Ralf Hütter
Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
Midi Première
The ZDF-Hitparade, or Hitparade for short was one of the most popular and most well-known music television series presenting mostly German Schlager.
Die ZDF-Hitparade
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Na sowas!
Neues vom Süderhof is a German television series.
Neues vom Süderhof
A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Radio On
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.
Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
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Jazzopen Stuttgart 2018
A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."
Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films
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
An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced specifically for video disk.
Autobahn
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
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
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Kraftwerk - Fuji Rock Festival 2024
Guitarist Rodolphe Burger and multi-instrumentalist Julien Perraudeau pay tribute to Kraftwerk by reinterpreting the entire album "Radio-Activity." A performance of the third kind, given before the audience of the C'est dans la vallée festival. Recorded on October 9 at the C'est dans la vallée festival in Sainte Marie aux Mines, Alsace.
Kraftwerk par Rodolphe Burger et Julien Perraudeau - C'est dans la vallée 2025
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Kraftwerk - Live at Chacara do Jockey, Sao Paolo
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
Guitarist Rodolphe Burger and multi-instrumentalist Julien Perraudeau pay tribute to the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk with a reinterpretation of their album Radio-Activity . A performance of the third kind, under the eyes of the visitors of the C'est dans la vallée festival.
Kraftwerk par Rodolphe Burger et Julien Perraudeau C'est dans la vallée 2025
-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