Reiner Süß (2 February 1930 – 29 January 2015) was a German Kammersänger (bass), entertainer and politician (SPD).
Born in Chemnitz, Süß attended the St. Thomas School, Leipzig and studied singing with Hans Lissmann among others.
Süß made his stage debut in 1956 in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Theater [de] in Bernburg as Njegus in The Merry Widow.
Important roles were the Ochs auf Lerchenau in Der Rosenkavalier, Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Falstaff.
He became known to a wide audience as presenter of the GDR television programme Da liegt Musike drin, which was broadcast from 1968 to 1985.