The meaning of the Mein Herz Brennt is not so easy to understand, even if you try, and not just skim through it. All that distinguishes the eye are nightmarish images, dark blood, writhing bodies, the silent cries of the tortured and the figures of children.
That was the band’s intention: to leave a continuous stream of frightening images. It is difficult to focus on them, as each one is shown for about 3 seconds and is immediately replaced by a new, even more creepy one. If it were possible to consider and analyze these characters, then they would not be so frightening. But no – the incessant tape of a nightmare makes up this clip.
One of the directors of the video (Eugenio Recuenko) was removed from work precisely because his creation lacked dynamism. He is still a photographer – his images are unusual and imbued with a special energy, but devoid of movement, drive and fire, which we love so much in Rammstein’s work. As a result of refining the clip by another director, we watch a video full of dynamics. And it is this feeling that remains after watching – the creators did not achieve at all that we analyze something, parse the plot into details, but were left with a painful feeling of an unstoppable and insurmountable nightmare, with which nothing can be done, which will definitely come – anyone knows that, who was a child.
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The shooting location is more than unusual – an abandoned hospital for tuberculosis patients, or, according to some sources, a lunatic asylum. Whatever it is, the energy around the building is dark and gloomy, the walls are saturated with real pain and the thoughts of those who were here – thoughts of death. It was simply impossible to find a better place for the clip.
In the clip, two shades can be distinguished – gray and red. Gray is peace and quiet, and against its background, the unfolding pictures of delirium and nightmares look even more eerie. Red – flaming pillars of fire, a bloody heart and an ominous light. Black unites them among themselves, like a conductor from the darkness of Purgatory, where there is nothing, into the open mouth of Hell. At the same time, red is energy, development and life.
What is Rammstein’s video – Mein Herz Brennt about: a clue in the song
To understand what the Rammstein – Mein herz brennt video is about, you need to refer to the lyrics of the song. It tells about the supreme Nightmare with a burning heart, which becomes stronger from children’s tears delivered to him by infernal entities. These entities frighten children, and Nightmare – the “voice from the pillow” – will sing while his heart burns.
The images created for the song are very original: not stereotyped ideas that pass from clip to clip, as happens with other performers. Clip Mein Herz Brennt is perceived as a full-fledged feature film. Ideas are not easy to interpret, because the creators did not choose ready-made characters, but created something new, but we will still try to sort them out.
The essence of the Rammstein — Mein Herz Brennt clip is in images
Children with painted bags on their heads. They are orphans, and the faces depicted on the fabric – the roles that society wants to impose on them – can be distinguished beauties and sad Pierrot. No one is interested in the inner world of the child, his face is hidden by a bag, because only parents could love him, but they are not. Society treats orphanage children with prejudice. It is impossible not to recall the image of a child with a bag on his head from the film “Shelter” by Guillermo del Toro – the same blood-chilling incessant horror occurred there.
No one’s children, frightened and disenfranchised, whom no one will save – this is all of us under the approaching night mosquito, which is what the song is about.
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Orphanage teacher. We see how she tries to defend herself against Till with a gun, but she fails and screams in horror because he grabs her and tries to kiss her. She is young and beautiful, but after a few frames we see her old, and the nightmare still torments her until she falls dead. What exactly frightened and tormented her so much? We can see the archetypal Man in Tilla confidently approaching the girl. Since she is caring for orphans, most likely she does not and cannot have a loved one, and images of passion torment her at the same time with desire and fear, like all her life, until her death – Eros and Thanatos are always together.
The hero of Till can be interpreted at the same time as a grown-up pupil of the orphanage, who came to avenge everything that she did with the children. For example, the scene where the girl is all tightly chained in belts, or the presence of children in a low cage is monstrous cruelty, as is the dipping of a bound person in ice water.
Those who liked the video and its atmosphere will be interested in the second season of American Horror Story: Asylum about the Briarcliff asylum for insane convicts, where various tortures were practiced and otherworldly forces were present.
