@panzade,
panzade wrote:Does one have to listen to it in the sense of the death throes of the Weimar Republic and the ascendancy of the Nazi party?
Yes, that helps (especially with the German lyrics) but for me, at least, it's not strictly necessary. The music stands up on its own. If you hear in the lyrics, instead, urban
angst about the power of the underworld, that works, too.