Stadum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in

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Notable people

Rock musician

Rio Reiser Ralph Christian Möbius (9 January 1950 – 20 August 1996), known professionally as Rio Reiser, was a German musician and the singer of rock group Ton Steine Scherben. He supported squatting in the early 1970s and later the green political pa ...

and his band

Ton Steine Scherben Ton Steine Scherben () was one of the first and most influential German language rock bands of the 1970s and early 1980s. Well known for the highly political and emotional lyrics of vocalist Rio Reiser, they became a musical mouthpiece of ...

moved to a farmstead at Fresenhagen in Stadum in 1975. Reiser lived there until his death in 1996. He was also buried on the farm under a special permit provided by

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Heide Simonis.

References

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