Sturm & Drang

I'm pretty sure in this context the meaning of Sturm & Drang is "Storm & Stress." Sturm und Drang was a late 18th century writing movement, in essence a rebellion against the neoclassic/Frenchish style popular at the time. The themes of rebellion and deconstruction in the song fits well with the ideas of the literary movement.

Sturm & Drang is one of my favorite songs out of KMFDM's newest album, Attak. I'm surprized no one had already posted the lyrics up, but I guess it doesn't matter since they're up now :) If anyone's wondering, I have the translations to the German chorus and verse to this song (I was VERY bored at the time of deciding to translate the song). If anyone is really THAT desperate to know them, message me and I'll get them to you.

omg this song kicks ass I want to know the german in the song too

Ok, well, the German stuff in this song is roughly translated as follows:

Wiederaufbau und vernichtung (To rebuild and to annihilate) Wirklichkeit und heldendichtung (Reality and heroism) Edle wahrheit und legende (Noble and lengendary) KMFDM zum bitteren ende (KMFDM closes towards a bitter end)

And the chorus:

Sturm & drang* Dir gehoren (You belong to) Sturm & drang Kunst erleben (To experience the art of) Sturm & drang Neu und fremd (New and strange) Sturm & drang Mein KMFDM (My KMFDM)

(* Sturm & Drang - the world Sturm and the word Drang has a few translations and I'm not quite sure which ones Sascha is talking about. But the translations for Sturm are 'storm/assault/tempest/gale' and the translations for Drang are 'pressure/impulse'. All translations give me the same impression, but I'm not going to state which is and isn't the correct translation here :P )

By the way, I had to re-arrange some of the positioning of the words so that they'd make more sense. I'm not German, I never did German in high school or university, so the translations might be slightly off, but they should be mostly correct.

I'm thinking that the german probably goes more like this:

Rebuilding and destruction reality and heroic poetry Noble truth and legend KMFDM to the bitter end

belongs to you experience art ...

This song is awesome. It's even better live though. Definately their best song for moshing. I'm not personally a mosher myself but I almost wanted to jump in!

Here’s a more literal translation courtesy of google Sturm & drang Dir gehoren Sturm & drang

Storm & urge You heard Storm & urge

Feedback Swap to German Storm & urge You heard Storm & urge Experience art Storm & urge New and foreign Storm & urge My KMFDM Reconstruction and destruction Reality and heroic seal Noble truth and legend KMFDM to the bitter end