The case is shortly, this: The alleged art character of a porn video ensures that the publishing contracts on poetry books that appear in the video continues to exist, even though the publisher wanted to separate from it. How that? The man is called Till Lindemann and is supposedly singer and poet. For decades he has been provoking with his band Rammstein in sound, word and picture: with riefing steel aesthetics, Nazi attachments, sex slave songs and cannibal cantatas. The texts published in book form also play with well -known patterns between fairy tales, aesthetics of the ugly and, if you want to grab very high, Expressionism. A wording such as “tied up on lazy lumbar fruit” may already describe the character of these texts exhaustively. Lyrical description of a rape and the title “If you sleep” lyrics a rape using the Rohypnol narcotics. The publisher, which is called the published, is called Kiepenheuer & Witsch, and in 2020 his head Helge Malchow at the time defended the author against “moral outrage”, which was based on a confusion between “lyrical ego” and the author Lindemann. Narcotics, the wind turned, and the publisher separated from it. In a statement, the publisher Kerstin Gleba justified this with a porn video from 2020, in which Lindemann has violent sex with several women and a copy of his Kiwi book “In quiet nights” with a dildo. Lindemann exceeded in the video “For us immobile limits in dealing with women”. It was questionable that the publisher only wanted to have gained knowledge of the content of the video at the time. Limitation of violence does not play a role in the question of art? Lindemann complained of the termination. The Cologne District Court has now granted the lawsuit and found that there was no reason for termination, the contracts concluded between Lindemann and Kiwi therefore continue to exist. What this means in relation to Lindemann, which is not available, will still have to be clarified. On the one hand, the judgment states that the outrage at Kiwi was too late: Lindemann’s “artistic way of working” was known long before. The art character is certified by the said video. The one punch line of the judgment is: If the Kiwi publishing house Lindemann’s texts found texts to be published at the time, it must continue to stand. You can find that almost amusement, maybe cruel, the other punch line is even more cruel. In legal language: “In any case, the fact that the content (of the porn video, editor) is repulsive and represent violence against women and possibly glorify is not a role in classification as art or non-art.” Freedom of art is sometimes difficult to endure, this is particularly evident in the theatrical pop business. Then you would have to explain or accommodate all gangster rappers per se that Johnny Cash once shot a man in Reno, just to see him dying. Above all, art character in relation to Lindemann’s porn video, according to the Cologne judgment, means above all: fictional character. There is no question of the creation height.
