Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gregor Spitzen
[REGNUM] For weeks now, the German media has been rocked by a juicy scandal about alleged massive sexual abuse at the concert after-parties of Rammstein and its frontman Till Lindemann . Old Till, according to the German media, encroached on the unthinkable and, with particular cynicism, regularly did things that had never occurred to any of the rock stars since the early 1960s.
And he did, no less, the following: he invited to private parties with a private continuation of female fans. The ones that regularly go on tour at their own expense after their idols and hang around the stage in abundance at every concert. In the hope that one day they will be lucky and the stars will still endow them with their attention.
However, this is only one side of the coin, because the other side is engraved with the profile of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein - a man betrayed and defamed by those whom he once elevated to the heights of Hollywood Olympus. Till forgot that.
Let's leave the ephemeral questions of morality, morality and betrayal for the next time, because the subject of our material is not at all the moral image of the world's hard rock stars and not the decline in the morals of modern youth. You will probably laugh, but we will talk about the "Russian trace" in the case of sexual abuse backstage at Rammstein concerts.
According to the newspaper Die Welt, the Berlin prosecutor's office launched an investigation against 35-year-old Russian woman Alena Makeeva, who held the unofficial position of casting director in the Rammstein group.
“We can confirm that Ms. Makeyeva also appears as a defendant in the investigation against Lindemann,” a spokeswoman for the department told the Sunday edition. However, Makeeva herself claims that the Moscow prosecutor's office did not contact her, and refrains from commenting on sexual accusations.
If we move away from the German legal officialdom, the essence of the criminal charges brought against Makeeva is as follows. The casting director, relying on her own taste and rich life experience, compiled a short list of contenders for getting into the list of participants in post-concert parties. Then, without telling the “victims” about the true reason for the selection, she brought them to Lindemann.
The Rammstein frontman, in turn, according to the Berlin prosecutor's office, "committed sexual acts with them." Both members of the musical group are also suspected of drug trafficking. The girls at the parties were allegedly given drinks with so-called "knockout drops", making the "victims" more submissive and ready for any adventure.
From the point of view of independent jurisprudence, the absurdity of such accusations is obvious, as well as the hidden motives of the so-called "victims " who are hungry for worldly fame and money. However, the Harvey Weinstein case in 2017 has already opened the door to the gaping abyss, so it’s no longer possible to just hush up the scandal. Moreover, the other members of Rammstein have already behaved very ugly towards their leader, which clearly does not add points to the 60-year-old Lindemann in the eyes of the hypocritical public.
Thus, drummer Christoph Schneider wrote on the social network that Lindemann “moved away from us in recent years and created his own bubble. With their people, their parties, their projects.
“The singer's private events should not be confused with the group's official parties. Even if he believes that there were no criminal offenses, "things" happened, "which I personally do not consider normal. 'Structures' have grown that have transcended the boundaries and values of the rest of the group," wrote Schneider.
Schneider did not specify what kind of "abnormal things" happened at the concert afterparties. But he wrote that the expectations of the women attending the concert and the party regarding "having a good time" apparently did not coincide with Lindemann's expectations. “I feel sorry for them, and I sympathize with them,” drummer Rammstein emphasized.
To be honest, I don't even know who is more vile. Girls who pretend to be holy innocence and are sure that at concert parties rock stars drink only tea and talk about Dostoevsky's work? "Companions" of Till Lindemann, drowning their leader, to whom they owe literally everything? Employees of the Berlin prosecutor's office, who do not disdain the execution of a clearly political order? Or the German public, calling for an auto-da-fé of their idol, whom they literally recently carried in their arms?
However, let's be fair: Till Lindemann is also by no means an angel. He is independent, does not recognize any authority, allows himself to go against the public mainstream and even dares to openly express sympathy for Russia, which, as any German in the national media knows, is waging an “aggressive and unprovoked war against Ukraine.” In modern Germany, these crimes are classified as especially serious.
Let us cross our fingers in defense of Till and wish him to emerge victorious from this case, obviously embroidered with white thread and foul-smelling with human hypocrisy. As for Alena Makeeva, her role in this case is not so clear. However, she does not deserve to be labeled by the German media without evidence.
One thing is for sure: if Till Lindemann decides to move to Russia and rid himself of the society of those who are trying to "cancel" him, he will always be welcome there. For more than one generation of Russians has grown up on the work of Rammstein, and the frontman of the group is a truly cult figure for the Russian Federation.
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