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There is no source for information for Fritz Hilpert being a member from 1987. The last appearance of Wolfgang Flür in Kraftwerk is Telephone Call video in 1987. However according to Karl Bartos he was asked by Florian Schneider to perform with the band in 1990 in their Italian tour but declined. Fritz Hilpert became operator of Synclavier for Kling Klang Studio in January 1987 and in 1990 appeared onstage with the band first time. Flür had not been working in Kling Klang Studio after the band's world tour in 1981, but with Hütter, Shneider and Bartos also Joachim Dehmann worked there from around 1979 to 1989 as sound enginier and technician, and Henning Schmitz from 1986. So what I think it is a bit anachronist to list Hilpert as a member of the band straight from 1987 as Hütter and Schneider seems to have understood Flür as the band's live member still before 1990 tour and as Hilpert was not the only enginer in Kling Klang Studios. 87.95.45.202 (talk) 15:56, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm seeing that Carlinal added "use British English" to this article in September 2025. If this ever came to a vote, I would support the implementation of British English. However, there seems to be a strange coexistence of British and American English forms across the article currently. An obvious example would be "Kraftwerk have been recognized" (in the section Music and artistry): there is the plural verb for collective nouns as used in British English, followed by the "-ize" spelling used in American English (note that the template added says use British English, not use Oxford spelling). Could we please agree on an English variety for this article? Bizarre Bizarre^{Talk modern to me} 17:40, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I assumed German topics would/should be written under British English, including music artists. The American English writing does not surprise me given how late my addition of the Brit-Eng template was, it's a consequence of not defining a dialect early into an article's development. Better late than never, I guess. Carlinal (talk) 18:38, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, as they are European, we should go with Briteng throughout (non-Brit here). A mix can be jarring. Ceoil (talk) 17:57, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]