Florian Schneider-Esleben

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Florian Schneider (born April 7, 1947 in Öhningen- Kattenhorn or in Düsseldorf ; † April 21, 2020 in Düsseldorf) was a German musician . Together with Ralf Hütter he founded the music group Organization in 1968 . The band Kraftwerk emerged from her in 1970 , and Schneider was part of it until 2009. At the beginning of his music career, Schneider called himself Schneider-Esleben ; after the release of the second Kraftwerk album, he no longer attached any importance to the use of the surname.

life and work

Schneider was the son of the architect Paul Schneider-Esleben and his wife Evamaria Schneider-Esleben. He studied flute for ten years at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf , then musicology in Cologne. He also played the violin and guitar, was a guest musician with Klaus Doldinger on the album Nero In South-America and was part of the band Pissoff with Eberhard Kranemann in 1967 .

At Kraftwerk , he first played the flute and also created an electronic flute. After the album Autobahn was released in 1974, the flute was no longer used. Florian Schneider worked with effects and perfected the artificial Robovox voices for which Kraftwerk is known. At the end of the 1980s, the first fully synthetic voice and the robots moving to music were developed in cooperation with the young Pforzheim company, Sculpture, electronic devices .

Schneider was considered to be the closed and reserved part of the Schneider / Hütter duo; His band colleague always gave interviews. In 1998, Schneider made an exception for Brazilian television and gave an interview on the occasion of Kraftwerk's appearance at the Electro Festival Tribal Gathering . In addition, he had a cameo appearance on VIVA Zwei in 2001 as the revolutionary “Don Schneider” in a fictitious interview with the VIVA presenter Ill-Young Kim .

In 1998 Schneider was appointed professor for media art and performance at the State University for Design Karlsruhe (HfG). According to a spokesman for the HfG, he never took up the professorship.

In 2008 he no longer performed live with Kraftwerk , and in early 2009 he finally announced that he was leaving the music group. His place on the stage was taken over by the long-time employee from Kraftwerk's own Kling Klang studio , Stefan Pfaffe (as "video operator"). Since then, Schneider has appeared more in public again, including at the 2009 Frankfurt Music Fair . In 2015, Schneider released the track Stop Plastic Pollution as part of the Parley for the Oceans project .

In 2014 Schneider was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as part of Kraftwerk .

Schneider died in April 2020 at the age of 73 after a brief period of cancer.

Trivia

The music title V-2 Schneider , produced by David Bowie with Tony Visconti in the Hansa-Studios in Berlin in the summer of 1977 , is dedicated to Schneider (as can be read in the booklet of the Bowie soundtrack CD Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo ) Bowie came to Berlin at the time, influenced by German groups like Kraftwerk and Can . At that time, Bowie also tried to work with Kraftwerk, but this was categorically rejected.

Florian Schneider appeared in 2001 as a double bass player in the film Class Reunion - Murder Case Among Friends .

literature

Web links

Commons : Florian Schneider-Esleben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser (Ed.): Contemporary composers in the German Composers' Association: a manual . German Composers Association, 1985, p. 650 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ↑ Heinz P. Hofmann: Rock: interpreters, authors, terms . Song of Time, 1983, p. 127 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  3. ↑ Christoph Dallach, DER SPIEGEL: On the death of Florian Schneider: Half essence, half Überding - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ georg.leyrer: Obituary for Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider: He was a robot. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Tobias Rüther, "The spirit of romanticism, the power of the socket, on the death of the revolutionary pop musician Florian Schneider, founder and director of Kraftwerk" , FAZ from May 20, 2020, page 9
  6. ↑ Youtube: Brazilian interview with Florian Schneider 1998
  7. ↑ Youtube: Ill Guevara & Don Schneider - VIVA Zwei Interview 2001
  8. ↑ a b c Pop - Kraftwerk: Florian Schneider-Esleben is dead. In: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ . Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 6, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Florian Schneider as a guest at the Frankfurt Music Fair 2009
  10. ↑ Kraftwerk's co-founder made this track to save the oceans
  11. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/kultur/kraftwerk-florian-schneider-esleben-gestorben-100.html , mdr.de, published and accessed on May 6, 2020.
  12. ^ Kraftwerk: Official statement on the death of Florian Schneider-Esleben. May 6, 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020 (German).
  13. ^ Obituary for Florian Schneider-Esleben: Drive, drive, drive - taz.de. Retrieved May 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider-Esleben, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Öhningen -Kattenhorn or Düsseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2020
Place of death Dusseldorf