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New Museum of Madame Tussaud’s will be opened in Vienna

A new museum of the wax figures of Madame Tussaud’s prepares to accept visitors. Announced year ago, a European branch of famous museum would open in Vienna, and now the building almost is completed.

Visitors can see the wax images of people such as – Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yozef Haydn, Johann Strauss they will be nearby the singer from Tokio Hotel, and the actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Bill Kaulitz on the way to an Artist which can be taken seriously

Bill Kaulitz is a border crosser.  
The 21-year-old is a singer, model, advertising character and voice actor
and on his way to become a serious pop artist – but not everyone has noticed it yet.

They searched but didn’t recognize him, as he stood in front of them. In the year 2003 Sat 1 searched for a star, and met Bill Kaulitz. “Star Search” was the name of the Casting show. The 13-year-old Bill, his twin brother Tom and two friends “are making Independent-music according to their own statements”, Kai Pflaume explained back then, before Bill had entered the first TV stage of his life.

Breathlessly, the little boy with the Little-Vampire-hairstyle and black eyeliner around his eyes, sang the Weather Girls song “It’s raining men” and was fidgeting frenziedly with his arms. Afterwards he had to listen to amusements about his flamboyant outfit. He was doing it politely and charming and turned towards the jury with a gorgeous smile.

Hugo Egon Balder (judges panel) advised him to follow the comedy direction, because he said his voice is so “funny”. Only Jasmin Wagner (judges panel), formerly known as “Blümchen” saw his potential. “Congratulations to this performance”, she said obviously impressed: “You spare a record company a lot of work.” Image advisers, styling experts – with Bill there is no need for all that. “You already bring along all of these things.” She topped off with the sentence: “And I think if you continue, it can just go to the top.” Balder and the other jury members chose an 11-year-old rapper instead of Bill though.

The friends, with whom the Kaulitz-brothers had already made music back then, are called Georg and Gustav. Nowadays the band is known as Tokio Hotel among all girls in Germany, Spain, Mexico, France, Canada, Israel and soon also the USA. But Bill’s exceptional talent is still being unrecognized in a way. Maybe because of exactly those thousands and thousands of screaming girls.

Bill Kaulitz is a border crosser. He is a singer, model, advertising character and voice actor. With plenty of make up in his inconceivably pretty face, he overcomes the border between man and woman, which has an reflexive effect on the rumor that he’s homosexual. May he confess not being gay as often as he wants. The sexual ambiguity simply belongs to his image – what confuses much more is, that his identical twin Tom goes around dressed up as normal boy. But Bill Kaulitz reminds of David Bowie, who had established the game with the gender roles as Ziggy Stardust only in the early 70’s in the mainstream.

Nothing gets more punished among children than otherness. Obviously Bill has not cared about that all the while. Of course, he hated the school days in the 670-inhabitant-hicksville Loitsche. The reasons are obvious. How are pubescent most likely to react when seeing a guy with black dyed hair, whose hairstyle is as asymmetric as the style of his self-tailored pants? A rhetorical question. He’s still doing his own thing unwaveringly. At the age of 9, the twins sing at village fairs, at the age of 12 they get to know Georg and Gustav in a club in Magdeburg and found the band Devilish. One year later, after Bill’s performance at “Star Search”, the music producer Peter Hoffmann went to exactly this club to see the band perform.

“In microcosm there just happened exactly that thing, which is going on at today’s big concerts.”, he remembers: “Screaming girls in the front row, mashing boys behind.” Hoffmann invites them to his studio in Vögelsen in Lower Saxony, in the Lüneburg Heath. The boys get music- and singing lessons. Devilish becomes Tokio Hotel. They signed a contract with Sony BMG, but after half a year the record company got cold feet. The responsible manager dismisses the band. Sony BMG let slip a multi-million dollar business, the manager lost his job. Instead of them, Universal, Sony BMG’s strongest competitor, has one hit after another with the band. Three albums have been released so far. A few days ago, a Best-Of-double-album was released. A CD with the songs in German, a CD with the same songs in English. The big mistake that has settled in the heads of clueless adults is, that Tokio Hotel is a casted boy group. They have never been. Well, Bill and Tom already wanted to become rock stars when they were in second grade. But so the Rolling Stones had wanted, long before they actually became rock stars. The today 21-year-old Tokio Hotel frontman is more than just the head of an ageing teenager band with some pop ditties, that makes the masses scream. Kaulitz is one of those humans with unique charisma: androgynous, dramatic, glamorous. His band is getting less and less Nena, but more and more Nirvana.

