2007-03-26 14:34:15 · 0 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Doing a Yahoo! Search for the Word, of couse i ended up learning a whole lot more about the band!
Rammstein takes its name indirectly from the western German town of Ramstein-Miesenbach, site of an airshow disaster in 1988. The band's signature song, the eponymous "Rammstein", is a commemoration of the tragedy that took place at the Ramstein Air Base. The extra "m" in the band's name allows the word to mean "battering ram" (literally "ramming stone"), reinforcing the image of the band's music as fierce and relentless. Also, the verb "rammen" in German, means to hit something. With that said, the name is really a wordgame, made of the town's name and an extra "m" in relation to the air-show tragedy.
The asteroid 110393 Rammstein is named in the band's honour.
Language/German
Stein (i.e. "Bier Stein", pronounced [beer stīn], a large drinking mug, usually for beer, made of materials ranging from wood to plastic; the English word refers to the decorated, ceramic version of the artifact. In German, the word stein means "stone", but its English form originates from Steinkrug, meaning "stone mug"; Germans also refer to it as a Bierkrug.)
Rammstein = "ramming stone" (literal) or "battering ram" (figurative), refers to the Ramstein airshow disaster. Some translate it as "[stone] hammerhead"
Deutsch (German)
n. - Widder, Schafbock, Rammbock
v. - rammen, feststampfen
idioms:
ram down someone's throat jmdm. aufdrängen
ram home etwas deutlich vor Augen führen
2007-03-26 14:52:43 · answer #1 · answered by mabzar 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Define Battering Ram
2016-10-02 11:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ammstein is German for "Ramming Stone". This is what Till has to say about where they got their name (Taken from an MTV interview): "The name came from the big catastrophe that happened in Ramstein, which is a place in Germany, where the American airforce had a flight show. They crashed and over 80 people got hurt and killed. So the first song, actually, was about that accident. And then there was always like a cause when they'd say: "Ramstein, Ramstein!" So it came into our head and it stayed there. We just changed the spelling slightly because Ramstein is actually spelt with one "m". It also became somewhat of a provocation, by just repeating it, it kind of became like a symbol for us, an anthem."
2016-03-17 07:05:08 · answer #3 · answered by Jennie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. However, some sources attribute the band's name to the Ramstein airshow disaster.
2007-03-26 14:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by Misanthropist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. It means "Ramming Beer Mug."
2007-03-26 14:36:51 · answer #5 · answered by lucyanddesi 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