Kraftwerk Cofounder: Auto-Gone

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  01.08.09 | 10:34 AM ET

The Telegraph is reporting that band co-founder (and Krautrock pioneer) Florian Schneider has left Kraftwerk after four decades. It’s just the excuse we need to cue up the band’s 1974 hit song “Autobahn,” which is meant to re-create the experience of highway driving:


Eva Holland is a contributor to the World Hum blog. She is also a contributing editor at the Matador Network and at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen. Based in Ottawa, Canada, she loves to write about travel, history, sports, and culture high or low.


1 Comment for Kraftwerk Cofounder: Auto-Gone

Jenna Schnuer 01.08.09 | 2:11 PM ET

I don’t know whether I should mourn the end or celebrate how long they lasted. Both, I guess. Either which way, after listening to Autobahn (it had been too long!), I do indeed want to head out on the highway (or get on a train—it feels like train travel, too).

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