Table of Contents Acknowledgments  v Introduction: Gaining an Academic Appreciation of Rammstein  1 Part I: Experiencing Rammstein 1. Industrial Humor and Rammstein’s Postmodern Politics (Patricia Anne Simpson)  9 2. Metamodernist Form, “Reader-Response” and the Politics of Rammstein: What Rammstein Means When You Don’t Understand the Lyrics (David A. Robinson)  30 3. Rammstein Are Laibach for Adolescents and Laibach Are Rammstein for Grown-Ups (Daniel Lukes)  53 4. Über Alles: Rock Bands Following in the Wake of Rammstein (Brad Klypchak)  79 Part II: Rammstein, Literature and Culture 5. Heimatsehnsucht: Rammstein and the Search for Cultural Identity (Nick Henry and Juliane Schicker)  99 6. Rammstein Rocking the Republic: A Cultural Reading of the Trans/National Shock ’n’ Roll Circus (Corinna Kahnke)  120 7. A Carnivalesque Cannibal: Armin Meiwes, “Mein Teil” and Representations of Homosexuality (Karley K. Adney)  133 8. Fear, Desire and the Fairy Tale Femme Fatale in Rammstein’s “Rosenrot” (Erin Sweeney Smith)  150 9. Rammstein, Johann Gottfried Herder and the Origin of Rock and Roll (Simon Richter)  173 10. Love as a Battlefield: Reading Rammstein as Dark Romantics (Martina Lüke)  189 11. Liebe ist für Alle Da: A Visual Analysis of Rammstein’s 2009 Album Artwork (Robert G. H. Burns)  216 Part III: The Elemental and the Metaphysical 12. Fire, Water, Earth and Air: The Elemental Rammstein (John T. Littlejohn)  229 13. Discipleship in the Church of Rammstein (Michael T. Putnam)  250 About the Contributors  269 Index  273