A few weeks ago, arte helped to make people as from 30, that have no daughter who’s into Tokio Hotel, call attention to this young man. The culture channel showed an episode of its series “Durch die Nacht mit…”. In this episode Bill Kaulitz met Wolfgang Joop – and not only the fashion designer has been over the moon with Bill since then. But one could have already known this a long time before. But nobody, who’s not in love with one of the Kaulitz-twins or Georg or Gustav, comes up with the idea to watch videos on their homepage or to attend a Tokio Hotel concert. Otherwise much more people would have already noticed that the girls, who had thrown “Diddle”-mice or bras on stage in the past, simply recognized who stands in front of them: an extraordinary young man, who has got what it takes to become a world star.

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Smokey-eyed Bill vs. Glitter Glambert

Bill Kaulitz of Tokio Hotel and Adam Lambert have been lauded for their impeccable, and sometimes outrageous, sense of style. Regardless of the comments, they are always dressed to impress and are even considered style icons that push boundaries when it comes to male fashion. We know better for both Bill and Adam were both here and we saw fans ‘Scream’ for Bill and Adam’s fans act ‘Fever’-ish. Who would win male style icon? Vote now!

VOTE BILL !!!!

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(16.12.2010)

International Rock Sensation Tokio Hotel
Says ‘No’ To Circuses In New petaDishoom Ad

Mumbai – Twin brothers Bill and Tom Kaulitz of the award-winning rock band Tokio Hotel are targeting circuses that use animals in a provocative new campaign for petaDishoom, the youth outreach division of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India. In the ad, the vegetarian duo are shown shackled and chained in a grimy, bloodstained basement next to the words “Slaves of the Entertainment Industry: Get Wild Animals Out of the Circus!” The ad, which was shot by top German photographer Kai Stuht, contains English and Hindi text and comes on the heels of the Indian release of Tokio Hotel’s greatest hits album. The talented group’s records have gone platinum many times over, scored four number one singles and sold out arenas and stadiums. They also scored an MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 2008.

Just try to imagine those animals being kept this way their whole lives,” says Bill. “Circuses with animals must be banned. After all, there are plenty of exciting alternatives available!

Bill and Tom want people to know that animals in circuses are subjected to chronic confinement, physical abuse and psychological torment. They are trained under the threat of beatings and whippings and are forced to perform under duress and the fear of punishment. Circuses give audiences a distorted view of animals, who do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads or jump through rings of fire. In contrast to the glittery images associated with circuses, the lives of animals in circuses are miserable. Whips, ankushes and other tools are often used to inflict pain on animals and force them to perform. Even the animals’ access to water, food and veterinary care is often severely restricted.

Animals in Indian circuses are also kept in atrocious conditions. Dogs are crammed into dirty cages and rarely let out. Birds are confined to small cages and have their wings clipped so that they cannot fly. Horses are kept tethered on short ropes. Elephants are kept tied by three legs, and trainers regularly beat the animals into submission. Even though the government has banned the use of bears, monkeys, tigers, panthers and lions in performances, some of these animals continue to be illegally used in entertainment acts, including street performances.

Tokio Hotel is known internationally for a string of number one singles and has sold millions of albums worldwide. Bill and Tom, who recently moved from Germany to Los Angeles, join a growing list of celebrities – including Olivia Munn, Demi Moore, Rakhi Sawant and Shilpa Shetty – who have publicly condemned circuses that use animals.

For more information, please visit PETADishoom.com

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Tokio Hotel Says ‘No’ to Circuses

Although their popularity in India is just starting to grow, the members of the German rock band Tokio Hotel are already bona fide stars in many other parts of the world. The band has sold millions of albums worldwide, and with four number one singles and an MTV Video Music Award (VMA) for Best New Artist under their belt, they are all set to become the next superstars. Check out Tokio Hotel’s public service announcement to learn more, and then take our pledge to boycott circuses that use animals!

Speaking of the VMAs, Tokio Hotel first caught the attention of the staffers at our US affiliate peta2 after the band’s red-carpet arrival at the awards show back in 2008. The group of heartthrobs demanded attention by arriving at Hollywood’s Paramount Studios in the bed of a head-turning monster truck. It was a much-welcome alternative to T-Pain’s tasteless entrance, which the members of  Tokio Hotel were not pleased about. Of T-Pain’s arrival, the band’s lead vocalist, Bill Kaulitz, said, “It was sheer cruelty – it was that“. Tokio Hotel guitarist (and Bill’s brother) Tom Kaulitz added, “I hate zoos and circuses. People shouldn’t take their children to either one“.

‘PAIN’, how apropos

We couldn’t agree more. Animals in circuses are denied everything that is natural and important to them. Trainers often beat and intimidate animals into submission and obedience. Even the animals’ access to water, food and veterinary care is often severely limited. Animals are crammed into filthy cages and rarely see the sun or breathe fresh air.

Take a stand against this injustice
by sharing this information with your friends
and pledging never to attend circuses that use animals

Animals in circuses are forced to endure a life of misery – all for the sake of a few meaningless tricks. By signing my name, I pledge never to attend any circus that uses animals.

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