Wolfgang Flür

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Wolfgang Flür as a guest on Deutschlandfunk, 1999

Wolfgang Flür (born July 17, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German musician. Flür was a musician and drummer for the electro pop group Kraftwerk (1973 to 1986).

Life

Wolfgang Flür completed an apprenticeship as a construction and equipment maker and studied interior design in Düsseldorf . Since his school days he had played as a drummer in various amateur bands, including together with Michael Rother at Spirits of Sound . 1973 Flür became a permanent member of Kraftwerk . At a Kraftwerk appearance on the ZDF broadcast Aspects in October 1973, he presented an electro-plate drum kit to the general public for the first time . He then played the electromechanical device on the Kraftwerk album Autobahn (Comet Melody 2).

The talents of Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider and von Flür came together to build the electroplate drum kit. Flür designed the hardware with his manual skills: He obtained celluloid disks from a plastics factory in Moers , coated the top of the wooden box with them and used Letraset letters to label the individual keys with the names of the assigned sounds. The sound-generating inner workings of this very early, possibly the first drum pad at all, consisted of the Farfisa Rhythm 10 rhythm box . Schneider's expertise was incorporated into the electrical connection between the individual pads and the actual sound generator. In 1977 the Kraftwerk founders Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter applied for a patent for the "ornamental design" of the device in the USA without informing Flür about it. This later led to several legal disputes.

After the publication of Electric Café in 1986, Flür left Kraftwerk . In 1993 he founded Jamo , renamed Yamo in 1996 . In 1997 Time Pie came out (with mouse-on-Mars musicians Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner ). The singles were Guiding Ray , Stereomatic and Musica Obscura .

Wolfgang Flür, 2008

In autumn 1999 Flür published his autobiography Kraftwerk - Ich war ein Roboter , the sale of which was shortly afterwards forbidden by a court order by his former colleagues Hütter, Schneider and Emil Schult . Several legal disputes led to an agreement in 2002: In 2004 the revised and expanded book with several chapters and a new title was published: I was a ROBOTER - Electric Drummer at Kraftwerk . In 2005 Flür I was A Robot , exclusively on vinyl; the title reached number 6 in the German club charts. In March 2005 Flür gave the laudation for Best Indie Act at the German Dance Award and presented the award to the Northern Lite group . At the same event, Flür publicly announced the auction of his electronic toy sticks and his red Kraftwerk robot shirt in favor of a children's charity.

In 2003 Wolfgang Flür began touring Germany with his program Yamo Spektakel . It is a mixture of reading, video projections and music performances by the dancer Cindy Gunawan.

On October 16, 2015 Wolfgang Flür released his first solo album under his own name: "Eloquence: Complete Works".

Solo releases

Singles

  • 1993: Jamo "Little Child"
  • 1997: Yamo "Stereomatic"
  • 1997: Yamo "Guiding Ray"
  • 1997: Yamo "Musica Obscura"
  • 2004: Yamo "I Was A Robot"

Albums

  • 1997: Yamo "Time Pie"
  • 2015: "Eloquence: Complete Works"

Books

  • 1999: "Kraftwerk - I was a robot" (Hannibal)
  • 2004: "I was a ROBOT - Electric Drummer at Kraftwerk" (vgs egmont)
  • 2009: "nothing else" ( Edition PaperONE , Leipzig)
  • 2011: "next to me" (Schardt Verlag, Oldenburg)

literature

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Flür  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ex-Kraftwerker releases first long player in 18 years: New album by Wolfgang Flür announced by Henning Kleine on www.depechemode.de (accessed on December 22, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Flür, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main