In the same year the group had their first live appearance at the Love and Peace Festival sponsored by Beate Uhse. In 1970 Reiser founded the band Ton Steine Scherben together with his friend RPS Lanrue as well as Kai Sichtermann and Wolfgang Seidel. There, on behalf of his brothers, he composed the songs for the "first beat opera in the world" - Robinson 2000, which, however, was not a commercial success. Reiser later broke off his training in the photo studio in Offenbach-Bieber to move to West Berlin. In the same year Reiser and Lanrue founded the rock band De Galaxis, in which they also played their own pieces from time to time. The band was called Beat Kings and mainly covered beat music. In January 1966, RPS Lanrue, who later became guitarist, composer and co-founder of Ton Steine Scherben, asked Rio Reiser if he would like to sing in his group. Reiser did not publicly discuss his relationships with men until the mid-1980s from 1986 he began to comment on them in interviews and talk shows. īy 1970 he had his coming-out and lived openly in his private circle of friends as a gay man. In his youth he was a huge fan of the Beatles and later the Rolling Stones. He changed his real name in reference to the main character of the psychological novel Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz in Rio Reiser.
He taught himself to play the cello, guitar and piano, as well as other instruments. Reiser dropped out of school at the Melanchthon Gymnasium in Nuremberg in order to do an apprenticeship in a photography studio in Offenbach-Bieber instead. Peter Möbius and Gert Möbius are brothers from Rio Reiser. Reiser reportedly failed to "feel at home in any of these places." In an interview that was only broadcast on Arte television in 1998 (after his death), some of his friends suggested that "Reiser began making music to compensate for this loss".
The family lived in West Berlin, Traunreut / Upper Bavaria, Nuremberg, Brühl near Mannheim, Fellbach- Schmiden and Rodgau / Nieder-Roden. His father was an engineer for cardboard packaging at Siemens AG, the family had to move several times as a result of his transfers. Berlin memorial plaque on the Tempelhofer Ufer 32 house in Berlin-Kreuzberg origin
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