Billboard: Hi, guys! Today we will play in game-interview. The rules are: you pick a card in turns and ask the question to who is sitting next to you.
Tom: I start!
Billboard: Ok. I remind that you need to question the person next to you.
Tom: Oh, next to me! Ok.
Georg: This question is perfect for Bill.
Tom: What is the silly thing you did at a concert?
Bill: The silliest thing I did at a concert.
Tom: No, silly.
Bill: Yeah. You know, there are some kind of mistakes that are happening sometimes. So, it’s like silly things, you know, [once] we all fell from the stage together in… Where was it?
Georg: I think, it was in Russia, in Saint-Petersburg…
Tom: No, but it was in Russia.
Bill: It was in Russia somewhere.
Tom: Riga.
Georg: No, it’s not Riga.
Bill: Whatever, somewhere. And the stage had broken down and we all were on the catwalk, it was kind of funny. And oh! The first show we had on our last tour in «Luxemburg». Yes, how [do you say] «Luxemburg» in English?
Georg: Luxembourg.
Bill: I was falling off the stage, the catwalk was too short. I thought it’s longer.
Tom: But Bill himself is this silly thing.
Bill: This kind of stuff happens to everyone.

Bill: What is good and what’s bad in Germany? Oh, ok. Tom… (Laughing)
Tom: Me? What’s really amazing in Germany is Magdeburg, that is really a nice city. I think there are really good clubs in Magdeburg. You can go to «Factory», that is a really good club. What else is good in Magdeburg? Oh, in Germany?
Georg: I don’t know. What’s really good in Germany is that you can drive fast cars…
Tom: That is right.
Bill: The best thing. That is best thing ever. I think that’s not [possible] in any other countries, alright?
Tom: No.
Georg: No, this is only left in Germany.
Bill: That is a lot of fun. Only on German Autobahn you can drive as fast as you want.
Tom: What is not good, for example, I mean, if you are not a good looking guy like Georg, it is really hard to get women. You know, you have to pay a lot of money. It is really expensive. That is maybe a bad thing in Germany. Prostitutes are very expensive.
Bill: (Looking at Gustav’s question) I know.
Gustav: What song will be played at your funeral?
All: Oh.
Tom: That is a good question.
Bill: That is a good question. I have like a playlist, you know, for my funeral. It’s like, you know, I’ll have kind of a compilation with a lot of different stuff, because you can change it as you want. So definitely «Tokio Hotel» because you know that is the big love of our lives.
Georg: Which songs?
Bill: It is really hard. I think…
Georg: «Don’t Jump».
Bill: Yeah, «Don’t Jump». I think…
Tom: Maybe, «Ready, Set, Go» would be a good song.
Georg: «Human Connect to Human».
Bill: Or «Rescue Me». I mean it will be too late, but… No, at the moment…Tom and me…
Tom: «Live Every Second» (Laughing)
Bill: What? «Live Every Second» (All are laughing)
Bill: No, i think «Anthony Hammond», he is a great musician that I love as a singer. And another song from my childhood would be «Magic Dance» from David Bowie. This is kind of a fun song, he did for «Labyrinth» which was my childhood movie.

