This is about German history and this is a complete Ramstein production. No movie scenes. The final piano is taken from the Ramstein song "Sonne" Try "Sonne" live from Moscow. Amazing!
@@Skrubb_Lord, Germania is the black woman and she represents the strength of Germany. Hence she is strong in the first encounter with Rome and then joins Rome and wears a crown of strength, but under the Holy Roman Empire she is beginning to be consummed as strength is in Rome and the religious who represent Rome. She is happy between WWI and WWII as Woodrow Wilson's "determinism" allowed Germany to attack other political views, but even stronger during WWII Nazi Germany's third Reich, and is captured by the Bader Meinhof RAF by accident in their terrorism in Western Germany, but is also gleeful at seeing strength also in the West, for she merely bids her time in Eastern communism as a soldier, but yells out her pride in being German. She has riches and dogs in this present age, but can also be in a wheelchair as she is weak in rejecting nationalism (I cannot give you my love), and she gives birth to dogs through interbreeding of the races and the white man is on his hands and knees as a dog before the lesser breed of race because of it. GERMANY OVER ALL. Now what was it all about? Finally, in the future with laser like in "Freejack" they are zeroing in on Germania to take her strength for the future and begin the cut while the crown is on her head inside the concentration camp, but she is dead and in a casket without the spaceship for the future at the very end. This is because only the spirit of THE ACT OF THE WILL is loved as the human is unnecessary in the future. Some Nazi who is rich, must have wanted to give forth this imagry knowing the demons are all that exist in hell as man is working towards no flesh as man is merely a beast (Psalms 49:20) as for humans the second body and soul are destroyed in hell fire (Matthew 10:28).
Rammstein uses a lot of synth. Basicly it's metal with techno. Industrial Metal. Rammstein themselves call their music dance metal. Maybe doesn't fit for every song, but it's a strong influence. No, there's no footage from movies. All shot for the video. Rammsteins music videos are like movies. They only work with the best international directors, some of them work with Lady Gaga, Madonna or Beyonce. 😄 And their early videos were heavily inspired by movies from David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino. This song is about the history of germany and in particular the love/hate relationship germans have with their country. There are lines like:"Germany, your love is a curse and blessing, my love I can't give to you", "Germany, the one who rises high will fall deep", "Germany, your heart in flames, want to love you and condemn you". The video shows scenes from roman times, medieval times, the church vs the people, WWI, WWII, Nazis, and the cold war, the communist eastern germany, and left wing terrorism in the 70s/80s, and even a fictional future in space. About the concentration camp scene: The band members don't wear stars only. There are also other symbols the nazis used for communists or homosexuals. So all kinds of groups of people they killed. The black woman symbolizes germania, the mythical queen of germany. So she's germany herself through all stages of history, in good times and bad times. Please react to Rammstein - Sonne (official video) Please check also their live qualities. Rammstein: Paris - Du hast (official video) It's an official live video from Paris. Their live shows are as spectacular and theatrical as the videos. It's almost performance art.
Sehr gut erklärt, Kompliment! Perfect explanation! Let me add: The translation of the lyrics may be a little bit helpful to understand the video, but knowing about (the bad parts of) the German history through the times would be way more helpful.
A little detail I wanna add is that the black woman in a lot of shots has something red and yellow on her or around her. Together with her being black she also represents the german national frag (black,red and yellow)
@@mehis1981 no worries xD but I'd say yellow and Gold are pretty much the same when it comes to describing the german flag. But you're right my good sir haha
Everything explained perfectly guy's- big applause from my side... and just adding to Anastasia: do also not miss live shows of Madison Square Garden... beside live shows in Paris I also want to recommended these to you Cheers guys...
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact? There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her. Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video
@@michaelgoetze2103 are you sure? I mean at his time (~1.600) Poland was the biggest empire in Europe, from Baltic up to the Black Sea. Roman Empire was gone at 15th century. 🤷♂️
@@KarsonNow 16 A.D. is the year 16 not 1600 - so it's the 1st century AD not 16th / 17th century. Micheal Goetze is absolutely right, this refers to the region Germania Magna (called this name by the Romans) and the scene most probably refers to the Battle of Idistaviso or the Battle of the Angrivarian Wall - the last of a series of battles and the end of the ambitions of the Roman Empire to conquer more territories of Germania Magna.
