Paul Landers

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Paul Landers
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Guitarist
CAE / IPI:00252550878 (Landers, Heiko)
00252551091 (Landers, Heiko Paul)
00462346655 (Landers, Paul)
Birth: (1964-12-09) 9 December 1964 (age 59)
East Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Member of:Rammstein
Former member of:Magdalene Keibel Combo
Happy Straps
Die Firma
Feeling B

Paul Landers (born as Heiko Paul Hiersche, 9 December 1964, East Berlin) is the rhythm guitarist for the band Rammstein.

Life

Early life

Paul Landers was born in East Berlin. His mother was born in Poland and his father came from the former German areas of Czechoslovakia. He lived in Moscow for a short time as a young child. Landers can speak Russian but he can't read or write it.

Music career

In 1983, Landers formed the East German punk band, Feeling B, together with Flake and Aljoscha Rompe, in which Christoph Schneider would later also play. In 1986, Landers formed First Arsch with Till Lindemann and Richard Kruspe. He also played in a number of other bands including Die Firma and Magdalene Keibel Combo.

Lindemann, Kruspe, Schneider, and bassist Oliver Riedel entered and won the Berlin Senate Metro Beat Contest in 1994 that enabled them to have a four-track demo professionally recorded. Landers and Flake soon followed suit to join the band which became known as Rammstein.

Oddly, he has stated that he does not like rock, but "with Rammstein, it seems to work".

Personal life

When he married Nikki Landers in 1984 (at the age of 20), he took his wife's surname and switched his middle and first name, thus making his name Paul Landers. After their divorce in 1987, he kept her last name.

He lived with his Feeling B band mate Flake for a number of years.

Works

Music

Previous bands

Production

Guesting

Remixes

Solo

Literature

Books

Television

Movies

Documentaries

Signature

Guitars

Straps

Rigs

Sources