Tom: Yeah. [a] Person who did change my life. I’ll answer this question! Georg has changed it, but it’s for the best! I met him 10-11 years ago and [it] happened…
Bill: Haircut!
Tom: Exactly!
Georg: Tell some fact about the person sitting right to you (that surprises fans).
Bill: To Tom.
Georg: Tell something that the fans don’t know about you.
Tom: No, you have to tell [something] about me.
Georg: I tell something about you. Oh, ok. (Tom is laughing) Mmm…
Tom: Tom’s new piercing.
Georg: That’s maybe the most important thing which happened [in] the last month.
Tom: I have a new piercing.
Bill: Oh, what should be written on your gravestone? Tom…
Tom: On my gravestone – «A psalm a day keeps the doctor away.» (Laughing)
Bill: Awesome. (Laughing)
Gustav: Tell something bad about the person sitting [to your] right.
Bill: Tell something bad.
Tom: About what?
Bill: About me.
Georg: Something bad about you.
Gustav: There are no bad things to tell about Bill. He is just perfect.
Tom: He is silly. He lost his mind. It’s cool.
Bill: Yeah.
Billboard: Ok. Yeah, Tom. I think, that is a good question.
Tom: This is a good question? (Reading and laughing). That is good for Georg, right? You are sitting on the toilet and there is no [toilet] paper left. What do you do?
George: I always take paper with me.
Tom: Georg, I mean, when we were on holidays and he made big business in the water.
Georg: What? (Georg is laughing)
Tom: At the beach, there were a lot of stones. And it was like a stone beach and he took some stones.
Georg: What nickname did you have at school? Bill.
Bill: «Hobbit». [that's] His nickname.
Georg: I asked your nickname.
Bill: I’ve seriously never had a nickname.
Georg: What? Your nickname was…Tom, oh Bill, you wanna tell what your nickname was.
Bill: Which nickname do you mean? Maybe, you had a nickname for me. But seriously I had no nickname for myself. I just think that my name was short enough. I was only just called » Bill».
Tom: Everyone wase like: «Hey, where is the loser? Hey Tom, where is your loser-brother?»
George: Actually, you have to know: Bill is his nickname. His name is William. (Laughing)

Bill: Oh, if I could destroy one bad thing in the world it would be…
Tom: What? [something] Bad?
Bill: Bad thing. I think, you know for me and especially for Tom and me, I think… We love animals so much. Tom and me, we are vegetarian and we never wear fur. I think, the world should take more care of our animals we have. The last time when were in Africa, and we heard that animals die out because of humans’ activities. I would say: «We should take more care of our animals.» That will be something really important to me, yeah.
Gustav: Georg, choose your female name for yourself.
Bill: «Jacqueline» would be very, very nice.
Georg: I think that will be great.
Tom: «Ingeborg» (Laughing)
Gustav: I don’t know perfectly.
Bill: I think «Georgina».
Tom: Cool!
Georg: «Georgina». Yes, «Georgina» is a good name.
Tom: Ok. Is it right that Germany is famous because of its cars, football and porn?
Georg: Porn? I think that is not good job.
Tom: Porn. I viewed some short porn films for you.
Georg: Yeah, but…that is not good.
Tom: I mean I’ve chosen the best videos for Georg on [xxx].
Tom: Cars, yes. There are beautiful cars in Germany.
Bill: Tom and me, we are driving «Audi», so…
Tom: I have an «A8».
Bill: I drive a «Q7». A new one which is beautiful.
Georg: What will you do if you become invisible?
Tom: Mmm, I always said that I would go to the show of Jessica Alba, [but] she has a child now. So…
Georg: Isn’t she pregnant again?
Tom: She is pregnant again, yeah. It’s not my child, but…
Georg: Are you sure?
Tom: Yes, and I’m very upset.
Georg: Maybe, I would go to a bank and get me some money.
Tom: Some money? But you have enough money.
Georg: Yeah, that’s right. (Laughing)
Bill: I would like to play tricks on people. Like, you know, taking someone’s clothes off.
Georg: I don’t think that is funny.
Bill: I love all that [kind of] stuff, you know, have this on [hidden] cameras and I love those shows.
Tom: I would hit Georg the whole day.
Bill: And that will be fun.
Georg: That is great idea.
Omg, these guys are crazy! I do not know who made the translation but our thanks go to them!!!

Tokio Hotel, Bill Kaulitz, Tom Kaulitz, Georg Listing, Gustav Schäfer… an amazing band. <3333333

And, woe, the videos in our original post back in November 2009 are dead, so yay for these!
http://www.tokiohotelamerica.com/2009/11/26/teen-com-band-superlatives/

But, it is fun to read the old comments and stuff.

Automatic and the video

Superlatives

So funny at the end, Gustav says his biggest lie is that he says he loves the guys, and they say “Oh, you are so sweet” – LOL

november 9th: we invited germany’s biggest teenie-stars over for a talk.
the ochsenknecht and the kaulitz brothers- born at the age of reunion- on eastern & western germany, old home and new values.

