Rio Reiser (9 January 1950 - 20 August 1996), was a German rock musician and singer of the famous rock group Ton Steine Scherben. He was born Ralph Christian Möbius in Berlin and died at the age of 46 in the little German town of Fresenhagen. Rio Reiser was politically active during his whole life. In the early 1970s he participated in the squatter scene, for which he wrote the famous Rauch-Haus-Song. Later he supported Die Grünen and later after the German reunification he joined the PDS.
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