Rammstein
“Things happened that I don’t think are okay”: drummer moves away from Till Lindemann – a little
Rammstein drummer Christoph Schneider
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Allegations against Rammstein singer Till Lindemann have been circulating for weeks, so far the individual band members have remained silent. Now drummer Christoph Schneider has spoken up.
It’s been around three weeks since the Irishwoman Shelby Lynn made allegations on Twitter, as a result of which a discussion about Rammstein singer Till Lindemann flared up. At the band’s concerts, there was said to have been a row zero, to which selected women in particular had access. Some of them are said to have been brought to the singer after the concerts.
The band, through a lawyer, denied allegations that women at the group’s concerts were “anesthetized with knockout drops or alcohol to enable our client to perform sexual acts on them.” None of the six band members commented on the cause. Until this Friday. Drummer Christoph Schneider published a statement on Instagram in which he commented in detail on the matter.
Rammstein: This is what Christoph Schneider writes on Instagram
“The allegations of the last few weeks have deeply shaken us as a band and me as a person,” it says. Schneider writes that what is shared and printed about Till Lindemann on social media and in the press shocks him.
The 57-year-old writes that he does not believe that anything criminally relevant, such as the use of knockout drops or anything forbidden, happened. He had never seen anything like it, nor had he heard from anyone in the hundred-strong crew. “All I heard from Till’s parties were adults celebrating together.”
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The next sentence, however, strikes a slightly different tone: “And yet things seem to have happened,” writes Schneider, “which – although legally ok – I personally don’t think is okay.” A first, albeit gentle, distancing can be seen here. “Till has moved away from us in recent years and created his own bubble,” it continues. “With my own people, my own parties and my own projects. That made me sad, definitely.”
Schneider shows understanding for the women who felt uncomfortable at Lindemann’s parties: “I’m sorry for them and I feel compassion.” He mentions Shelby Lynn, who started the whole affair with her tweets, by name. He feels sorry for anyone who felt unsafe backstage. “For Shelby too, she deserved a great concert and a wonderful evening.”
At the same time, the drummer, who is one of the founding members of Rammstein, emphasized that every guest backstage is free to leave. He also opposed “paternalistic tendencies to deny women in their mid-20s the ability to make self-determined decisions about their sexuality”.
With his final sentence he then closed the ranks again: He would like a level-headed reflection and reappraisal, “also in our band. All together, the six of us. We stand together.”
source: instagram.com/christophschneider_official/