Berlin-Mitte, a suite in the “Ritz Carlton”- every girl below 16 would have to be instantly re-animated: the four most important boys of germany are sitting on a leather sofa, are eating gummy bears and are getting into the talk. in the back, on the carpet floor, is sitting the entourage: grown-up people who are wearing crew-tickets around their necks and are giving us a hard time because time is short. right now, everyone wants the Kaulitz and Ochsenknecht brothers. two of them are touring through france with Tokio Hotel, the other two have just signed their record deals and done new movies. all four of them are very well behaved: get up, shake hands, say “glad to meet you”- they’re obviously not doing it for the first time. our plan: talk to them about their home, their country, meaning germany. talk with Bill and Tom Kaulitz from Loitsche near Magdeburg and Jimi Blue and Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht, the high-society kids from Grünwald near Munich.

SZ-Magazin: exactly 18 years ago, the wall fell, so you’re all about as old as the reunited germany. what does that day mean to you?

Bill: people celebrate. and we celebrate with them, even though we were not really affected by it. sill, we’re happy that we profited from the fall of the wall.
Jimi Blue (JB): my dad told me about it but a real meaning- not really, well, maybe a bit.
Tom: honestly, i don’t really care for that day.
Wilson Gonzales (WZ): it’s certainly touching to see reports on tv about how happy people were back then when they broke through the wall and were able to hug the people on the other side of the wall. when i see that, i realize how bad it must have been to live behind a wall like that.

what do you associate with the DDR (= eastern germany)?

Bill: it was never a hot topic for us. true, we’re touring other countries a lot and keep getting asked about it but i can only say it again: we only ever knew germany as one country.
Tom: the other day, someone in Italy asked us whether we’re excited because we’re from eastern germany and we’re able to see Rome now. and once, people even offered us bananas.
WG: i’ve been to an art school in Los Angeles for a year and people kept asking me about what Hitler is doing right now and whether we actually have fridges in germany already. someone needs to whack americans over the head so that they understand that germany is a normal country. there’s a lot of people in the USA who still believe what a lot of germans still think about eastern europe, namely that it’s totally lagging behind and uninteresting. when i think of the DDR, only the flag comes to mind with the hammer and the sickle. what about you, Jimi?
JB: what?
Bill: *laughs* didn’t pay attention, aw!
JB: well, i also only remember the flag.

WG and JB grew up in Grünwald, which is the posh district in munich and on top of that they were born into a popular family; Bill and Tom, you’re from Loitsche, a village in Magdeburg. would you say your childhood was more difficult?

Bill: east and west- i don’t make a difference. we also don’t make this “ossie” (people from eastern germany) and “wessi” (people from western germany) difference at all, those espressions don’t even exist for us anymore, except maybe for our teachers. i think the much bigger difference is: we grew up in a village and you in the city.
WG: Grünwald is just a village as well but true, it’s close to the city and that’s why we probably hung out there more. besides that, we accompanied our dad to premieres or filmings every now and then.
Tom: growing up in a village ain’t all that bad, at least until you’re a certain age. i mean where in the city can you build tree-houses? on the other hand, Bill and i always drew unwanted attention to us because we were looking different than the others. that’s why we’ve been dreaming of moving to Berlin from a young age on because everyone can run around there however they want to.
Bill: freedom has always been the most important thing for us. which is why i had “freiheit” tattooed on my left arm shortly before our 18th birthday.

can you still remember your first trip to Berlin?

Bill: sure, when we were 12, we got into a train and went there. Tom and i hardly had any money but we absolutely wanted to go up to the tv-tower. up there, we had much too expensive coffee- latte macchiato of course- and pretended to be able to afford it.
WG: i was 6 or 7 and can only remember going by subway and being in a sushi-bar. Berlin was like a small district of New York to me back then, i still remember that. today, i think that the people in Berlin are much more friendly than in Munich. they don’t care what you’re wearing but what brains you got. Berlin isn’t necessarily the cleanest but certainly the most artistic city in germany.
JB: true, there were a lot of stuck up people in Munich. everything’s much more mixed up in Berlin, there’s petty people and punks, a couple of freaks.. everything’s possible.

you’re on the road a lot more than other teenagers your age to go to concerts and filmings. where do you really feel at home?

