Career
By the time East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) imploded in 1989, Feeling B had become one of the country"s most popular bands. Rompe made films, ran pirate radio stations, and squatted for long periods of his life. He also spent long periods of time camping on Hiddensee island, in the Baltic Sea, with his bandmates, playing gigs, selling drinks and organizing underground festivals.
He was of Swiss origin and died in Berlin in the year 2000 (aged 53), following a severe asthma attack.
Politics
Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rompe co-founded the political party Wydoks, which wanted to reclaim public property on former German Democratic Republic soil and fight against the takeover of the country by "money people," id est (that is) West Germans.
Views
Quotations:
"he knew how money was able to corrupt people, he didn"t want to be successful in a monetary sense either, neither of us wanted to, as we were all punks.".
Membership
He and like-minded members of the punk scene squatted several buildings in the East Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauerberg.
