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Ralf Hütter

Born 1946-08-20 · Krefeld, Germany

Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946) is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969. On 12 May 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hütter was born on 20 August 1946 in Krefeld, Germany. In 2009 he lived near Düsseldorf. Hütter also has a daughter named Elsa who also produces music. He met Florian Schneider while studying improvisation at the Robert Schumann Hochschule. He is a vegetarian. Hütter is a secretive musician who avoids interviews. Hütter is an enthusiastic cycling fan, a fact reflected in some of the band's work. It was widely claimed that, when he was on tour, the group's bus would drop off Hütter 100 miles away from the next venue and he would cycle the rest of the way, a story that Hütter later confirmed. The band members took up cycling when recording the album The Man-Machine in the late 1970s. Ralf Hütter had been looking for a new form of exercise. The single "Tour de France" includes sounds that follow this theme, including bicycle chains, gear mechanisms and the breathing of the cyclist. At the time of the single's release Ralf Hütter tried to persuade the rest of the band that they should record a whole album based around cycling. At the time this did not happen, but the project eventually was released as Tour de France Soundtracks in 2003. Hütter was involved in a serious cycling accident in May or June 1982, during the initial period of recording for the 1986 album Electric Café. He was in a coma as a result. Karl Bartos claimed the first thing Hütter said when he awoke from his coma was "Where is my bicycle?", a story Hütter later disputed in a June 2009 interview in The Guardian. Source: Article "Ralf Hütter" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

7.0

-Kraftwerk:0100-013-0-2005-011(Tilburg NL 1 July 2005), VERY RARE! 2005 Extremely issue 18-trk live DVD on Crime Crow label, full digipack p/s(Crime Crow CCPDVD045) Original Shooting, Artwork & Authoring : Nafoute Audio : KZ "Stolen", reworked and reauthored by Crime Crow productions (bastards). Compared to my originals DVDs : - The colours are enhanced - The image has been slightly cropped - More contrast but less details - The Nafoute TV logo has been blurred away

Kraftwerk - 0100-013-0-2005-0100

2005

The 3D audio video documentation shows new recordings by Kraftwerk from 2012 to 2016 in breathtaking HD 3D visuals and state-of-the-art audio, including in the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Tate Modern London and of the New National Gallery Berlin. Worldwide there were fantastic reactions from audiences and critics and unanimous enthusiasm for the multimedia performances by Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert and Falk Grieffenhagen.

Kraftwerk: 3-D The Catalogue

2017

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films poster

6.0

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."

Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films

2017

7.5

Kraftwerk are one of the most influential bands in music history. Over the last two years, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz have toured the world, performing approximately 90 live shows that were unlike anything seen before, prompting global headlines such as this from the London Evening Standard: Is This The Greatest Show London Has Ever Seen? Said performance at London's Royal Festival Hall was also included in Time Out's recent list of best shows ever witnessed in the Capital.

Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum

2005

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This is the amazing story of how a group of reclusive Rhineland experimentalists became one of the most influential pop groups of all time - a celebration of the band featuring exclusive live tracks filmed at their Tate Modern shows in London (Feb 2013), interwoven with expert analysis, archive footage of the group, newsreel of the era and newly-shot cinematic evocations of their obsessions. With contributions from Derrick May, Holger Czukay, Francois Kevorkian, Neville Brody, Paul Morley, Peter Boettcher, Caroline Wood and more.

Kraftwerk: Pop Art

2013

In 1970, the year the band formed, Kraftwerk performed their first concert, appearing in Soest, West Germany, dressed in long hair and leather. The show was recorded by Rockpalast (Rock Palace), a German music television show that broadcast live on Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). The lineup included founding members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider (flute), plus drummer Klaus Dinger, who would soon leave to form NEU! with pianist Michael Rother.

Kraftwerk - Soest 1970

1970

Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World poster

7.0

The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical avant-garde, to the great post-industrial cities of the USA, where this genre of genres took over music stores, shady clubs and, eventually, the big stages.