“People rarely face a choice between drinking gasoline for breakfast or freshly squeezed orange juice. But once you start thinking about this alternative, you move a step away from the norm,” writes in the introduction to the collection the first light designer of Rammstein and close friend of Lindemann, Gert Hof.
Try taking the side of the witch who wants to bake cookies out of Hansel and Gretel—maybe then you’ll manage to bring together the concepts of “the norm” and Lindemann’s poetry. And it’s not that the witch loves the taste. No, she wants those cookies because… isn’t that funny?”