Bill: in germany all the way even down to the point where i feel much more at home in german hotels than in hotels in say, Moscow or Paris, no matter how luxurious they are. especially the language gives you a feeling of being at home.
WG: true, that’s what i really figured out during my year in america- home hasn’t got anything to do with a certain town or place. and something else i noticed: a lot of people are dissing germany. and they’re wrong. germany is an awesome country, a lot better and more positive than the USA. americans are very artificial and way too many things are being directed by the state over there. you don’t get alcohol until you’re 21 and you can’t even smoke in your own home anymore when you live in a flat (note: ooohh, i hope i got that one right! *squints*)- you gotta imagine that!
JB: well, i think america is better than germany. it’s warm, the people are nice, they got nice beaches, Venice Beach and Las Vegas. i’d like to live there one day.
Tom: in other countries, there’s a lot of things you gotta get used to like for example that things can be really unorganized sometimes. germans are usually better at planning things, like the “Echo” awards in Berlin where we started practising two days ago- in Italy for example, big shows like that are being filmed right away. or Moscow: they didn’t even have finished building the stage an hour before the show.

is there something you don’t like about Germany?

Bill: clearly the school system. i’d grade it F.
WG: especially in bavaria!
Tom: the german school system differs from land to land- everyone’s on a different level. when you come to another city because you moved for example, you feel like you’ve landed on an entirely different planet.
WG: i changed schools a couple of times and loathed maths in one school and german in the other, that’s weird.
JB: which is why i quit school altogether. i still got a private teacher because of the education and stuff but school ain’t my kinda thing.

there’s this term of “german pettyness”. who or what do you think is petty?

WG: the kids in the posh clubs in Munich, the “P1″ for example, who throw their parent’s money around and run around in polo-shirts with the collars put up, those are petty. they think they can impress people with daddy’s credit card. i’m proud of earning my own money and can invite my friends for a drink every now and then.
Bill: i’m petty when it comes to one thing: being punctual. that’s really important to me. and being reliable.
JB: i’m pretty petty when it comes to food. i always need two forks, one for the main dish and one for the salad. and if i see even one mouldy spot in the shower, i’d rather not shower at all.
Tom: to me, petty people are people who are intolerant who got no way to express themselves and are always living by the rules. and i don’t mean laws by that but rules they made up themselves or let other people make up for themselves. people who only do what other people tell them to and who never peek over the edge of the plate and who always say “don’t do that! you’re not supposed to do that!” we used to live in a detached house settlement once, in an area with playing-roads and stuff and man, there were some really petty people there. but we’re far away from all that already.

the past couple of weeks ago, the media has been talking a lot about the “german autumn”. RAF – does that tell you anything at all?
(note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction)

WG: there was this one terrorist they let lose again. or didn’t they? or did they just protest against letting her free again?
JB: i read something about that in the Spiegel. that was interesting because Grünwald is near Straßlach where someone got killed back then, a president or something, at least there’s a memorial plate there.
WG: punk was founded at the same time, that honestly interests me more than the RAF.

the main focus of the RAF was among others to split wealth apart differently and more fairly. what do you think about that?

WG: people who are at the bottom nowadays don’t often even make an effort to climb to the top. they don’t try hard enough and maybe that’s why they become criminals.
JB: i think about that a lot, you know, why that’s the case that the rich people get everything trown at them as presents and the poorer people gotta buy everything themselves. when i’ve gotten older, i really am gonna change something about that, i don’t know what yet but i’ll at least give it a try.
Tom: still, there’s some kind of middle-class in germany. like our family for example. we were neither rich nor poor. in the end, everyone’s gotta make their own way and learn how to deal with frustrations of all kinds. we turned it into music, others are demonstrating or kick-boxing.

what kind of frustration?

Bill: we used to rebel for ourselves. we hated school and our teachers were really bad. my big advantage always was that i knew my rights. e.g. i knew when tests that weren’t handed back on time would expire. our mom had to run to school almost every day to listen about how horrible their sons were.
JB: when i was in fifth class, teachers used to mob me saying stuff like “you think you’re something better than the rest because your dad is Uwe Ochsenknecht.”
WG: yeah, teachers used to yell at us a lot, i even got nine reprimands in one week once. shortly before they threw me out once and for all, i quit school

Che Guevara used to be a teenage idol back in the days- who’s your hero now?

