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Kaulitz, 31, is a fanatic of punctuality, and he appears 20 minutes before the agreed time for the SPIEGEL conversation in the garden shed at Ullstein Verlag in Berlin. He wears a black cloth mask, his hair short and bleached. It's mid-December, and a few weeks earlier Kaulitz had come to Germany from his adopted home USA, with his twin brother Tom and his wife Heidi Klum, who is in front of the camera in Berlin for her TV show "Germany's Next Top Model". Kaulitz says he's nervous; it is the first time he has spoken to journalists about his autobiography, which is due out in February. In it, Kaulitz tells of his career with the band Tokio Hotel, which began in 2005 with the hit "Durch den Monsun".
SPIEGEL:
Mr. Kaulitz, as a teenager you were a superstar.
You jetted around the world, champagne parties and luxury hotels were part of your everyday life, your entourage read your every wish from your lips.
When did you realize that you had lost control of your life?
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