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
German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...
.
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
("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...
: '' (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
References
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1948 births
Living people
Musicians from Düsseldorf
German male musicians
German male singers
German male film actors
20th-century German male actors
German male voice actors
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Echo (music award) winners
German male television actors
Marius
Male actors from Düsseldorf