From RAMMSTEIN (untitled album) · 2019 · Track 11
Hallomann
«Hallomann (an invented word)»
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In context
The album closer, built on one of Lindemann's own poems. By 2019, reworking his poetry was a method, not an exception.
- Reworked poem
- Closing track
- Unease
- Origin
- Closes the 2019 untitled album. The lyric is a reworked version of “Sing für mich”, a poem from Till Lindemann's book “In stillen Nächten”. On 19 April 2019, a month before the release, the band posted a teaser in which only the guitar could be heard.
- The German key
- “Hallomann” is not a standard German word: it fuses “Hallo” and “Mann” into one, the way you might name a stranger who says hello.
- What the band has said
- The band has not explained the song or the change of title from the poem.
- Live
- Never performed live.
Our reading
It is the same procedure as “Was ich liebe” and “Weit weg” on this same album: a text that already existed on paper enters the catalogue reworked. By the time this album came out, it was an established working method.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
A closer built on a poem
The lyric is a reworked version of “Sing für mich” (“Sing for me”), another poem from Till Lindemann’s book In stillen Nächten — the same procedure the band had already used on “Was ich liebe” and “Weit weg,” elsewhere on this same album. By the time this album came out, reworking Lindemann’s own poetry was already an established method, not an exception.
On 19 April 2019, a month before release, the band uploaded a teaser to its official YouTube channel featuring only the guitar.
Context
Eleventh and final track on the self-titled 2019 album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 17 May 2019. It was never a single, and there is no record of it ever being performed live.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.