Polo Hofer (16 March 1945 – 22 July 2017[2]) was a Swiss musician known for his work in the field of Swiss-German language pop and rock music. Hofer composed and sung in Swiss-German, and was one of the most popular protagonists of Swiss-German rock and pop music, so-called Mundartrock. Co-founding the then popular Swiss rock groups Rumpelstilz and Polo Hofer & die SchmetterBand, Hofer published 18 music albums and composed about 350 songs. Polo Hofer also published poems