Rio Reiser: The Anarchist, the king of Germany was – THE WORLD

The King of Germany is dead. Long live his songs. Even 20 years later, they are still breathing in the journalists club of Axel Springer building a deep breath.

In a passage of a colleague from the Economics Department, not so long ago, they suddenly played at the end of the complete album “No power for nobody” the sound Beta Band of 1972. glasses were not going reportedly broken, some believed to see the Junimond about Kreuzberg through the windows on the 19th floor.

At the grave of Rio Reiser a bottle of Riesling

is One heard the revolutionary protest songs of a young Agitrocksängers, Member the famous chapel squatters who refused viewed the late sixties Formative student movement in Berlin, because he was afraid “to be overwhelmed by their lyrics and their self-confidence”, as he later recalled.

“That was me not obvious. Springer away. O. k.” Today Rio Reiser fell probably no more spikes from the crown, heard of anarchist Christ from the soundtrack of this party.

Photo: AP “loved and unforgotten” stands at the grave of Rio Reiser in Berlin

Behind the tree next to Rio Reiser grave stone someone discreetly deposited a Riesling bottle. 2011, the heart of stone from the North Frisian Fresenhagen – ie where the protest band from 1975 tried their peace they had lost in Berlin, regain – reburied at St. Matthew’s Cemetery in Schöneberg. To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of the monarch is intended from 14 o’clock with songs and reading of two broken-musicians and guests.

But the name not only with this soft drug alcohol made his Rio Reiser, who in 1970 “destroy what destroys you” sang, broken, as we know. On the consequences of liver cirrhosis, he died anyway at the tender age of 46 years. And perhaps on a hard dose Weltschmerz.

Why Ralph Möbius has only the artist surname Reiser missed by his brother Gert suggested to him? Reiser as Karl Philipp Moritz ‘unfinished, psychological novel “Anton Reiser,” wrote the late 18th century. The passion of a product originating in lower middle-class man who is drawn to the theater, which is struggling with feelings of inferiority and depression, and in a world of humiliation and hypocrisy breaks.

That being gay in the anarcho scene that engulfed the music of One Ton, as quite decadent was, the thing has not determined easily for the lanky, brash singing Rio Reiser made.

dying as the most beautiful trip ever

all this and much more can now through once again in “King of Germany”, its in KiWi reissued, written with Hannes Eyber autobiography.

Or in the memoirs of his brother Gert Möbius “maintenance log in your love fest” (construction), which is equipped with unpublished diary excerpts: the youth of native Berliner in Nuremberg and Rodgau, plays with his brothers in Berlin at the end of the sixties, the calcining utopias that Anfackeln of joints, the relationship with East Germany, the visits to the Paris bar and in the jungle, the entry into the PDS in 1990.

But as befits memories, you should not believe everything. Also Reiser believed only in that which he knew to verify. Why yes his song “Everything lie” that the AFD is probably not rob for their election campaign.

And so you stand as admirers of his art, in particular his sad-snotty ballads, before the grave and looks at three cute little crown. “Take for me a crown from which crushes me, take me away the crown, either take them back,” Reiser sang shortly before his death.

When we want to reach for a, we should remember a diary entry from 1973: “Last night I dreamed of Brian Jones, he was somehow beside me. , n body as ne fresh corpse, but somehow beautiful, I have spoken to him, and he said, dying was the best trip that he would have done so far. ” Besides Rio Reiser is still a grave space free.