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Bill Kaulitz, pop monsoon z Magdeburku
Kdekoli se objeví, dívky neovladatelně křičí. V 18 letech dosáhl zpěvák Tokio Hotel, Bill Kaulitz, toho, o čem mnoho mladých sní. Je hvězdou s fanoušky po celém světě. A na tour nahrává videa, aby tomu všemu v budoucnu jeho vnoučata uvěřila.
Střapaté vlasy, oči s černými stíny, nalakované nehty. Když se ON objeví, fanynky v Německu totálně šílí. To stejné se děje ve Francii, Izraeli, Portugalsku, Itálii, nebo USA. Kempují před vyprodanými halami několik dnů předem, aby chytli dobré místo. Drží ve vzduchu transparenty ("Chci s tebou mít dítě"). Skládají zamilované dopisy na několik stran, ve kterých píší, že jsou těmi největšími fanoušky.
JEHO jméno je Bill Kaulitz, jeho skupina Tokio Hotel je synonymem slova histerie. Jak Bill zpívá, jak vypadá, pohybuje se a mluví - to všechno dokáže uchvátit mladé lidi a tvoří to úspěch skupiny. Vidí jej a v něm vidí sami sebe - ale jaksi více cool, vášnivého a hrdinu. Je žijícím důkazem, který bude vždy fungovat - je mladý, velmi mladý a už je hvězdou. Faktem je, že mladí lidé totiž mohou dělat něco, u čeho si musí dávat i dospělí pozor, aby to mělo nějaký účinnek.
Hromadě svých fanoušků se Bill jeví jako smutný a slabý, přesto silný. Zpívá o věcech, o kterých 16 letý jenom mluví s přáteli, nebo se s nimi svěřuje deníku. O rozvodu rodičů, odvaze dosáhnout něčeho nového, o lásce, přátelství a bolesti. Mnoho fanouškům mluví texty z duše. Možná proto, že Tokio Hotel neotravují fanoušky s testosterony hnaným rapem - ani s hloupým popovým brekotem. Jejich texty jsou jenom v Němčině.
Tokio Hotel se kymácí mezi dozráváním a dospělostí, stejně jako jejich fanoušci. Bill Kaulitz zpívá, že by měl každý žít každou sekundu tady a teď: "Pozor, připravit, teď, mění se před námi nebe" Smysl, převratný chaos a chuť k akci. Například, že večer s rodiči může být pohromou, když ostatní kamarádi mohou jít ven. Každou chvíi se může stát něco, co už se nemusí nikdy opakovat.
Fnoušci a jejich 20 minut v nebi
Život Billa Kaulitze je jiný. Hvězdou už je několik let a vyrostl v pop byznisu. Bylo mu jenom 15, když skupina vydala "DDM" v roce 2005. První singl hned vyrazil na vrchol.
V tu dobu Bill ještě zpíval o něco výše, teď se jeho hlas hodně prohloubil. Dnes nemá v obličeji žádné dětské rysy a ostatní členové skupiny - Tom, Gustav a Georg se také velmi změnili. Ale stále zůstávají ve stínu frontmana a jeví se více dětsky v porovnání s ním.
Když zorganizoval Spiegel Online setkání s TH před rokem a půl, Célia a Denise mohly těžce pochopit své štěstí. Chtěly vědět všechno: Jaký je úspěch, jak mohou v noci spát, když hráli dvouhodinový koncert - a jestli spolu Bill a Tom opravdu vychází.
Nakonec to byli docela normální teenageři, kteří mluvili o škole, nedostatcích ve Francouzštině a hloupých učitelích. Bill nejprve vypadal nesměle a zdvořile - až překvapil sám sebe, jak to kolem něj chodí.
Štípni mě, jestli nespím
Když se zeptáte Billa Kaulitze na to, co si myslí o úspěchu skupiny, začne přemýšlet a svraští čelo. Říká věci jako: Někdy mě lidé museli štípnout, abych tomu uvěřil." nebo: " Dělám videa, když jsme na turné, abych to později mohl ukázat svým vnoučatům, jinak mi nikdo neuvěří." Sen se splnil; Pořád mu mrazí v zádech, když slyší fanoušky zpívat s ním texty na koncertech.
