Rio Reiser

German musician and songwriter born January 9th, 1950 in Berlin; died August 20th, 1996 in Fresenhagen, Germany. He used this alias since the late 1960's, in his early career, he used his real name Ralph Möbius. In 1970 the famous band Ton Steine Scherben develloped from the theatre group Rote Steine, the first line-up being additionally R.P.S. Lanrue, Kai Sichtermann and Wolfgang Seidel.