On special occasions, the band members would get together for individual concerts at punk festivals, until Rompe died in November 2000.

“It was quite easy to make a living not to work and stay out of trouble,” says Landers, “You only got problems if you were caught.” Two jackets a month meant as much money as an average salaried worker. When they weren’t playing gigs, Landers and Flake would sell jackets made from cut-up bed sheets and dusters on the black market. Over time, Feeling B’s popularity grew greatly and at the end of the German Democratic Republic, it was one of the most respected and influencial Eastern German bands despite their underground status.įlake squatted/lived in an apartment with Paul during their early years. He stayed with the band for about ten years.įeeling B started out firmly grounded in the underground punk scene.

In 1983, at age seventeen, he began to play in the band Feeling B with Paul Landers and Aljoscha Rompe, a Swiss living in East Berlin. Flake says he chose to play the piano because a childhood friend of his did.Īt the age of sixteen, he apprenticed as a toolmaker, an apparently short-lived career. Lorenz learned the piano after being given one for his 15th birthday, and he is consequently a well-educated pianist, though he doesn’t consider himself very good. He was brought up and still lives in the former Prenzlauer Berg area of Berlin (now a part of the borough of Pankow), where he still passes his old school building on the way to band rehearsals. As well, there are some rumours of him being adopted into the Lorenz family. It is said Lorenz has a brother who is three years older.

Didn’t like Rammstein at first (thought the band would be too boring…). Very serious offstage, very funny onstage. Usual place on scene: On the bottom, on the rightĬhristian Flake Lorenz played in old band, Feeling B (Keyboards).

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