Paul Landers Interview Archive and Translation Index
A chronological archive of Paul Landers interviews, transcripts, translations, magazine scans, fan chats, and quote source links.
I tried to prioritize English, but sometimes there are untranslated ones. Currently, it's my mission to translate them. Some of my own TLs are scattered to fill this gap. If you'd want to contribute your own TLs or missing interviews, you can get in touch with me. I host several non-Paul interviews in German in my gallery.
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Latest Updates
Last updated: April 19, 2026
- Sept 2004 Rock Inform
- March 1997 Rock Hard German transcript
- 2012 and 2018 Metal Hammer German transcripts
- 2005 October fanchats reformatted
- 1997 Visions reformatted
- 1998 Blue Jean reformatted
1990s interviews
1997
March
May
September
October
December
Unknown
- Visions (issue 59)
1998
February
April
- Mucke und Mehr
- Zillo (Russian. Missing German.)
June
September
- Blue Jean (Turkish publication)
October
- Family Values Tour*I was unable to determine the publication. This article is very high quality worthy of a major publication covering these bands.
November
- A comment about the FVT Halloween incident. Likely from the Fanarea.
December
1999
March/April
December
- official site fan questions *This was conducted in December 99 and published in five pieces in January 2000. Fans sent in questions. It wasn't January 2001 that's a typo.
2000s interviews
2001
January
March
- Metal-Is
- Tranceform
- Reforma
- Musik Express
- MTVla.com [Original version lost. Likely was Spanish.]
- Telehit
April
- Hammer (three parts)
- Zillo (DE)
- Kerrang
- World of Music (DE #1 / DE #2)
- Kulturnews
- Rock Hard
- Rolling Stone
- Circulo
- Visions
May
June
July
September
- Metal Hammer (Xmas edition, but the interview seems to be September)
- Kaos2000 *This interview is mistakenly attributed to Blistering.com. I found no evidence of this. Instead, it goes to Kaos2000.net and the archived link on their domain proves it. I have also found this interview accredited to musicweb.uk.net. This is wild.
- Rock Mag #13 [Unknown. Based on the text it's September.]
October
November
- 7 Days
- "Peer" #473
- Aif Young
- MTV Newsblock (Seems to be a text format of the interview of him and Schnei on the cream sofa.)
- Stockholm interview (Lost Swedish text. Looks like Flake and Paul speaking.)
- Playboy Poland *Listen, the interview never specifies. After closely looking at the wording, I am convinced some might be Paul often. The ideas are repeated concepts from his other Mutter interviews and sentiments. The mention of Pantera is dead giveaway it's him lmao.
December
Unknown
- MTV Masters (TV transcript)
- MTV In Touch (alt ver) (March, TV transcript)
- Guitar World
2002
January
February
June
September
November
- MTV.de (Two questions about the EMAs.)
- Record Raiders
- Ultra Radio *This article makes the mistake of mixing up Muse with The Prodigy in his dance music comment. The second Muse mention is accurate. (I listened to the mp3.) This text is more like a summary because there's a lot of untranslated German that was not covered properly by word. The English interpreter glazes over it, the fan transcribing had to do the same. I assume due to only knowing the EN/RU parts.
Unknown
2003
Unknown
- "Interview with Ricky" *Something leaked out of the old Fanarea. But locked in Russian TL. Ricky was a Fanarea member who won a trip to Berlin for this.
2004
April
June
July
- Fritz (Salzburg.com) (jpg)
- VolumeTV.at
- Kurier.at (jpg)
- EMP Katalog
August
- Zillo (partial)
September
October
November
Unknown
- Dante Bonutto interview *I suspect this is the actual interview from Blistering.com. Because Dante did another interview with Till and Flake that was published in the same 2004 range.
2005
January
February
- Rock Hard (This magazine is never listed properly. It's Rock Hard.)
- Leipziger Volkszeitung
March
April
July
September
October
- Soundi
- Kerrang
- Fanchat #1: reformatted
- Fanchat #2: DE = reformatted
- Motor.de (EN )*I think the TL needs work. Many TLs by "Richiebaby" are questionable and the fandom should not take those as gospel without the original DE text. She botched his words numerous times and left out crucial sentences. His political election metaphor makes no sense in her TL compared to the DE.
November
December
Unknown
- Stand Good (JP TV spoken in DE to EN)
- Metal Eagle
- Unknown Publication (How did this happen?)
2006
February
- Total Guitar (horrible interviewer)
March
- Popikoni (Wrong date stated. About Rosenrot which can't be from April 2005)
July
2007
May
October
2008
January
April
- I found that Paul left a comment to a fan IRL about the upcoming album. I love obscure niche things.
2009
August
September / October
November
December
Unknown
2010s interviews
2010
January
February
June
October
December
2011
May
2012
May
July
2013
July
- Ouest France (DE translation for us strugglers.)
2014
July
2016
June
2017
May
August
2018
September
October
November
- Gitarre & Bass (Nov in print. 2019 February in digital.)
December
2019
January
June
Known missing or partial interviews
- February 2005: Leipziger Volkszeitung interview at
http://www.lvz-online.de/lvz-heute/157863.html. I have only found a Russian translation. - August 2005: Ostsee Zeitung interview at
http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/ol/start_168346_1318740.html. Only a snippet has been found so far.
