Vridolin “Vitti” Enxing joined Floh de Cologne in 1973 as a “revolutionary intern,” playing keyboard, cello, guitar, and bass and composing songs until the band broke up. He then worked as a freelance composer, and in 1998 founded the International Munich Art Lab (IMAL), where he served as artistic director until 2022.

01.01.2024

• Vridolin “Vitti” Enxing
• Dieter Klemm

Floh de Cologne: “I’d Rather Be a Communist Than a Stooge for the System”

Theatrical in their performances and Marxist in their politics, Floh de Cologne were one of the most remarkable bands to come out of West Germany’s Krautrock scene. The band tells Jacobin about their time as Europe’s only communist prog-rockers.