A girl on a gynecological chair, who is helped by doctors – members of the group. It is not clear whether this is childbirth or an operation, but, nevertheless, this fragment makes you cringe . The image is interpreted at first glance simply – Mother, Birth, the creation of a new life. But in the context of the clip, the image looks just as frightening as the rest. Why be born, if the world is so nightmarish, and life will most likely pass in an orphanage. The girl has an alternative appearance, she is a well-known freak model, but her unusual appearance in the video is also intended to make the viewer understand that this is a different, nightmarish world.
A bald girl in a crinoline where the children are hiding. The image follows from the previous one – the care of a mother in this infernal world is rather a limitation, and children are just as defenseless against any nightmare – they will not be protected by a crinoline frame resembling a cage.
The girl is a nightmare. She sits on the back of a sleeping person’s bed, and, waking up from one nightmare, he sees another – her frightening and aggressive face, she is all white and with a twisted back – she resembles a revived gargoyle. In this scene, the creators wanted to convey the continuity of the nightmare – he dreamed in childhood, he dreams now, and will be forever.
Crying Till is the personification of a nightmare, its hyperbole. His tears – perhaps from the horror of himself, the inevitability of evil and the torment of people.
Children dressed as hares – for some reason, this cute image in the clip looks frightening and disturbing. About the viral video with a magic rabbit singing “etis, atis, animatis”, I think no one needs to be reminded. Perhaps children are frightening, because in a black-and-white photograph, the whites of the eyes stand out especially strongly against the background of gray skin. The horns of Satan can be seen in the carelessly made hare ears. Children through the image of the beast become closer to the infernal world. Fire devours their photograph, as time devours their lives.
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Musicians in black blood playing cellos . The only frame in the entire video that can be called beautiful is the smooth and long movements of the bows. Musicians in a room with candles and dark walls seem to be accompanying the unfolding diabolical mass.
The man in the tall black mask is the same nightmare. The children are afraid of him, they try to escape, but to no avail, he torments them with long black claws, looking with painted inhuman eyes. I recall scandals with orphanages, where children were tortured in satanic rituals, as they were defenseless orphans who would not be missed. This story is told in the thriller Snitch, a book not for the faint of heart, written by Sam Hayes. Here, the children are in a kind of cage, and horror is inevitable, it cannot be avoided.
Fire is the quintessence of fear itself, tormenting passion, living, devouring horror that brings death. But at the same time, he creates liberation – in the end, people get out of the burning shelter, as if from imprisonment, perhaps these are the same orphans who finally leave the house of their horror, cease to obey the nightmare.
Interestingly, the scene where Till walks against the backdrop of burning walls was filmed “for real”, and not created using computer graphics. So the atmosphere is very realistic: the house is a place of torment and torture, and the fire actually burned.
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Eating a bloodied heart. Ripping the heart out of the chest, absorbing oneself, destruction in the most direct sense – self-hatred and at the same time rebirth, the desire to get rid of this burning heart. One of the most shocking scenes in the video.
Men leaving a burning house. Previously, we saw them as children locked in a barred recess where the Nightmare could touch and torment them. But they grew up and broke the bars, set fire to the house and went free.
Those who appreciated this clip may like Ransome Riggs’ book “House for Peculiar Children”, which will include an orphanage, out-of-this-world photographs, and orphans endowed with infernal abilities.
What is the meaning of the video Rammstein – Mein herz brennt? So, the video is entirely based on the song, all the images are from it. Children’s nightmares are part of our lives, no one and nothing can save them from them. Frightening images will inevitably come and feed on our pain and fear. But the ongoing hell can be fought back. At first it seems to us that Fire, the living force, is on the side of the Nightmare, but this is not so – Passion can conquer fear.
Mein Herz Brennt – Rammstein Meaning
One of the famous videos of the Rammstein group was filmed for the song “Mein herz brennt”. The main meaning of the clip Mein Herz Brennt, whose name can be translated as “My heart is on fire”, is to demonstrate the process of destruction of the child’s psyche by adults. An important point is that the video partially reflects the biography of the band’s lead singer, Till Lindemann, who experienced physical and psychological abuse from his own father in childhood.
The lead singer of the group, Till Lindemann, begins the story with tears in his eyes. The action takes place in a gloomy building where the kids are forcibly kept by scary creatures (they maintain a creepy atmosphere by playing instruments and babysitting). The captives, seeing their approach, put gray bags with painted faces over their heads, under which it is easier to hide the horror that gripped them and meet the expectations of those who imprisoned them in cages. The viewer understands the terrible truth: just as living children hide under masks, so ordinary adults stand under the masks of their tormentors.
