Christian «Flake» Lorenz

He was born on November 16, 1966, in East Berlin. At sixteen he joined Feeling B on keyboards, alongside Paul Landers and the Swiss singer Aljoscha Rompe: one of the bands that defined East German punk. He also played in Die Magdalene Keibel Combo.

He was the last to join Rammstein, in 1994, and he joined with doubts: he thought the project might turn out too boring. He ended up being, along with Richard Kruspe, one of the band’s two main composers.

Live, he is the comic counterweight to a band that takes itself very seriously. He surfed the crowd in an inflatable dinghy during «Seemann» until 2002, and did it again in 2009 during «Haifisch»; he rode a Segway across the stage during «Amerika»; and in 1999, in Worcester, Massachusetts, he and Till Lindemann were arrested over the staging of «Bück dich».

Off stage he writes. He published the autobiography Der Tastenficker: An was ich mich so erinnern kann (2015) and the novel Heute hat die Welt Geburtstag (2017). He also paints and collects vintage cars.