On 5 June 1999 in Worcester, Massachusetts (USA) Lindemann and Flake Lorenz were arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior. These distinctive roles in the band's theatrical presentation have led to him becoming a very popular member of the group among fans.įlake is probably best known for his part in the controversial live performance of the song Bück dich, where he and vocalist Till Lindemann engaged in simulated sodomy with a liquor-squirting dildo. This varies from playing the part of a scientific genius, aloof from the rest of the group, to playing a gimp role, to being left alone at the end of the Keine Lust video, and being bullied by the rest of the band, particularly Lindemann. In the band's performances and videos, Flake is often cast as the outsider of the group, possibly due to his relatively unusual presence as a keyboard player in a heavy metal group. Eventually, he agreed to join, and the group began work on their first album, Herzeleid. He was initially reluctant to join his five bandmates and had to be pestered into becoming a member of Rammstein, as he thought they would be too boring. Paul Landers formally joined the band, then finally Flake. In 1994, Till Lindemann, Richard Kruspe, Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider entered and won the Berlin Senate Metro beat contest that allowed them to professionally record a four-track demo. Two jackets a month meant as much money as an average salaried worker.
When they were not playing gigs, Landers and Flake would sell jackets made from cut-up bed sheets and dusters on the black market. He stayed with the band for about ten years.įlake squatted/lived in an apartment with Paul during their early years.
In 1983, at age sixteen, he began to play in the band Feeling B with Paul Landers and Aljoscha Rompe, a Swiss living in East Berlin. He has a brother who is four years older. I still can't!" At the age of sixteen, he apprenticed as a toolmaker, an apparently short-lived career. "When I joined my first band", Flake has said, "I noticed that I couldn't play modern music. He stopped his lessons in order to play with his father's jazz records. His parents bought him a piano for one hundred East German marks for his 15th birthday.įlake became "addicted" to rock and roll as a boy. Flake "began by painting the keys on a window ledge" and "practiced one-half-year on the window ledge". Flake says he chose to play the piano because a childhood friend of his played from the age of three. Lorenz is known to be an educated pianist. Lorenz was brought up and still lives in the former Prenzlauer Berg area of Berlin (now a part of the borough of Pankow), where he still passes his old school building on the way to band rehearsals. He carries the title anyway, so now he is mostly called Doctor Lorenz. He actually wanted to become a doctor, but after feeling that this wouldn't work, he joined the band. He had no idea what that was supposed to mean but thought it was a cool name.įlake did not want to join Rammstein at first. A bully at his school called him "Flake", meant as an insult. Because he couldn't say some words without stuttering badly, he chose to say other words he could say fluently. Vicky is living with his parents in the Viking village Flake.ĭuring his reading tour, Flake said, that his nickname comes from his youth when he was stuttering.
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His nickname Flake comes from the TV show "Vicky the Viking".
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