Lindemann’s hero has obviously been in this building before: he confidently walks along the corridors, remembering the entity that appeared to him in his nightmares: a faceless man. This moment can be interpreted in different ways. Perhaps the unfamiliar man sitting on the bed is himself after the nightmare, perhaps it is his personal tormentor who made him what he eventually became.
In the corridor, the hero meets a frightened young girl, who at the moment becomes an old woman: an image that instantly pops up from childhood is blocked by reality. Lindemann tries to kiss the woman who backs away from him in fear. Behind the kiss is not the desire to console, but to subjugate. The hero responds with the same “love” that surrounded him here. From the opened class, children look at the kiss. One of the students with a bloodthirsty smile, looking at the woman, draws a bow across her throat: a small monster that was nurtured by violence and fear has awakened.
Why torture children, what’s the point? This question is answered by shots showing the collection of children’s tears: they feed the main monster that supports the hell that is happening in this place. This is another dark side of the human soul: sadists, choosing defenseless children as victims, do it for the sake of torment itself, they are fed by fear and pain, which they see on the faces subject to them. Flickering scenes of childbirth and a faceless woman holding children in a cage-dress hint at a similar attitude even towards their own children on the part of their parents.
But time goes by, the cage is broken. The children have grown up, now they are adults who were able to fight back the offenders. They run into the light, holding burning torches in their hands, which they throw on the floor before going outside. Most of the captives escaped, but the main character remained inside: he eats his own heart, unable to forgive and let go of the past, despite the fact that he saved his kind. He understands that from now on he is the same monster as those who kept him here, and the most correct choice is to burn down along with the horror in which he lived.
What is the clip about? About the fact that cruelty will always turn into even greater cruelty, about guilt and retribution. Everyone who did evil, then he will face him face to face. But even despite the triumph of justice, not all wounds can heal: the human soul is fragile and can die much earlier than the body shell.
Lyrics of Mein Herz Brennt by Rammstein
Nun liebe Kinder, gebt fein acht.Ich bin die Stimme aus dem Kissen.Ich hab’ euch etwas mitgebracht,Hab’ es aus meiner Brust gerissen.Mit diesem Herz hab’ ich die Macht,Die Augenlider zu erpressen.
Ich singe, bis der Tag erwacht.Ein heller Schein am Firmament.Mein Herz brennt.Sie kommen zu euch in der Nacht,Dämonen, Geister, schwarze Feen.Sie kriechen aus dem KellerschachtUnd werden unter euer Bettzeug sehen.Nun liebe Kinder, gebt fein acht.Ich bin die Stimme aus dem Kissen.Ich hab’ euch etwas mitgebracht.
Ein heller Schein am Firmament.Mein Herz brennt.Sie kommen zu euch in der NachtUnd stehlen eure kleinen, heißen Tränen.
Sie warten, bis der Mond erwacht,Und drücken sie in meine kalten Venen.Nun liebe Kinder, gebt fein acht.Ich bin die Stimme aus dem Kissen.
Ich singe, bis der Tag erwacht.Ein heller Schein am Firmament.
Mein Herz brennt.Mein Herz brennt.Mein Herz brennt.Mein Herz brennt.
Mein Herz brennt.Mein Herz brennt.Mein Herz brennt.Mein Herz brennt.
English Translate of Mein Herz Brennt by Rammstein
Now dear children, pay close attention.
I am the voice from the pillow.
I have brought you something,
I tore it out of my chest. With this heart I have the power,
To blackmail the eyelids.
I sing until the day awakes.
A bright glow in the firmament.
My heart is on fire.They come to you in the night,
Demons, ghosts, black fairies.
They crawl out of the cellar shaft
And will look under your bedding.Now dear children, take good care.
I am the voice from the pillow.
I have brought you something.
A bright glow in the firmament.
My heart is on fire. They come to you in the night
And steal your little hot tears.
They wait until the moon awakes
And press them into my cold veins.Now dear children, pay close attention.
I am the voice from the pillow.
I sing until the day awakes.
A bright glow in the firmament.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
My heart is on fire.
