Marius Müller-Westernhagen
# Marius Müller-Westernhagen

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. 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.

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

## Selected filmography

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