Bill Kaulitz gives special insights into his youth

A special kind of home game: Tokyo Hotel front man Bill Kaulitz (35) adorns the cover of the July/August edition. For the title shooting, the musician returned to the place where everything began: his home Loitsche in Saxony-Anhalt. Bill was photographed in designer pieces in the middle of the landscape of the village, with a view of the “Kalimandscharo”, the White Salzberg of the nearby mine. The result: a fascinating contrast between glamor and province, which was already present in Bill’s youth.

Gives Bill’s best friend Andreas Gühne, who has known him and twin brother Tom since school. Together they not only experienced the challenges of growing up in one place with fewer than 1000 souls, but also the comet -like rise of Tokio Hotel.

Among other things, Gühne describes how Bill already seemed that he was immediately fascinated by his extroverted look and an extraordinary charisma: “I remember the day I saw Bill for the first time. I noticed his smile!”

The text makes it clear that Bill and twin brother Tom did not simply provoke with their music, but with their mere existence. In a place where conformity was part of survival, they wore eyeliner and rivet belt. The brothers were known for their rebellious species early on. With the success of Tokio Hotel, everything changed – not only for Bill and Tom, but also for their environment. When her song “Through the Monsun” became megahit overnight in 2005, everyday school life was no longer possible: “Already on the second day of school, the school management of the hype was too much, and Bill and Tom were freed from lessons for one year,” recalls Andreas Gühne.

A lot had changed for himself too: suddenly his best friend was one of the most famous teenagers in the country. Nevertheless, the contact never broke off, not even when the Kaulitz brothers moved to Los Angeles. Gühne describes the time before the move: “These dark sides of the fame that Bill and Tom have lived through there, the constant observation by the public, were often very overwhelming for them.”

The everyday life of the brothers was determined by fans. “They felt locked up. The saying with the bird in the golden cage was its reality. They longed for freedom and anonymity, did not want this siege.” The move to LA was the beginning of a new phase – not only spatial, but personally: “Bill has changed a lot there, and for the absolutely positive,” says Gühne. “I saw how he grew and how good it is to be able to be himself now.”