A vzrušení stále roste. Nejen 10-21 dívky v Německu a Rakousku nemyslí na nic jiného, než na to, až vyjde nový singl. Čtyři kluci z Magdeburku teď mají fanoušky po celém světě. Cestují skrz celou Evropu, vystupovali ve Spojených Státech a dokonce i v Izraeli.
Fanoušci sepsali v Izraeli tolik podpisů, než mohli poslat petici o 6000 podpisech skupině. Bill, ToM,Gustav a Georg jsou prví Němci, kteří byli i na hlavní stránce protipólu BRAVA, "Rosh Echad" Aby rozuměli amohli zpívat texty se fanoušci učí dokonce Německy jako ve Francii, USA a jiných státech.
Neustálý stres a dlouhé turné nemůže být bez problémů ani pro 18cti letého. Na knci března musel Bill podstoupit operaci hlasivek a musela být odstraněna cysta. Diagnóza uděřila těsně před tím, než mělo "1000 Hotels Tour" v Evropě a USA začít.
Momentálně nesmí Bill mluvit - napsal v e-mailu magazínu "Vanity Fair", že se bojí o svůj hlas. Ale 3. května by měl znovu vystupovat na festivalu v New Yorku.
Život Billa Kaulitze běží tempem beroucím dech. Vypadá to, že se všechno děje jenom jednou, v tuhle dobu.
Pokud se všechno má stát v jednu vteřinu, pak se to určitě děje Billu Kaulitzi, 18 leté hvězdě z Magdeburku, představující si vlastní pohřeb: "V rakvi budu kopletně v černém a v kožené bundě" řekl v interview těsně před operací.
Translation by PurpleHaze (tokiohotelamerica.com)
21 UNDER 21
Bill Kaulitz, pop-monsoon from Magdeburg
By Britta Mersch
Wherever he appears, girls compete in extreme screaming. At the age of 18, Tokio-Hotel-singer Bill Kaulitz achieved what many dream of for a lifetime: He is a star with fans in the whole world. And on tour he is recording videos, so that his grandchildren will later believe all that.
The spiky hair, the eyes with black eye shadow, painted fingernails. When HE appears, girls in Germany freak out completely. The same in Israel, France, Portugal, France, Italy or the USA. They camp in front of sold-out concert halls for several days to get the best seats. They hold signs with clear messages up in the air ("I want a child from you"), they swear in love letters filling several pages that they and only they are the greatest fans.
HIS name is Bill Kaulitz, his band Tokio Hotel, spelled like HYSTERIA. What Bill sings, the way he looks, moves and speaks - all that electrifies the young people, it makes/constitutes the success of the band. They see him and see themselves in him - but somehow cooler, more passionate, more heroic. He is the living proof that it will work: young, really young, and being a star. The fact that young people can do something, which also the adults have to pay attention to/take account of.
To his countless fans Bill comes across as sad and fragile but strong. He sings about things, the 16-year-olds only discuss with their friends or entrust the diary. About the separation of parents. The courage to try something new. It's about love, friendship, pain. For many of them the lyrics speak out of their soul (express exactly what they feel) maybe because Tokio Hotel do not annoy their fans with testosterone driven rap - nor with senseless pop-blubbering whose lyrics are only coincidentally in German.
Tokio Hotel lurch between teenage and adulthood, just like their fans. Bill Kaulitz sings that one should live every second here and now: "Ready, set, go! In front of us the sky is changing!" This sense of upheaval, chaos and zest for action. The paranoia that an evening at home alone with their parents can trigger, whereas all others are going out. Every moment something can happen, which may not be repeated.
Two fans and their 20 minutes in heaven
The life of Bill Kaulitz is different. He has been a star for some years now and has grown up in the pop business. He was just 15 when the band released "Durch den Monsun" in 2005. The first single went straight to the top (/through the roof) (more...), a shiny number-one hit.
At that time Bill Kaulitz has still sung significantly higher, his voice bounced a bit. Today, his face has no longer childlike traits, and his three band members - twin brother Tom Kaulitz, Georg and Gustav - have changed as well. But they remain in the shadow of the front man and come across as somehow boyish and uncertain compared to him.
As SPIEGEL ONLINE organized a meeting with Tokio Hotel for two fans 1.5 years ago (more...), Célia and Denise could hardly grasp their luck. They wanted to know everything: How the success feels like, how you can sleep at night when having played a concert of two hours - and if Bill and his brother really get along well.
