Lyrics of Rammstein song “Angst” and English translation

I didn’t expect to find so many dumb comments under this song’s lyrics. Holy f***! How dumb should you be to not get the metaphor and instead try to fit in your race politics or other american bulls**t. It is like… I have no words…

Anyway, I think black man is a metaphor for scary man, which parents use to scare children. Black in this case – is not about the colour of the skin, but the theme of dark, fear and scary. And the song (and video confirms it) shows how, because of this imaginary fear people build walls, stick to old ideas (out of fear of change), and, in the end – turn for protection to the strong leader or some sort of regime based on the force and power.

If person is weak and don’t believe in his own strength, seeks for protection elsewhere – in the end it will come to such a society where everyone is hiding between their screen, fear each other and choose to be dumbed down by propaganda.

Seems to me the scharzmen Mann reference from germanic folk tales, similar to the bogeyman, is here used as a metaphor for xenophobia. It’s a double entendre. It’s pretty on the nose.

It’s not about black people.
Scharzenr Mann is a traditional Germanic children’s game dating back to the middle ages.
It’s a symbol for the dead .
If you Google it you find the rules for this game on the Internet

Another complaint about the slowness of Affenknecht posting the rest of the translations. This album has been out for weeks!

So maybe “The Dark Man” would be a better translation?

In case anyone was still doubting that there’s any reference to “the black man” as in actual people, note how at the end of the video they’re eating a so-called “Mohrenkopf”, translated “Moorhead”, or in Dutch it also used to be called “negerzoen”, which translates to “negrokiss” (for some reason), which is a kind of traditional regional snack made of chocolate (and more).
But while “Moor” (which broadly refers to different peoples from Africa, the Middle-East, and probably other places) and “negro” aren’t necessarily offensive terms, they still became controversial and not to be used lightly over the years, especially in the last decade or two of course. And so, the names of this snack in The Netherlands, and apparently also Germany (perhaps also other countries), became considered to be derogatory of “black people”, akin to the use of “blackface” and other old-fashioned norms.
People called for it to be changed and that was history.

I’m just saying, of all the things they could be doing or eating, sitting there in their typical “white man” outfits, being mesmerized by the television, why the controversial “Mohrenkopf”. – That’s no accident.
If anything, it makes it all the more poignant that they’re biting into the symbolic “Moorheads”, sucking out the filling, especially with the woman and child looking at them doing so.

It might be referring to that “boogeyman” in German folklore, or whatever it is exactly, which they told children about. But it’s basically thát for adults and they’re still living with that idea of “the boogeyman”, or “the black man”, leading to xenophobia and so forth, as we still see people living in paranoia, clearly evident on record in our everyday lives.

The video indicates to me that this is (at least partially) an indictment of the American alt-right and how history seems bound to repeat itself as a result of the 2016 election.

Yes, Schwarze Mann is bogey man…I grew up with it.

Okay hold on now- Do we mean “Black man” as in (A) men of African descent, or (B) a shadow man as in a personification of threat?

“Wenn die Kinder unerzogen” is not the children beeing uneducated, “unerzogen” means “naughty” in this context.

And I think it has been discussed anywhere on YouTube, but “Der schwarze Mann” has the double meaning of literally “the black man” and figuratively “the boogeyman”. Which is intended and a political comment, that’s why there are black refugees in the video at the beginning and end. And it’s a woman and a child, not a man. The black man is not there. Like the boogeyman in a political sense is a threat that’s not there (real).

I hope the rest of the lyrics will be translated soon!

It’s too bad that we invented the “bogeyman” before we knew there were real black people…So sad that real persons can be confused by such a coincidence.

No doubt what this song is about!
Love the video and music, hard hitting.
This time rather than it just being about the people growing old, it is about the conservation of outdated, old ideas. So still fitting the theme of the album.

meaning of the song, more than likely, is about the media controlling people. till, the crazy man, talks into a microphone and his bed is wired into the bands heads. im sure this song is all about being controlled by media.

Isn’t zwarzen Mann the German word for ‘the boogeyman’?
The boogeyman will get you if you don’t listen to your parents

So in first instance, the song is not about black/colored people.

The video could be seen as people being afraid of refugees/foreigners so it’s a bit confusing