Tom: when we still used to go clubbing, a lot of people wore Che Guevara shirts. there were a lot of demonstrations going on around us, also started by punks, so rebellion was definitely a major topic back then.
WG: i used to stand together with about 3.000 punks on the Marienplatz to demonstate against the NPD (note: the neo-nazi party in germany). but overall, there’s not a whole lot of reasons to demonstate against stuff in germany. if i was living in the USA, i could think of thousands of reasons but over here?

are there any politicians you have a liking for?

Bill: i don’t talk about stuff like that. i don’t want to manipulate anyone by my personal decision or my choice of voting. everyone’s gotta have their own opinion.
Tom: but we definitely do vote, since we’re finally 18 and all. (note: good boys. )
WG: the parties can go to war against each other for all i care. when i turn 18, i’m definitely gonna go to vote and then i’ll also inform myself properly about it. now i got different idols, like the musician Tom Morello for example (note: guitarist of Rage against the Machine). he is playing for free during demonstrations to support good causes. he doesn’t care for the money but for the cause.

you were born directly into the era Kohl. do you remember him?
(note: Helmut Kohl: german chansellor (CDU) until 1998 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl)

Tom: *shapes a pear with his hand* the kinda big guy?

and Gerhard Schröder?
(note: G. Schröder: german chansellor (SPD) following Kohl until 2005 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der)

WG: hm, SPD?
Tom: *laughs* yeah, i’d have known that too.

your generation was branded by cold war, tschernobyl, forest-death and atom-energy. what was the major happenings, the turning points of your youth?

WG: certainly sept. 11th, but mostly what happened afterwards. i’ve been watching a lot of documentaries about the attack on the WTC and i realized: in the end, the americans beat themselves with their own weapons since they enabled Bin Laden in the first place. that’s when i realized how the world nowadays is working and that America is the world-police who’s butting in into everyone’s business. on the one side, i’m sure they want to help but on the other hand, they want to get the biggest possible profit out of it at the same time. germany is a lot more laid back about all that, they do whatever they think is right and don’t let themselves get dragged into all kinds of shit.
Bill: of course a lot of stuff happened during our childhood that we think about, mainly of course sept. 11th. still, we try not to let our fears block us.

can you imagine joining the army and maybe even go to Afghanistan to help re-build the country again?

JB: no way. i’m just so lazy. always being on edge, giving 100%, that’d be way too stressful for me. i’m going to be doing social service for sure. i’d be nothing but scared in Afghanistan, that’s so not my cup of tea.
WG: the army turned me down already due to my funnel chest. but the army wouldn’t me my thing anyway, i’d rather stay by my friends and help out in social homes or handicapped homes.
Tom: we’ll think about that when we’re invited to the medical examination for the military service.

how do you like to live when you get older?

Tom: like the Stones. i want to be standing on stage all my life.
Bill: i’d like to have my own label one day and a flat in another country. still: my roots are in germany and i always want to come back here.
JB: i’d like to be a fashion designer one day. maybe i’ll get that out of my two years at the Waldorf-School. (note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_school)
WG: i’d like to have a gigantic company that produces all kinds of stuff: movies, music, furniture, fashion and condoms.

can you still remember the first time you’ve heard from each other?

JB: i read about Tokio Hotel in the Bravo.
WG: a couple of years ago, a friend gave me a CD from you guys and said: look, that’s a new german band. i liked it, i can still remember that.
Bill: well, we saw a movie with you guys and we noticed that you’re about the same age as us of course. you pay more attention then when you notice that and check out the people more.
WG: when i first saw a picture of Tokio Hotel, i thought: wow, those are freaks.

WG, 17, and JB, 15, are the sons of the german actor Uwe Ochsenknecht. they have been playing the lead roles in the movies “Die Wilden Kerle 1-4″. furthermore, JB is releasing his first album “Mission Blue”, the single “I’m lovin’ (l.r.h.p.)” has been in the Top 10 for weeks.

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In 2011, I have no idea what, if any, careers Jimi Blue and Wilson Gonzales Ochsenknecht still have.