CÉLIA, DENISE & TOKIO HOTEL: "HE HAS WINKED AT ME!"
photo gallery
At the end there were quite normal teenagers who talked about school, shortcomings in French and stupid teachers. Bill Kaulitz seemed first of all to be shy and polite - as if he is surprised himself about what's this actually bustle around him.
"Pinch me, otherwise I could not believe"
When you ask Bill Kaulitz what he thinks about the success of the band, then he has a thoughtful look and furrows his brow. He says things like: "Sometimes people have to pinch me, so I believe it," or: "I take videos when we are on tour, to show it later to my grandchildren. Otherwise nobody would ever believe me." A dream had come true; he is still getting goose bumps when the fans sing along the texts at concerts.
And the hype is still growing. Meanwhile, it is no longer just the 10- to 21-year-old girls in Germany or Austria, who think of nothing else when a new single is out on the market. The four boys from Magdeburg have fans all over the world now. They tour through nearly all European countries, have performed in the United States and even in Israel.
TREND TO GERMAN IN ISRAEL: TOKIO HOTEL AS AMBASSADOR OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE
photo gallery
Their fans there collected as many signatures until they could send a petition of 6000 young Israelis to the band. Moreover, Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav are the first Germans, who managed to be on the cover of the Israeli Bravo-counterpart "Rosh Echad". To understand and to be able to sing their lyrics, the young Israelis even learn German (more...), like in France (more...) and the USA.
When life purrs together on a second
Such a permanent jubilation with appointment stress and long tours can not pass traceless at any 18-year-old. At the end of March Bill had to undergo vocal cords surgery, a cyst had to be removed. The diagnosis came shortly before the completely sold-out "1000-Hotels" tour should start in Europe and North America.
At the moment Bill Kaulitz may not even speak - he wrote in an e-mail to the magazine "Vanity Fair" that he is worried about his voice. But on May 3 he should perform again at a festival near New York.
The life of Bill Kaulitz has a breathtaking speed for three years now. It seems that everything happens at once, in this moment. In the song "Live every second" he sings:
"From today on, the days are only half as long
there is nothing more to laugh
Yesterday was a hundred thousand years ago
Tomorrow nobody knows it any more
Starting from today, the clock is replaced by the countdown."
If everything purrs together at such a second, then it can happen that Bill Kaulitz, 18, rock star from Magdeburg, envisions his own funeral: "In the coffin, I am completely in black and I wear a leather jacket," he said in an interview shortly before the vocal chord surgery.
21 UNDER 21: OUR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
(literally: bearer of hope, meaning: Germany's hopes are pinned on them)
photo gallery
What should such a boy, who has played before tens of thousands of fans in his youth, do when he is grown up? If the career is over, the fans get older - and live their own dreams? Bill Kaulitz as a trainee, as a student at university?
Hard to imagine. After a youth in Tokio Hotel.
Bill Kaulitz, pop-monsoon from Magdeburg
By Britta Mersch
Wherever he appears, girls compete in extreme screaming. At the age of 18, Tokio-Hotel-singer Bill Kaulitz achieved what many dream of for a lifetime: He is a star with fans in the whole world. And on tour he is recording videos, so that his grandchildren will later believe all that.
The spiky hair, the eyes with black eye shadow, painted fingernails. When HE appears, girls in Germany freak out completely. The same in Israel, France, Portugal, France, Italy or the USA. They camp in front of sold-out concert halls for several days to get the best seats. They hold signs with clear messages up in the air ("I want a child from you"), they swear in love letters filling several pages that they and only they are the greatest fans.
HIS name is Bill Kaulitz, his band Tokio Hotel, spelled like HYSTERIA. What Bill sings, the way he looks, moves and speaks - all that electrifies the young people, it makes/constitutes the success of the band. They see him and see themselves in him - but somehow cooler, more passionate, more heroic. He is the living proof that it will work: young, really young, and being a star. The fact that young people can do something, which also the adults have to pay attention to/take account of.
