Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Marius Hubertus Hans 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. 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" ) is widely considered as an anthem of the German Reunification. Since the late 1980s, he has also been known mononymously as Westernhagen.

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

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 2023: Westernhagen 75 - Best of 2024: Live Waldbühne Berlin

Selected filmography A Lost Life (1976), as Wenzel Sigorski Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee (1976, TV film), as Sladek Tatort: (1976, TV series episode), as Horst Bremer (1977, TV film), as Theo Gromberg The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978), as Werner Wiedemann (1979, TV film), as Stefan Schröder (1980), as Theo Gromberg (1980, TV film), as Arno (1982), as Arnulf Kabe (1985), as Dorn (1987), as Martin Graves Deshima (1987), as Patrick Goessler