This video is a masterpiece, like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" or Björk's "All is full of love". This video has so many nuances and so many meanings (like the hanging, first the black woman has the eye patch on the right - means blind in the right eye because Nazi right wing terror - then in the next scene she has the eye patch on the left).
Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of Emperor Germanicus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings Mega
PS: RU-vid didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here: The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler. The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform. Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day. Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings.
You have cried a lot In the mind apart In the heart united We have been together for a very long time Your breath is cold The heart in flames You I Us You (plural) Germany My heart in flames Want to love you, want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold So young And yet so old Germany I I never want to leave you One can love you And want to hate you Overbearing Superior To take over To surrender Surprising To assault Germany, Germany over everyone Germany My heart in flames Want to love you, want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold So young And yet so old Germany Germany Your love is a curse and a blessing Germany My love I cannot give to you Germany Germany You I Us You (plural) Superior Needless Übermenschen Weary The higher you climb, the farther you fall Germany, Germany over everyone Germany My heart in flames Want to love you, want to damn you Germany Your breath is cold So young And yet so old Germany Your love is a curse and a blessing Germany My love I cannot give to you Germany
You should also write what they sing here in background. Thats also important: You (You can, you can..) I (I know, I know...) We (We are, we are..) You (You are.. you are.. plural)
Yes, Rammstein have mastered artistry. They are the textbook definition of what an artist should be. They don't just make songs, they make deep and meaningful and impactful expressions of thought and passion.
No movie clips were used for this video. Everything you see in this video are the members of the band Rammstein acting in completely self created scenes.
There official Videos are ART: Radio Ich will Ausländer Sonne Rosenrot Mein Herz brennt Mein Herz brennt Piano Version 😍🤡 Ohne Dich Amerika Links 2 3 4 and the live Performances omg great reaction Rammstein is a rabbit hole
Ironically this is my first time listening to this song as well, it's really good and the lead singer sounds like Chris Pohl who is the lead singer from Blutengel
You should check out more of them. All official videos are high standard and they're epic live. Videos to check out next: "Ohne dich" ( a really nice ballade) "Mein Herz brennt" original and Piano Version Live: "Ich tu dir weh" live from Madison Square Garden "Mutter" live in Paris
To TRULY understand "Deutschland" you will have to watch ALL Rammstein clips (they are mentioned on this clip) and study Germany's history. There some reviews that address this wonderfully.
Some recommendations for your next Rammstein react videos. Their video for the original version of "Sonne", as the piano outro in Deutschland was the piano version of Sonne. And you ABSOLUTELY need to do a reaction video to one of their live shows. Rammstein truly is one of those few bands, where they go all out on production values for their live shows and I even think that the live versions of their songs are even better than their studio versions.
Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of Emperor Germanicus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteeth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings
I meant to add, for "where next" in your Rammstein journey, I strongly recommend you check these out in the following order: the official music videos for "Sonne", "Mein Herz Brennt" (the original music video first), "Haifisch" and then "Radio". Then watch the Live performances of "Du Hast" live in Paris, "Engel" live, "Ich tu Dir Weh" live and "Seeman" (2017 live version). And then just see where you go from there, but that is my recommendation
Great reaction. I was impressed that you knew off the top of your head, the wars years, 39 to 45. This song is diff than most Rammstein songs. Try Ich Will or Buch Dich, for a clearer example of their base sound
Copy past from another guy on youtube who summed it up pretty good. Hi, I'm from Germany. The style of Rammstein is called "Industrial" or "Industrial Metal". A mixture of synthesizers and hard metal guitarrs in a 50 to 50 % manner. The video: A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the mother of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a Goddess. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The battle of the Teutoburg forrest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of Emperor Germanicus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialst German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene where Germania holding 4 dogs (6:01) shows in my opinion the Quadriga, today the Quadriga is sitting on the "Brandenburger Tor" in Berlin. The scene with Rammstein wielding guns and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: My interpretation of the glass coffin is Little Snow White in space, like I wrote before. PPPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. The pumpgun-scene and the hostage scene was from the 1970's, when Germany suffered under leftwing terrorism. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold
The stars on chest or arm was in few different color, like in this video. it was: jewish, political, homosexual, and other nation (polish, gypsy etc) prisoners. its important.
