Mutter

Mutter may refer to:

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Mutter (song)

"Mutter" (German for mother) is a song by Rammstein on the album of the same name.

Overview

The song was confirmed by Till Lindemann and Richard Kruspe to be a reference to their unhappy childhood relationships with their own mothers. The lyrics tell the story of a child not born from a womb but in an experiment, thus having no true father or mother. The lyrics describe his plan to kill both the mother "who never gave birth to him" and himself, a plan which he proceeds to carry out. However, he still fails to kill himself, instead ending up mutilated and no better off than before. The child begs, possibly prays, for strength, but his dead mother does not answer. The narrative of the song is similar to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, in that the character takes revenge for his misfortunes on his 'parent', and then ends up no different from before the 'parent' died.

The video for Mutter follows the storyline of the song, whereby the character kills his mother and then dumps her body in a river, ending with the character in a cage or dungeon that is set into the ground.

Mutter (album)

Mutter (German for "mother") is the third album by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released on April 2, 2001 through Motor Music. The album's cover image is a photograph of a dead fetus, which was taken by Daniel & Geo Fuchs. Overall the album has spawned six singles which is, by far, the most amount of singles released from any Rammstein album.

Critical reception

In 2005, Mutter was ranked number 324 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Rammstein. 

There are various editions of Mutter, each with different features:

Mutter (surname)

Mutter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Mutter (software)

Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, and recently has evolved to be a Wayland compositor; it became the default window manager in GNOME 3, replacing Metacity, which uses GTK+ for rendering, while Mutter uses a graphics library called Clutter, and through it also supports OpenGL. The name is a portmanteau of Metacity Clutter.

Mutter can function as standalone window manager application for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell desktop, which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plugins and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plugin to Mutter. Gala, a core component of the Pantheon desktop environment, is built using libmutter. budgie-wm, the window manager used in the Budgie desktop environment, is another window manager built on libmutter.

Development

Adel Gadllah added support for HiDPI to version 3.13 of Mutter.

In version 3.13.2 logind integration replaced mutter-launch.