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
 * 2023: Westernhagen 75 - Best of

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
 * Mosch (1980, TV film), as Arno
 *  (1982), as Arnulf Kabe
 *  (1985), as Dorn
 * The Madonna Man (1987), as Martin Graves