Here's my theory about the video: A future generation, the band in the space suits, is discovering relics of ancient Germany. They scan and collect artifacts, statues, as well as the history of Germany (hence the lasers in every scene: scanning the history). So we begin with the Roman legions discovering 7 years later how they lost the legions of Varus in Germania: It's the first time German tribes were forming an aliance together among themselves, acting united under the lead of Arminius. We can see that the band even found Germania herself and brought her back in a glass coffin - a reference to Snow White and Rammsteins video to "Sonne" - and only a short time later already doing better, sitting in a wheel chair. Germania can be seen handing brass knuckles to two opposing fighters in the luxurious roaring 20s, the time where two powers started fighting in and over Germany: Communists and nazis. We can see Germania as a warrior knight/queen of the Holy Roman Empire, with insignias and relics. Germania is also seen in a modern setup, flaunting all her Gold, protected by heavily armed police and German Shepherd Dogs (a reference to their video to "Mein Teil" where the band members are walked on leashes, referenced also at the end). Germania only plays a minor role in the scenes of Eastern Germany, she's in the back of the room, the elite didn't really care about Germany. In the medieval scenes, the church is devouring Germania, leaving bits for the rats under the table. With hints that foreign forces also have a good time there. In my opinion, we see Spandau Prison, a prison in Berlin that existed for hundreds of years and mostly held political prisoners of all periods of time, including the Nazis being held there after the war. Germania is seen there wearing a parade uniform like they were fashionable but also looks comically like a circus director's uniform, for good reason. Germania is held hostage in the 70s by the RAF terrorists. At the end, Germania is more modest, she's a nun, quite a contrast to the gold and sunglasses wearing Germania before, and she's pregnant, worshiped by the band. A guy in the red dress of a Federal Judge (who's job it is, to see that all laws follow the German constitution) can be seen in a biblical scene delivering dogs, before Germania is finally seen dead floating in the glass coffin in space. So, is that Germanias legacy in the end? The German Shepherd Dogs. It's ironic, of course.
There is a lot more, though. So many small details, hints that you miss if you don't know German history in and out. There's the church, referencing to the Pauls Church, where the first constitution was written, so far ahead of its time, it's the basis of our modern consitution. One thing I want to point out about the lasers: Once they start to scan from extreme angles, as if someone looking into the past from specific angles, trying to reason or trying to find "new facts", the scenes start to come apart. Everything gets destroyed of you scan it with some specific intentions (from an angle) and leaving the neutral view!
Also, we can hear references to older songs from them. The intro 2:40 sounds like an evolved intro from "Du riechst so gut" (but also very similar to Anne Clark - Our Darkness ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OguHIyNNblM.html). "Du hast" is also referenced, of course. "Das Herz in Flammen" is a reference to "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" Talking about lyrics, "du" can mean Germany but also the listener.
There's a really good video by the channel Three Arrows called "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis" that explains all the historical background stuff if you're interested.
Great reaction Anastasia. The actors are the band members. I just guess scenes like the burning Hindenburg in the background could be from films or other media.
Hi Anastasia Happy New year! I Love your reactions (and accent :D) Everything in this video was filmed by the band, no clips were taken from movies. If you want to hear something completely different, I highly recommend "Feuerschwanz - Warriors Of The World United (feat Thomas Winkler, Saltatio Mortis & Melissa Bonny)" The absolute best cover of a Manowar song I ever heard, if not best cover ever. And if you like video's that is like reading a book... "Sabaton - Christmas Truce" should be super high on your list.
Nope. No movie clips. All scenes are original. Genre: Industrial Metal. (Their sound is also uniquely their own.) The end credits music is a piano rendition of their song, "Sonne." "Deutschland" is about the good times, and the bad times, through the history of Germany (Deutschland), and "he" doesn't know whether to hate her (Germania/Deutschland), or to love her. Everything in the video has meaning. There are a few really good videos on RU-vid that actually do a good job breaking down and analyze each scene.
Это просто невообразимо крутой клип с точки зрения сюжета и смысла. Просто почитай, погугли, о чем он. Вкратце - про историю Германии, ее проблемы в разные времена, «рождение» собак - это, к примеру, современная проблема Германии с рождаемостью, так как большинство немцев сейчас предпочитает заводить собак, а не детей. И все в таком духе. Очень круто!
