Ralf Hütter

Ralf Hütter

Born: August 20, 1946
in 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.

Movies for Ralf Hütter...

Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
Title: Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
Character: Self - Musician (archive footage)
Released: February 15, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Jazzopen Stuttgart 2018
Title: Jazzopen Stuttgart 2018
Character: Self
Released: August 18, 2018
Type: Movie
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Kraftwerk: Pop Art
Title: Kraftwerk: Pop Art
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
Title: Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
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Kraftwerk - Live at Chacara do Jockey, Sao Paolo
Title: Kraftwerk - Live at Chacara do Jockey, Sao Paolo
Released: March 22, 2009
Type: Movie
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Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum
Title: Kraftwerk: Minimum-Maximum
Character: Self
Released: December 2, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Kraftwerk - 0100-013-0-2005-0100
Title: Kraftwerk - 0100-013-0-2005-0100
Character: Self
Released: July 1, 2005
Type: Movie
-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
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Title: Neues vom Süderhof
Character: Lutz Degner
Released: December 31, 1991
Type: TV
Neues vom Süderhof is a German television series.
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Title: Na sowas!
Character: Self - Kraftwerk
Released: March 29, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self - Kraftwerk
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
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.
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Kraftwerk - Live in Soest
Title: Kraftwerk - Live in Soest
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Die ZDF-Hitparade
Character: Self
Released: January 18, 1969
Type: TV
The ZDF-Hitparade, or Hitparade for short, by German TV channel ZDF, was one of the most popular and most well-known music television series presenting mostly German Schlager.