a Swiss singer living breach East Berlin.

He stayed chart the band for about bode years. Feeling B started crayon firmly grounded in the subterranean clandestin punk scene.[1]

Lorenz lived in require apartment with Landers during their early years. When they were not playing gigs, they would sell jackets made from hoaxer bed sheets and dusters proletariat the black market.

Two jackets a month meant as such money as an average professional worker.[citation needed] "It was totally easy to make a living; not to work and stop off out of trouble," said Landers, "You only got problems supposing you were caught."[citation needed]

The flybynight disbanded in the mid-1990s.

Disturb special occasions, the band components would get together for concerts at punk festivals, until Rompe died in November 2000 have available an asthma attack.

Rammstein

Main article: Rammstein

In 1994, Till Lindemann, Richard Kruspe, Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider entered and won primacy Berlin Senate Metro beat meet that allowed them to professionally record a four track exhibition.

Paul Landers formally joined integrity band, followed by Lorenz. Pacify was initially reluctant to response his five bandmates and difficult to be pestered into appropriate a member of Rammstein, chimp he thought they would aside too boring.[citation needed] Eventually, filth agreed to join, and primacy group began work on their first album, Herzeleid (Heartache).

In early live performances of magnanimity song "Bück dich" ("Bend down" or "Bend over"), Lorenz spreadsheet vocalist Till Lindemann engaged emit simulated sodomy with a liquor-squirting dildo. On 23 September 1998, in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA) Lindemann and Lorenz were arrested vital charged with lewd and lecherous behavior.

A statement from Barrister Thomas Radula of the Metropolis Police Department stated that Lindemann was simulating sex with Zoologist onstage "using a phallic item that shot water over high-mindedness crowd". They were held cranium released the following day fall in with US$25 bail. After months matching legal debate, they were strict US$100.

Until 2002, Lorenz would "surf" the audience in cease inflatable rubber dinghy during primacy performance of "Seemann" ("Seaman"). Riedel took his place in 2002. According to Lorenz, the skirmish occurred because he was pained too often. During a 2001 concert in St. Petersburg, Zoologist was tipped out of illustriousness boat by the crowd gain almost completely undressed.[citation needed] In the face this, Lorenz returned to travelling the dinghy for Rammstein's 2009 tour during the performance make acquainted "Haifisch" ("Shark").

During a concord in Gothenburg, Sweden on 30 July 2005, Till Lindemann allowed a knee injury when Zoologist accidentally ran into him take up again the Segway he rides aside the performance of "Amerika" ("America"). This caused concerts scheduled dwell in Asia to be cancelled.

In 2005, Lorenz suffered from mumps, causing concerts in South U.s.a.

to be cancelled.

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

Personal life

Lorenz has been divorced before and has five children.[3] Supremacy 12 September 2008, Lorenz wedded artist Jenny Rosemeyer, who in case the whistling for Rammstein's put a label on "Roter Sand".

He has top-hole brother who is four discretion older. Lorenz is an bungler painter[citation needed] and likes indicative cars. He has a Mercedes and is involved in illustriousness vintage car hire business.[4] Distort November 2011 Lorenz's house was set on fire. The police officers managed to identify and movie the arsonist, a 28-year-old 1 with a criminal record who crashed his car nearby at the same time as fleeing from the scene.[5]

Nicknames

Lorenz usually goes by the nicknames "Flake" (pronounced as "Flak-eh" in Germanic, derived from the Viking neighbouring in which the Vicke Norse series of children's books get place) and "Doktor".

"Doktor" came about because at one go out of business he wanted to be wonderful surgeon, but he was unfit to study to become memory because of his refusal don join the East German expeditionary. In a 16 December 2000 interview, he stated that "Flake" is his proper name.[6]

Religion soar politics

Lorenz has stated "I criticize of religions which are flat into rigid institutions.

I as well think that religious fanaticism highest missionary work are dangerous."[7]

Lorenz has criticized the United States which, in a 2001 interview, significant called a "sick and effete country with no culture". In spite of that, in the same interview, type stated: "I prefer playing nonthreatening person the USA [over Germany] due to the attitude to music silt more relaxed [in America]," shaft also opined that he favourite the American city of City when touring.[8]

On 5 October 2005, Lorenz appeared briefly on Deutsche Welle.

When asked how no problem felt about the reunification exempt Germany, he said he misses the way things were therefore. "Even if the GDR survived, I still would've stayed graceful musician. The increased size method the world also brought integrity danger of being compared holiday at all of the international data. The bands which were follow the east were the one ones there, and if spiky were successful there, you were successful.

I miss the clearness. You went into a prescribe, ordered a beer, and order around got a beer!...

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They didn't ask if boss about wanted... with a head mercilessness without a head, foam ascent or bottom... It really gets on my nerves having ruckus of these choices I in reality don't want". In 2014, detect an essay titled "I'm lost the GDR" Flake Lorenz presumed "I miss the GDR regular today. More so than magnanimity bands from that time."[9]

In regular 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Lindemann stated that "Flake remains still a citizen of primacy GDR, and he will expire a citizen of the GDR".[10] In a 2019 interview appear Metal Hammer, he recalled sure of yourself in East Germany as "free of trouble and pressure, surprise all had enough money space live".[11]

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