To his countless fans Bill comes across as sad and fragile but strong. He sings about things, the 16-year-olds only discuss with their friends or entrust the diary. About the separation of parents. The courage to try something new. It's about love, friendship, pain. For many of them the lyrics speak out of their soul (express exactly what they feel) maybe because Tokio Hotel do not annoy their fans with testosterone driven rap - nor with senseless pop-blubbering whose lyrics are only coincidentally in German.
Tokio Hotel lurch between teenage and adulthood, just like their fans. Bill Kaulitz sings that one should live every second here and now: "Ready, set, go! In front of us the sky is changing!" This sense of upheaval, chaos and zest for action. The paranoia that an evening at home alone with their parents can trigger, whereas all others are going out. Every moment something can happen, which may not be repeated.
Two fans and their 20 minutes in heaven
The life of Bill Kaulitz is different. He has been a star for some years now and has grown up in the pop business. He was just 15 when the band released "Durch den Monsun" in 2005. The first single went straight to the top (/through the roof) (more...), a shiny number-one hit.
At that time Bill Kaulitz has still sung significantly higher, his voice bounced a bit. Today, his face has no longer childlike traits, and his three band members - twin brother Tom Kaulitz, Georg and Gustav - have changed as well. But they remain in the shadow of the front man and come across as somehow boyish and uncertain compared to him.
As SPIEGEL ONLINE organized a meeting with Tokio Hotel for two fans 1.5 years ago (more...), Célia and Denise could hardly grasp their luck. They wanted to know everything: How the success feels like, how you can sleep at night when having played a concert of two hours - and if Bill and his brother really get along well.
CÉLIA, DENISE & TOKIO HOTEL: "HE HAS WINKED AT ME!"
photo gallery
At the end there were quite normal teenagers who talked about school, shortcomings in French and stupid teachers. Bill Kaulitz seemed first of all to be shy and polite - as if he is surprised himself about what's this actually bustle around him.
"Pinch me, otherwise I could not believe"
When you ask Bill Kaulitz what he thinks about the success of the band, then he has a thoughtful look and furrows his brow. He says things like: "Sometimes people have to pinch me, so I believe it," or: "I take videos when we are on tour, to show it later to my grandchildren. Otherwise nobody would ever believe me." A dream had come true; he is still getting goose bumps when the fans sing along the texts at concerts.
And the hype is still growing. Meanwhile, it is no longer just the 10- to 21-year-old girls in Germany or Austria, who think of nothing else when a new single is out on the market. The four boys from Magdeburg have fans all over the world now. They tour through nearly all European countries, have performed in the United States and even in Israel.
TREND TO GERMAN IN ISRAEL: TOKIO HOTEL AS AMBASSADOR OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE
photo gallery
Their fans there collected as many signatures until they could send a petition of 6000 young Israelis to the band. Moreover, Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav are the first Germans, who managed to be on the cover of the Israeli Bravo-counterpart "Rosh Echad". To understand and to be able to sing their lyrics, the young Israelis even learn German (more...), like in France (more...) and the USA.
When life purrs together on a second
Such a permanent jubilation with appointment stress and long tours can not pass traceless at any 18-year-old. At the end of March Bill had to undergo vocal cords surgery, a cyst had to be removed. The diagnosis came shortly before the completely sold-out "1000-Hotels" tour should start in Europe and North America.
At the moment Bill Kaulitz may not even speak - he wrote in an e-mail to the magazine "Vanity Fair" that he is worried about his voice. But on May 3 he should perform again at a festival near New York.
The life of Bill Kaulitz has a breathtaking speed for three years now. It seems that everything happens at once, in this moment. In the song "Live every second" he sings:
"From today on, the days are only half as long
there is nothing more to laugh
Yesterday was a hundred thousand years ago
Tomorrow nobody knows it any more
Starting from today, the clock is replaced by the countdown."
If everything purrs together at such a second, then it can happen that Bill Kaulitz, 18, rock star from Magdeburg, envisions his own funeral: "In the coffin, I am completely in black and I wear a leather jacket," he said in an interview shortly before the vocal chord surgery.
21 UNDER 21: OUR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
(literally: bearer of hope, meaning: Germany's hopes are pinned on them)
photo gallery
What should such a boy, who has played before tens of thousands of fans in his youth, do when he is grown up? If the career is over, the fans get older - and live their own dreams? Bill Kaulitz as a trainee, as a student at university?
Hard to imagine. After a youth in Tokio Hotel.