title: Marius Müller-Westernhagen
text: # 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
  