Editing Rammstein (section)

===Placement on the ''Index''===
On 5 November 2009, their sixth studio album ''[[Liebe ist für alle da]]'' was placed on the ''Index'' of the [[Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons]] (''Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien'', or ''BPjM''), making it illegal in Germany to make the album accessible to minors or display it where it can be seen by people underage, effectively banning it from stores.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/Rammstein/|title=Rammstein|website=www.facebook.com|access-date=7 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=1693 |title=Report |publisher=Schnittberichte.com}}</ref> According to the official statement of the BPjM, the depiction of lead guitarist Richard Kruspe holding a woman wearing only a mask over his knee and lifting his hand to strike her behind has given cause for offense, as well as the lyrics to "Ich tu dir weh" (meaning "I hurt you") which supposedly promoted dangerous [[BDSM]] techniques. Furthermore, the advisory board took into consideration the alleged promotion of unprotected sexual intercourse in the lyrics to "Pussy".

The band, as well as several members of the German press, reacted with astonishment to the decision. Keyboardist Christian Lorenz expressed surprise at the advisory board's "parochial sense of art" and regretted their apparent inability to detect irony.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/469/493812/text/ |title=Liebe ist nicht für alle da |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |access-date=12 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112125016/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/469/493812/text/ |archive-date=12 November 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laut.de/vorlaut/news/2009/11/11/23636/index.htm |title=Rammstein-Zensur: Mit Fleischgewehren auf Spatzen |publisher=Laut.de |access-date=8 September 2010|language=de}}</ref> On 16 November 2009, a stripped-down version of ''Liebe ist für alle da'' was released. As of 31 May 2010, the administrative court in Cologne had decided to suspend the inclusion into the ''Index'' (case 22 L 1899/09). The German department deleted the record from the ''Index'' on 1 June (Decision No. A 117/10). On 9 June, the band announced that the original version of the album was available in their shop and that the single "Ich tu dir weh" would soon be released in Germany. In October 2011, the album was judged not harmful to minors and deleted from the ''Index''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/urteil-zum-rammstein-album-liebe-ist-doch-fuer-alle-da-1.1172929 |title=Liebe ist doch für alle da |work=Süddeutsche Zeitung |date=25 October 2011 |access-date=29 July 2015}}</ref>

In 2016, Rammstein filed a lawsuit against the German state claiming €66,000 in compensation for damages that had allegedly resulted from the indexing, chiefly the destruction or withholding of 85,000 copies of the album that the band says would have otherwise sold.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rammstein sues Germany over indexed album |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=5 April 2016 |access-date=27 September 2016 |agency=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur|dpa]] |url=http://dw.com/p/1IPZl}}</ref>