Richard Kruspe was born on 24 June, 1967 in a little village called Waisen, East Germany. Later when he was a teenager he went to music school in a small town Schwerin.

Richard was good wrestler for seven years. One time he has bought a guitar in Czech for sell it in Germany…

“I bought a guitar in Czechoslovakia in order to sell it here and make some money, but there was this one annoying girl in a summer camp I was in, who was always asking me to play it – saying “Play something! Play something!” even though I kept telling her I couldn’t play. One day I just picked the fucking thing up and started strumming it – and she really loved it. Did I score with her? No… but I did think that maybe I should get this guitar thing going!” (Richard Kruspe for Metal Hammer, November, 2007)

But before he became great and professional musician he worked as professional chef and his main dish is duck. Richard worked as a driver for a car company and as a window’s cleaner and then he made jewelery.

Richard Kruspe afraid of heights, but I think he is flying very high. After he left Rammstein, he formed his own band Emigrate, which became part of Richard’s life, and released debut album “Emigrate”.

Richard told to Metal Hammer: “The guys in Rammstein basically told me, ‘We can’t deal with you any more – you’re too much!’”

He worked in studio for 18 or 20 hours every day and band couldn’t get through it. At the same time Richard has drug problems and when he moved to New York he decided to get clean. He didn’t go to rehab, he did it by himself.

“And a lot of good music, honestly, gets written on drugs – and I had a hard time returning to my situation, where I thought I couldn’t write music without drugs”, said Richard. (Metal Hammer, November, 2007)

So, what about Rammstein? Richard told: “I realised that I had to go away and really try to forget everything about my past.”, and, “I didn’t leave to band, no – I just wanted to get away. I wasn’t in a situation where I could make decision for myself, I just realised I had to take a break.”(Metal Hammer, November, 2007)

Many fans thought that Richard quit Rammstein forever, but he didn’t. He just took a break and all members of Rammstein already back to rehearsal in Baltic Sea. They are working for new album.

I heard on many forums that Till Lindemann left Rammstein, but Richard said this is not true. He said: “Someone in America decided to put something out, and I have no fucking clue why.”