{"id":2283,"date":"2011-07-14T15:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:27:52","slug":"german-music-rio-reiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-music-rio-reiser\/","title":{"rendered":"German music: Rio Reiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some weeks ago when I introduced Herbert Gr\u00f6nemeyer to you, there was a big respond to it. Many of you wanted to know more about German musicians or bands. I guess you thought about the contemporary ones not about classic \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to do a little series of portraits from time to time. So here is the next one: <strong>Rio Reiser<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Reiser was geboren (born) 1950 in Berlin and was a German singer, musician, Komponist (composer) and Schauspieler (actor.) His real name was Ralph Christian M\u00f6bius. From 1970 to 1985 he was the singer and songwriter of the band Ton Steine Scherben. Because of the left oriented political Texte (lyrics), the band got famous with their first self-published records. But after a while Ton Steine Scherben recocnized that they were more and more used as a political instrument. That\u00b4s why they decided to change their style and write about personal things and melancholic issues.<\/p>\n<p>In 1985, after a bad planned tour the band was in dept with about 300.000 DM. That\u00b4s why they decided to split.<\/p>\n<p>After this, Rio Reiser started his solo career. His first record beinhaltete (contained) the songs \u201eK\u00f6nig von Deutschland\u201c and \u201eJunimond\u201c and was so successful\u00a0 that he was free of dept after a short time.<\/p>\n<p>His success continued. Over the years he worked with a lot of other famous artists, wrote soundtracks and even acted in some movies. His work was honored with lots of awards. The following studio albums of Rio Reiser were ver\u00f6ffentlicht (published):<\/p>\n<p>1986: Rio I.<br \/>\n1987: Blinder Passagier<br \/>\n1990: ***<br \/>\n1991: Durch die Wand<br \/>\n1993: \u00dcber Alles<br \/>\n1995: Himmel und H\u00f6lle<\/p>\n<p>The fans of the former band Ton Steine Scherben often critisized his new career being a beneficiary of the \u201eNeue Deutsche Welle\u201c which was a musical movement in Germany during the 1980&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996 Rio Reiser died at the age of 46 years. The reason was innere Blutungen (internal bleeding). He was begraben (burried) on his own property. But later, when the property has been sold, he was moved to another grave in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00b4s the lyrics for the song \u201eK\u00f6nig von Deutschland\u201c which seems to be the most famous one (though I think there are a lot of songs that are way better). Try to translate or understand it on your own:<\/p>\n<p><em>Jede Nacht um halb eins wenn das Fernsehn rauscht <\/em><br \/>\n<em>leg ich mich auf&#8217;s Bett und mal mir aus <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wie das w\u00e4re wenn ich nicht der w\u00e4re der ich bin <\/em><br \/>\n<em>sonder Kanzler Kaiser K\u00f6nig oder K\u00f6nigin <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich denk mir was der Kohl da kann das kann ich auch <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich w\u00fcrd Vivaldi h\u00f6rn tagein tagaus <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich k\u00e4m viel rum w\u00fcrd nach USA reisen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ronnie mal wie Waldi in die Waden bei\u00dfen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r <\/em><br \/>\n<em>das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ich w\u00fcrd die Krone t\u00e4glich wechseln w\u00fcrde zweimal baden <\/em><br \/>\n<em>die Lottozahlen eine Woche vorher sagen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>bei der Bundeswehr g\u00e4b es nur noch Hitparaden <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich w\u00fcrd jeden Tag im Jahr Geburtstag haben <\/em><br \/>\n<em>im Fernsehn g\u00e4b es nur noch ein Programm <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Robert Lempke vierundzwanzig Stunden lang <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich h\u00e4tte zweihundert Schl\u00f6sser und w\u00e4r nie mehr pleite <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich w\u00e4r Rio der Erste Sissy die Zweite<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r <\/em><br \/>\n<em>das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Die Socken und die Autos d\u00fcrften nicht mehr stinken <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich w\u00fcrd jeden Morgen erstmal ein Glas Schampus trinken <\/em><br \/>\n<em>ich w\u00e4r schicker als der Schmidt und dicker als der Strau\u00df <\/em><br \/>\n<em>und meine Platten k\u00e4men ganz gro\u00df raus <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Reinhard Mey w\u00e4re des K\u00f6nigs Barde <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Paola und Kurt Felix w\u00e4ren Schweizer Garde <\/em><br \/>\n<em>vorher w\u00fcrd ich gerne wissen ob sie Spa\u00df verstehn <\/em><br \/>\n<em>sie m\u00fcssten 48 Stunden ihre Show ansehn<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r <\/em><br \/>\n<em>das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Das alles und noch viel mehr w\u00fcrd ich machen <\/em><br \/>\n<em>wenn ich K\u00f6nig von Deutschland w\u00e4r<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>F\u00fcr immer und Dich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U3EtDdTwcl4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U3EtDdTwcl4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>K\u00f6nig von Deutschland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=On15CmMMMxk&#038;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=On15CmMMMxk&amp;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Junimond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rio Reiser  Junimond Seelebinder - Halle 1988 DDR Berlin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atx2PzF0uno?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some vocabulary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>geboren werden \u2013 to be born<br \/>\nder Komponist \u2013 composer<br \/>\nder Schauspieler \u2013 actor<br \/>\nder Text \u2013 Lyrics<br \/>\nSchulden haben \u2013 to be in dept<br \/>\nsich aufl\u00f6sen\/auseinandergehen \u2013 to split<br \/>\nbeinhalten \u2013 to contain<br \/>\nver\u00f6ffentlichen \u2013 to publish<br \/>\ndie inneren Blutungen \u2013 internal bleeding<br \/>\nbegraben \u2013 to bury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody&#8230; Some weeks ago when I introduced Herbert Gr\u00f6nemeyer to you, there was a big respond to it. 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