Marius Müller-Westernhagen

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Marius Müller-Westernhagen in February 2010

Marius Müller-Westernhagen (December 6, 1948 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actor and musician.

Possibly best known for the maudlin hit "Johnny Walker", Marius Müller-Westernhagen has been a feature in German rock music since the mid-1970s. Marius is known for his energetic public concerts, and his fans know his anthem-like songs by heart.

While keeping away from the merely fashionable, Marius 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 America and the UK.

Westernhagen remains little known outside the German-speaking countries.

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 zum Film Keine Zeit)
• 1998: Radio Maria
• 2000: So weit ... – Best of
• 2002: In den Wahnsinn
• 2005: Nahaufnahme
• 2009: Williamsburg
• 2011: Hottentottenmusik (Live)
• 2014: Alphatier

Selected filmography

• A Lost Life (Verlorenes Leben) (1976)
• de (1977, TV movie)
• The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) (1978)
• de (1980)
• de (1982)
• de (1984)
• Der Madonna-Mann (1987)

External links

• Official website
• Marius Müller-Westernhagen at the Internet Movie Database