Eighty-five voices from the community

The archive's Voices reached 85 testimonials. They all come from the community form, whose 286 responses we've been publishing in batches, and they're all rewritten to read well without losing what the person actually said.

Twenty-eight new ones came in this round. Some of them:

• The four signatures obtained in Sopó — Flake, Richard, Paul and Schneider — and the two still missing, waited on outside hotels in Tampa and Mexico City.
• A Live aus Berlin on VHS and the Pyro ticket, both lost to a downpour during a move to another city.
• The fan who competed as Till Lindemann on Yo Me Llamo in 2023, after learning guitar and German because of the band.
• Twelve hours without drinking water to make it through the 2010 concert with gastroenteritis — and running into them the next day, on their way to the international terminal.
• A handmade piggy bank to save up for the trip, a bicycle named Engel, and a set of Rammstein-ised motorbike rims.

We also unpublished four testimonials. It isn't a judgement on anyone: the criterion is that this archive stands on stories that bring a fact, an object, a place or an anecdote of their own. Accounts that only say "I love the band" are kept, not deleted, and can come back if their author wants to expand them.

Reviewing the batches turned up something worth telling: several people filled in the form twice, with similar accounts on different rows. By comparing the texts — rather than the names, which the form stores in inconsistently swapped columns — we caught eight candidates that were already published. One was identical to a story that already had its page.

Of what's left in the form, most are one-line answers. If your story isn't here yet, the archive is still open: write to us and we'll add it.