Beyond Heimatsehnsucht: Rammstein's Approach to Vergangenheitsbewältigung and German Identity.

This article explores how the most recent works of the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein express a Vergangenheitsbewältigung that is not limited to the history of the Nazi regime and divided Germany, but includes a much broader time and geographical frame that extends to Germany's present and future. In particular, the article argues that Rammstein's members confront their own Heimatsehnsucht, push for a new conceptualization of Germany, and forge an individual Germanness, rooted in their personal and political histories and expressed through their works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]