Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Müller-Westernhagen in 2014
Background information
Born (1948-12-06) 6 December 1948
Düsseldorf, Germany
GenresRock
Occupation(s)Singer, actor
Years active1970s–present
Websitewww.westernhagen.de

Marius Müller-Westernhagen (born 6 December 1948) is a German musician and actor. He has been a feature in German rock music since the mid-1970s.[1] Müller-Westernhagen is known for his energetic public concerts, and his fans know his anthem-like songs by heart. Though written a few years earlier, his song "Freiheit" ("Freedom"[2]) is widely considered as an anthem of the German Reunification.

While keeping away from the merely fashionable, Müller-Westernhagen has nevertheless managed to reinvent himself every few years, and is popular with multiple generations of Germans. As a result of his singing which almost exclusively in German language in a country where pop and rock are primarily performed in English, Westernhagen originally seemed destined for obscurity, but has managed to use this to his advantage, defining himself as a durable alternative to the perceivably manufactured English-language hits of the US and UK.

Müller-Westernhagen has also acted in films and in radio.

Discography

Müller-Westernhagen at the Berlin Film Festival 2010
  • 1975: Das erste Mal
  • 1976: Bittersüß
  • 1977: Ganz allein krieg ich's nicht hin
  • 1978: Mit Pfefferminz bin ich dein Prinz
  • 1980: Sekt oder Selters
  • 1981: Stinker
  • 1982: Das Herz eines Boxers
  • 1983: Geiler is' schon
  • 1984: Die Sonne so rot
  • 1985: Lass uns leben – 13 Balladen
  • 1986: Lausige Zeiten
  • 1987: Westernhagen
  • 1989: Halleluja
  • 1990: Live
  • 1992: Jaja
  • 1994: Affentheater
  • 1996: Keine Zeit (Soundtrack of the motion picture Keine Zeit)
  • 1998: Radio Maria
  • 2000: So weit ... – Best of
  • 2002: In den Wahnsinn
  • 2005: Nahaufnahme
  • 2009: Williamsburg
  • 2011: Hottentottenmusik (Live)
  • 2014: Alphatier
  • 2016: MTV Unplugged
  • 2019: Das Pfefferminz-Experiment
  • 2022: Das eine Leben

Selected filmography

  • A Lost Life (1976), as Wenzel Sigorski
  • Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee (1976, TV film), as Sladek
  • Tatort: Transit ins Jenseits (1976, TV series episode), as Horst Bremer
  • Invitation to the Dance (1977, TV film), as Theo Gromberg
  • The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978), as Werner Wiedemann
  • Der Tote bin ich (1979, TV film), as Stefan Schröder
  • Theo Against the Rest of the World (1980), as Theo Gromberg
  • Mosch (1980, TV film), as Arno
  • The Man on the Wall (1982), as Arnulf Kabe
  • The Snowman (1985), as Dorn
  • The Madonna Man (1987), as Martin Graves

References

  1. ↑ Menge, Timon (6 December 2018). "Marius Müller-Westernhagen: Ein Porträt". uDiscover (in German). uDiscover Music. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  2. ↑ Westernhagen. "Diskografie". Westernhagen (in German). Retrieved 2 April 2019.
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