This is about German history and the - let's say - German condition of relation to the country which is a forth and back between love and hate ... at least in persons that I consider normal.
The piano outtro is a classical version of their song "Sonne", which has a very creative and interesting video as well. You should definitely check it out.
For me this song means as if Germany still is struggling with its past. Such a beautifull country with once proud people. After WW2, germany has lost its soul and that hurts me to see. It is however not to late to restore Germany's pride, it will take some radical changes. Not for germany alone also for europe.
No, Germany is not struggling with its past, Germany learned from its past and lives with its past. If with "lost soul" and "pride" you mean being a fascist, supremacist, intolerant, closed-minded and militaristic society - then yes, after WW2 Germany lost that soul. And I'm glad that it did and I hope that it will never be restored, no radical changes are needed whatsoever.
Dr Alexandra Lloyd, lecturer in German at the University of Oxford, explain what the fuck is going on during the video's nine minutes…. The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania…. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene…. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on…. We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods…. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners…. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media…. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century…. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day…. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich… Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event…. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?.... There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box…. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her…. www.loudersound.com/features/we-got-an-oxford-university-professor-to-explain-what-the-fcks-going-on-in-that-rammstein-video
even though it's hard to understand if you're not from Germany I'm pretty sure a lot of germans also wouldn't fully understand what's going on in the video xD
@@TheKartoffel101, I can tell you. Germania is a fallen angel (demon spirit) and Germany is no longer a white race nation due to the Third Reich bringing Muslims to them long before the Arab Spring, just like how Muslims all went to Dearborn, Michigan because Henry Ford published antisemitic propaganda for decades there. For anyone to give you a better explanation of this video they will need to explain the man fucking a dog in a room full of chaos after many mutts are created in Germany and before the white man is on his hands and knees before the world being led on leashes by the demonic spirit of Germania. Germania is the black woman and she represents the strength of Germany. Hence she is strong in the first encounter with Rome and then joins Rome and wears a crown of strength, but under the Holy Roman Empire she is beginning to be consummed as strength is in Rome and the religious who represent Rome. She is happy between WWI and WWII as Woodrow Wilson's "determinism" allowed Germany to attack other political views, but even stronger during WWII Nazi Germany's third Reich, and is captured by the Bader Meinhof RAF by accident in their terrorism in Western Germany, but is also gleeful at seeing strength also in the West, for she merely bids her time in Eastern communism as a soldier, but yells out her pride in being German. She has riches and dogs in this present age, but can also be in a wheelchair as she is weak in rejecting nationalism (I cannot give you my love), and she gives birth to dogs through interbreeding of the races and the white man is on his hands and knees as a dog before the lesser breed of race because of it. GERMANY OVER ALL. Now what was it all about? Finally, in the future with laser like in "Freejack" they are zeroing in on Germania to take her strength for the future and begin the cut while the crown is on her head inside the concentration camp, but she is dead and in a casket without the spaceship for the future at the very end. This is because only the spirit of THE ACT OF THE WILL is loved as the human is unnecessary in the future. Some Nazi who is rich, must have wanted to give forth this imagry knowing the demons are all that exist in hell as man is working towards no flesh (Matthew 24:22) as man is merely a beast (Psalms 49:20) as for humans the second body and soul are destroyed in hell fire (Matthew 10:28).
The perfect way to show the Love Hate relationship germans have with their country. Rammstein is perfect in taking hard topics and making songs about it, especially about real stories like cannibalism (Song: mein Teil) or a father who locked his daughter in the basemant and fathered children with her (Song: Wiener Blut). Most of their Songs have a real Story behind them.
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Rammstein has the courage to love their country while acknowledging its bloody history.
"Deutschland, deine Liebe ist Fluch und Segen. Deutschland, meine Liebe kann ich dir NICHT geben." "Germany, your love is curse and Blessing. Germany, my love i can NOT give you." It's critical patriotism. Progress through acceptance and prudence. To criticize one's country is the most patriotic act there is, seeking to improve rather than unconditionally (blindly) love ones country/culture/nation. Too much "love" and you end in atrocities. Change is inevitable, it's literally the definition of time itself. To emotionally hold on to past ideas, identity, glory is futile. To progress is the only way to survive/adapt. It's the survival of the fittest, not the strongest nor most ruthless. "Wer hoch steigt, der wird tief fallen. Deutschland, Deutschland über allen." - "Who climbs high, will fall deep. Germany Germany over all." (pride comes before fall) Basically the essence of this masterpiece. I love Germany as a German, because of the understanding that this progressive critical take is the essence of a new German patriotism: Be proud, but also be wary because patriotism itself is a Pandoras box best appreciated humbly, rationally and with great care not to open it, nor to lose the knowledge of its fatal power if opened. "Vergangenheitsbeweltigung" is an important part of German collective identity. That I am proud of. Something, that is nearly forgotten in the US for example. Lots of blinded patriotism/nationalism simmering here (I'm currently living in the US). Have a good one, stay save.
