Florian Schneider-Esleben, of Kraftwerk, Took Music to Uncharted Territory

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By Amanda PetrusichMay 6, 2020

The founding members of the band Kraftwerk including Florian SchneiderEsleben
It’s difficult to imagine whole genres of popular music—New Wave, techno, industrial, hip-hop—existing without Kraftwerk’s blueprint.Photograph by Caroline Coon / Camera Press / Redux

Florian Schneider-Esleben, one half of the German electronic band Kraftwerk, died from complications of cancer, a few days after his seventy-third birthday. Schneider-Esleben was famously enigmatic—obscure in a mischievous and impish way—and he had not performed live with Kraftwerk since 2006. (He left the band in 2008.) Until Sony Music, the band’s label, confirmed Schneider-Esleben’s death on Wednesday morning, many of his fans didn’t know he was sick at all.

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Amanda Petrusich is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of “Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records.”More:KraftwerkMusicObituariesGermanyVisionaries

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