wow, i'm amazed! can't really believe it's wolfgang himself, thx a lot Klaus!

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  Richard Poolton <richardpoolton@uk.dmgworldmedia.com> wrote:

Thank you for bringing this Klaus. It is really fascinating.

-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Zaepke [mailto:k_z@gmx.de]
Sent: 02 May 2002 08:15
To: kraftwerk@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: [Kraftwerk] A message from Wolfgang Fluer



A few days ago I had an e-mail conversation with Wolfgang Fluer
about some of the recent threads on this mailing list concerning him.
As he wanted to comment on some of these mails, but didn't want to
expose his private e-mail address, he asked me to forward the
following message on his behalf.

Klaus Zaepke


------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht / Forwarded message -------

Dear Friends,

my name is wolfgang Fluer, ex-member of former Kraftwerk. Let me say
hello to everyone who contributes to this mailing list, which was
shown to me by Klaus Zaepke last week.

Fist let me say thank you to Klaus for giving me the opportunity
sending my greetings and words to this internet medium.

I wish to clear some vagueness which go through this list since
my book is out. I also wonder what you guys are discussing some times.
Aren't there other things in your lifes instead of discussing what
someone in Kraftwerk is probably drinking, for instance, or what it
has to mean, when we put flowers in our hair in the middle of the
seventies and took photos from us? What's so dammned gripping on
that? Kraftwerk members with naked upper bodies under a garden
shower, wouw! Have you never been in the swimming baths in hot summer
days? And what do you see there? Everyone could see us on the beaches
of St. Tropez ore elsewhere in those days.

It's at least what I'm talking about in my book - Kraftwerker as
humans. And that's what Ralf a. Florian obviously disliked. They
wanted to reserve their myth as robotic inhuman secret and hidden.

But I've changed since my departure and progress in Yamo. I wrote
my book in between three years, long after having split from KW. Of
course I was a real member for sixteen years - a physical AND menthal
member. All these stupid dealings of a poor Dirki boy ..."if someone
is mentally part of Kraftwerk, he is part of the group"...what a
shit! This man just wants to create some childish philosophical
sentences. He doesn't know anything of me, he was an device dealer -
nothing else - especially no natural scientist or psychologist. Don't
let you tell of this bullshit what this man pours over the pages. He
prevents especially that it was his partner Hans Joachim Wiechers who
did the elementary electronical developments for us, not Dirki! The
man seems to be a lonly hearted individual and in his special age and
wants to be important now with his former nearness to our band. See
how badly he needs to describe his deal with Kraftwerk and how
adjobtrusive he is. And what is most impertinent, he tells my a lyer.
This is unfair and not true! In my book I say the truth on every page
and this Dirki is completely wrong for instance when he claims that I
didn't play the electronic drums on 'Autobahn'. How can he claim
this, when he wasn't there that day? Besides of that I
recommend everyone to read his own homepage and discover what he
writes about his meeting with Conny Plank - former co-producer of
Ralf & Florian - and when he first listened to our song. Make your
own rhyme on it...

But he's right when he says that I was a robot (after all he lends
this sentense from my own book - my coming out as a human). Yes,
that's true, I was a robot and I'm glad to be no longer. In my book
I write exactly what at least lead to my refusal from this formerly
innovative band. All the happy years in the beginning, my upcoming
doubts after our Computerworld tour in 1981, up to my painful split.
If it was no pain for me than I agree with old Dirki, then I would
have been only a machine with no feeling for affection. Yes, I was
stupid (as robots usually are) to believe in Ralf & Florian, to trust
in them and their constant promises in music making, tour traveling,
being properly payed and being participated in our success. Atz
least (1986) there was no other chance for me to pave my own path,
understand? Today I am happy that I decided so and would never go
back. My nature and personality is better open now to human themes
and I'm not such an inhibited person like the robots which I've left
once.

As you know Ralf & Florian did a legal ban on my book here because
they didn't want to be shown under Florians garden shower with me.
By the way, these photos were taken by ourselves with Florians and my
own new Polaroid SX 70 cameras, which we bought during our first US
tour in 1975, and not by any female film-makers (I wonder who
developed such a rubbish).There were some other points which the both
didn't like to be published. And especially that I've invented and
built my first electric drum board. Can one imagine why they cannot
grudge this to me? The first lawsuit is over now and finally I've won
it. The judge believed in my and my lawyers evidences and now R&F
filed an appeal against this first judgement. We'll see what the
next step can bring...

Thanks by the way to Oh Jay for his understanding / partisanship and
defencing my point of view. He is right when he says that it was
EXPLOITATION for the reason why I've left Kraftwerk. Oh Jay looks
completely through, sorry, even if you guys don't like to heare it!

Photos which I'd done in the middle of the seventies were of course
not only for money, they were also for fun. You're right, Pat, when
you wrote "for beauty we'll pay". That was one of our great themes,
as everyone knows. That was our point of view in a city where the
beauties were running in the streets like insects. I was too - no
insect but beauty - and I loved to expose myself, not only on the
stage with Kraftwerk. What is so dammed unnatural on it? You in
U.S. seem to be especially inhibited there, aren't you? Anyway, I
loved myself, my body, my talents, the people and artists around me.
It was luck I had beside of my talents, nothing else.

Read properly 'Kraftwerk - I Was A Robot' between the lines and
discover it's honesty and my naturalness. For those, who cannot
handle it, I feel sorry. And who wishes to know more about what
electronic music can spread further after a Kraftwerk, should listen
to Yamo Pop. 'Time-Pie' for instance (USA: Hypnotic CLP 0119).
Delicious every minute! I wish everyone a pleasant time.

Sincerely yours,
Wolfgang.

------- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht / End of forwarded message
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