@@MrChillerNo1 as an American, I feel the same way about my country. Yes, I love it, but it isn't perfect. There's so much more that we can do to improve our country. Nationalism is very dangerous, and it saddens me to see how many people support it in my country.
@@mistressaya Well.... what do US-americans learn about slavery, the slaughtering of the natives, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the subjection of elected democracies, especially in the 70's and 80's in the Middle East what let to multiple wars, the IS and stuff like that in school? What do kids in the US getting teached about the dark past of their country? Serious question.
The whole Video will understand only Historians and Germans and these people also have to watch the video several times. The song is about the ambivalent relationship of Rammstein and many Germans to their country, because of the violent and cruel history with extensive human crimes, especially in recent history. Therefore the video features various events from German history, including Roman times, the Middle Ages, witch hunting and burning, Protestant Reformation, the November Revolution, the "Golden Twenties" and hyperinflation, Nazi book burnings, the Hindenburg disaster, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, the Weimar Republic, the Red Army Fraction (violent anti-capitalist alliance of young people and students against Nazis in high state and economy positions in post-war Germany), and the division of the country into West and East Germany including the Uprising June 17 in East Germany A lot of people do not understand the scenes with the dogs. This breed of dogs are not German Shepards, but Leonberger. This breed of dog narrowly escaped extinction during the First and Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars - both now have a second existential chance.
@@detsllh2995, do you like "Du Hast" where they marry the demonic world and find they aren't loved but hated for they shoot their load and it comes back to explode in their face? As the Quran states, "Allah intendeth evil for all people" so obviously loving enough to be loyal to the demonic will bite you in the ass in the end.
No one does music videos like Rammstein. They are the gold standard. Zeit, Sonne, Amerika, Ausländer, Angst, Radio, Keine Lust, Ich Will, Ohne Dich, Dicke Titten… Take your pick. Every one of them is a work of art. For me, Zeit is the best music video I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing… just stunningly beautiful and full of meaning.
Здравствуй! В клипе чудовищное количество отсылок. Рекомендую разбор на канале Suren. При первых просмотрах клипа я выкупил, в лучшем случае, процентов 20-25 из того что он нашёл, ввиду слабого знания чужой истории. Видно что к песне и клипу Раммы подошли со всей серьёзностью и любовью к родной стране.
Short content of the video. Time travelers visit Germany and evaluate whether Germany is worth saving. In the end, everything collapses. The Black Woman represents Germania. Everything happens in her name. The video is also available with subtitles. So if you want to understand what is being sung and you already know in advance that it is not sung in English, then you could easily have found a corresponding video on youtube with subtitles. And the end credits is the piano version of another song "Sonne"
hi anastasia, overwhelming even for a native speaker, who was educated in german history. the piano outro is hitting as hard as the metal sounds. if you are interested, I found "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis" her on YT very helpful to understand the video better. thank you for this reaction and a happy and healthy new year for you.
Rammstein pursued the goal of "Germany" to illustrate every single era of Germany with everything good or bad. Because Germany has more in common than just National Socialism. The real goal is to get rid of prejudices, since one is often branded as a nationalist if one makes the statement that one loves one's country, in the case of Germany. Your Welcome
Это видео стоит "годзиллион дорралс" - однажлы вокалист "Король и шут" в интервью сказал, что Рамштайн - продукт всей Германии и они работают все на нее (группу). В этом есть много правды, но... Разве деньги смогли бы сделать этот шедевр, если бы не было самой музыки истории перед ней? Как если бы были бы Бэбиметал той же группой, если бы не был вокал Су-Метал? Это к вопросу о том, то делает шедевр шедевром. Всегда есть ингридиент, который самый уникальный.
