In the picture: Celebrated. Tom Kaulitz,
Gustav Schäfer, Georg Listing und Bill Kaulitz after their performance
at the Echo 2007.
Next to the picture: “We were FOLLOWED day and night by lunatics!”
Sentence above the red line: “Our life in L.A. is more free than it ever was.”
Next to the picture on the right bottom: INTERVIEW. Bill and Tom Kaulitz with BUNTE-journalist Kirsten Reineke.
Only a few minutes to separate them: Tom Kaulitz was born in 1989 at 06:20, his twin brother Bill ten minutes later. The younger Dieter Bohlen calls, 58, “a gift from God”. Not from this world. And indeed, Bill Kaulitz looks with his feminine facial features and the shrill clothes like a creature from another planet. Tom, however, is boyish, a young womanizer.
The 23-years-old brothers do everything together. From 5th January they’re both a part of the judges of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”. A little sensation, because despite their success with the band Tokio Hotel (sold over eight million copies), the boys have gone into hiding two years ago.
You moved in 2010 to Los Angeles to take a break. Why you’ve left Germany?
Bill Kaulitz: We longed for a home and a private life. That was no longer possible in Germany.
Why?
Tom Kaulitz: could not go outside without being photographed or besieged by lunatics. That was a nightmare.
Bill: We had security around us 24/7, lived like in prison, behind a two meters high opaque fence.
Tom, you said once in an interview: It’s scary what kind of sick and dangerous people are out there.
Tom: There are people who have given their lives for Tokio Hotel. A love-hate relationship. They want to control our entire life. All employees who have entered our house, were spied on - whether a cleaner or a craftsmen. This has nothing to do with being a normal fan.
Bill: A 24 hours psychological terror!
Tom: It was as if you have a spy on the neck. They were incredibly well organized. We just thought: How can they know where we are now? And this even though we worked together with the police.
Can you explain their obsession?
Tom: They’re so dangerous, because they have nothing left to lose.All their problems, they project completely on us.
How far these stalkers are went?
Bill: They didn’t had any limits.To those, every means was good to get some feedback from us.
No one could handle that. When it was finally enough for you?
Tom: When they pushed us off the street with their car.
Excuse me?
Bill: We were in the car with family members. Towards our family and friends we have a natural protective instinct, like everyone does. If these people get too close to your family, you act instinctively.
You’ve compared your life with Britney Spears life. Could you empathize that she has shaved bald?
Bill: I can understand her situation 100 percent. Behind this lies a desire for freedom, you don’t want your life to be determined by other people. And if you want to be bald from one day to another you just do it.
How much youth you’ve lost because of Tokio Hotel?
Tom: We had a great time, of course, back then, we never want to miss. What was taken from us early, is the ease.
What do you mean?
Bill: We did have a company with 15 years with lawyers, tax advisors and managers. Everything on our payroll. But that was a good thing. We hate superiors
Bill, you couldn’t fall in love since you were 14. Also, because you have a problem with it to trust people. How much do you miss this love?
Bill: I lack, in this fast life, the constancy. I’ve always longed to have someone who’s just there. Of course I have Tom. I’m incredibly glad that we are brothers. As a solo artist, I could not work.
Why you moved to Los Angeles and not somewhere else?
Tom: We have not gone there in order to live a glamorous life. We have there our studios, were able to withdraw privately.
Bill: Our life is more free than ever! We especially enjoy the work on our new album, we’re working on it every day.
How long will you live in the U.S.?
Tom: We are quickly bored. It may be that in a few months we come back to Germany.
Translation by: BTK Twins Archive
Next to the picture: “We were FOLLOWED day and night by lunatics!”
Sentence above the red line: “Our life in L.A. is more free than it ever was.”
Next to the picture on the right bottom: INTERVIEW. Bill and Tom Kaulitz with BUNTE-journalist Kirsten Reineke.
Only a few minutes to separate them: Tom Kaulitz was born in 1989 at 06:20, his twin brother Bill ten minutes later. The younger Dieter Bohlen calls, 58, “a gift from God”. Not from this world. And indeed, Bill Kaulitz looks with his feminine facial features and the shrill clothes like a creature from another planet. Tom, however, is boyish, a young womanizer.
The 23-years-old brothers do everything together. From 5th January they’re both a part of the judges of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”. A little sensation, because despite their success with the band Tokio Hotel (sold over eight million copies), the boys have gone into hiding two years ago.
You moved in 2010 to Los Angeles to take a break. Why you’ve left Germany?
Bill Kaulitz: We longed for a home and a private life. That was no longer possible in Germany.
Why?
Tom Kaulitz: could not go outside without being photographed or besieged by lunatics. That was a nightmare.
Bill: We had security around us 24/7, lived like in prison, behind a two meters high opaque fence.
Tom, you said once in an interview: It’s scary what kind of sick and dangerous people are out there.
Tom: There are people who have given their lives for Tokio Hotel. A love-hate relationship. They want to control our entire life. All employees who have entered our house, were spied on - whether a cleaner or a craftsmen. This has nothing to do with being a normal fan.
Bill: A 24 hours psychological terror!
Tom: It was as if you have a spy on the neck. They were incredibly well organized. We just thought: How can they know where we are now? And this even though we worked together with the police.
Can you explain their obsession?
Tom: They’re so dangerous, because they have nothing left to lose.All their problems, they project completely on us.
How far these stalkers are went?
Bill: They didn’t had any limits.To those, every means was good to get some feedback from us.
No one could handle that. When it was finally enough for you?
Tom: When they pushed us off the street with their car.
Excuse me?
Bill: We were in the car with family members. Towards our family and friends we have a natural protective instinct, like everyone does. If these people get too close to your family, you act instinctively.
You’ve compared your life with Britney Spears life. Could you empathize that she has shaved bald?
Bill: I can understand her situation 100 percent. Behind this lies a desire for freedom, you don’t want your life to be determined by other people. And if you want to be bald from one day to another you just do it.
How much youth you’ve lost because of Tokio Hotel?
Tom: We had a great time, of course, back then, we never want to miss. What was taken from us early, is the ease.
What do you mean?
Bill: We did have a company with 15 years with lawyers, tax advisors and managers. Everything on our payroll. But that was a good thing. We hate superiors
Bill, you couldn’t fall in love since you were 14. Also, because you have a problem with it to trust people. How much do you miss this love?
Bill: I lack, in this fast life, the constancy. I’ve always longed to have someone who’s just there. Of course I have Tom. I’m incredibly glad that we are brothers. As a solo artist, I could not work.
Why you moved to Los Angeles and not somewhere else?
Tom: We have not gone there in order to live a glamorous life. We have there our studios, were able to withdraw privately.
Bill: Our life is more free than ever! We especially enjoy the work on our new album, we’re working on it every day.
How long will you live in the U.S.?
Tom: We are quickly bored. It may be that in a few months we come back to Germany.
Translation by: BTK Twins Archive
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