I loved your authentic reaction! 🇷🇺 Sending love from Boston, Massachusetts! 🇺🇸 My daughter bought us tickets for their show in September...I love her so much!!! Rock on sister!💥🎸🔥
In addition to the historical aspects of the video, if you've seen their previous videos you'll notice a lot of callbacks. For example, the band walking away from the fiery crash of the Hindenburg references a time when they wanted to end their videos walking toward the camera away from fire and explosions, like in the video for Du Hast. I've been a fan of Rammstein since 1997 and somehow they just keep getting better, both musically and with their videos.
The video is all Rammstein, they aren't using clips of other films or anything, this is all filmed specifically for this music video. It is absolutely epic. I mean even just the Foley work in the first minute or so is incredible! The video basically covers 2000 years of German history, or rather I should say, the geographic location that is now known as the country of Germany, with the band acting different scenes and different times, and playing the roles of both/multiple sides in different conflicts and events. Lyrically, they are talking about the inner conflict of being German and the relationship to the country and it - and their - histories. The red lazer beam, and the woman who plays "Germania" (like a physical embodiment of the spirit of Germany) are constants through the various scenes, eras etc. The actress who plays Germania is called Ruby Commey I think, and is most often depicted in the colours of the German flag, black red and gold. I find it interesting and not sure if it is intentional, but as she is Black and her name "Ruby" is a way of saying "red" she's 2/3rds of the way there already! Rammstein do not shy away from the uncomfortable aspects of the past, even with the dark and troubling things like concentration camps and so on. I am sure there are actual German people and/or historians who can do a much better job than me explaining everything, or even some of this. Oh, one thing of note is the dogs that Germania gives birth to in the video, I believe they are called Leonbergers or something like that, unsure of the spelling but they are a German dog breed that almost became extinct but were ultimately saved from the brink by help from other nations to keep the Leonberger's alive in Germany There are many call backs both visual and audio to some of their previous music videos and live performances. It really requires multiple views to really even begin to take it in, speaking as a not German, though I've heard native Germans also say that they see new things every time they watch still. The "lead guy" as you called him is Till Lindemann, lyrics and vocals, and his voice is amazing Rammstein are industrial metal, credited with founding the genre 'neue deutsch harte, they combine synths and electro techno dance elements with amazing effect.
"Meine liebe kann ich dir nicht geben!" "My love I cannot give you!" Not being able to love and/or being proud of your country ... Mainly because of an Austrian, failed painter some 80 years ago ...
Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: introducing Germania Rammstein’s Deutschland takes us on a thrilling, violent, and moving journey through German history. At over nine minutes, it gives us a panorama of events and historical and mythical figures, and there are so many references and Easter eggs that fans and commentators will be poring over it for some time to come. The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the limes, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania (opens in new tab) is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. Rammstein Deutschland video still Ruby Commey as Germania Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: Marx, Lenin and the GDR We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany (opens in new tab), and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Rammstein Deutschland video still Rammstein's Deutschland video explained: the finale Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact? There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her. PS: I did not write the comment myself the Credit for it goes to: Ingovonderluhe174 i just copyied for you, cause he did the best explanation that i saw on YouToube!
It's the details. The Grimm bros and Snow White, the Leonberger dogs, the 30 years war, the Weimar Republic, the 3rd Reich, East/West Germany, the Red Army Fraction, the Holocaust memorial in Berlin... Meanwhile the personification of the country (Germania, similar to Mother Russia) is a black woman, just to match the colors black-red-golden. (btw Mother Russia also shows up in the video, also her bastard daughter representing East Germany) And of course, the aristocrats who are ruling the country. The red laser is the read thread, that goes through history. And what is that? It's Germans hating Germans. Germania is happy when she sees Germans killing Germans. She is beautiful but she is a psycho. Check the details, there is more to learn in this MV than in the history books.
So this is my theory for whats up with the head germania is keeping all the centuries. I think it symbolised the roman culture we germans absorbed from the romans. Its part of our culture like many latin words we still use and some ancient storys from homer and many more. In the 19th century we began to love the old roman culture and architecture, simbolized by germania kissing the head. And now its really a part of our culture and history we assimilated what we unearthed from our and the roman history and culture, symbolized by her eating the head. Its all a metaphor.( if you have a better explaination please educate me) Have a nice Day
