Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Marius Müller-Westernhagen, 2014

Marius Müller-Westernhagen (* 6. December 1948 in Dusseldorf ), and later only Westlife , is a German rock - musicians and actors . With around 12.1 million records sold, he is one of the most successful German musicians. His father was the actor Hans Müller-Westernhagen .

life and career

family

Marius Müller-Westernhagen grew up with his two years older sister Christiane in the Heerdt district on the left bank of the Rhine . His father Hans was a member of the ensemble of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus at the time of the artistic director Gustaf Gründgens ; he died on December 18, 1963 at the age of 44. His mother was the employee Liselotte Müller-Westernhagen, who died in 1999. The difficult relationship between mother and son as well as the early loss of the father were repeatedly objects of his lyrics (as in Was Du… from the album In den Wahnsinn ). Reconciliation only came about in the 1990s. Liselotte Müller-Westernhagen can also be seen in the film No Time .

In 1988 Marius Müller-Westernhagen married the model Romney Williams from New York, who has a son Giulio from her first marriage. The couple separated in 2013. Müller-Westernhagen has a daughter Sarah (" Mimi "), a British model and singer in a rock band , from their previous relationship with actress and photographer Polly Eltes .

On his tour in 2016 Westernhagen was accompanied by the South African singer and new friend Lindiwe Suttle, who can be heard on the album Westernhagen MTV Unplugged , which was released in October 2016, in the song Luft um zu breatht . The couple married in July 2017 in Berlin.

The first artistic steps

Even before his father's death, 14-year-old Marius made his first appearance in the television film Die Höhere Schule nach Scholem Alejchem , directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth . The first fee was immediately invested in ice hockey equipment by the DEG fan. Marius Müller-Westernhagen decided to stay with the acting. In 1965 he took over the speaking role for the main character in the WDR radio play production of Wickie and the strong men .

In the second half of the 1960s, Müller-Westernhagen dedicated himself to music, taught himself to play the guitar and began classical vocal training. Vocally, he already achieved the " shouter quality " that became his vocal trademark and reminded of Steve Marriott from the then very popular band The Small Faces . In the Düsseldorf music scene, which was very lively at the time, he was already well known locally with his band Harakiri Whoom at the end of the 1960s . With the title At 18 , published in 1978, he addressed this musical youth (text line: “At 18 I ran around Düsseldorf - was a singer in a rock'n roll band”). A film was made with the name of the band in 1968, a political satire that became a scandal and was initially not broadcast. After Harakiri Whoom was dissolved, Müller-Westernhagen devoted himself to work as a theater actor, musician and journalist.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Müller-Westernhagen moved to Hamburg - Pöseldorf with his partner, the actress Katrin Schaake , who was 17 years his senior . He was often a guest in the artist shared apartment Villa Kunterbunt in Hamburg-Winterhude , where Otto Waalkes , Udo Lindenberg and Willem lived, among others . In 1972 he brought the song Gebt Bayern zurück an die Bayern on the market for the ZDF satellite broadcast Express, based on Paul McCartney's Give Ireland Back to the Irish . After massive protests, the single was taken off the market by the record company. He dubbed the leading actor in Roland Klick's film supermarket and contributed the piece Celebration for the soundtrack under the name Marius West. While working on the film, he met the producer Peter Hesslein .

In 1974 he signed a recording deal with Warner Music . His debut album The first time was by Peter Hesslein in October 1974 produced and released in early 1975th It was not commercially successful. In the same year, ARD broadcast a documentary about the young singer under the title It's me like you , in which Müller-Westernhagen and some people close to him, such as his mother and his partner, the presenter Reinhard Münchenhagen, had questions about his life and his Answer music.

The first major successes

Marius Müller-Westernhagen made his breakthrough as a film actor with the 1976 film Invitation to Dance as "Theo Gromberg". The story of the truck drivers Gromberg and Goldini (the Italian Goldini was played by the later Lindenstrasse actor Guido Gagliardi ) found its much more successful sequel in 1980 in the movie Theo against the rest of the world . This film, directed by Peter F. Bringmann , became the most successful film of the year and, with almost three million viewers, also one of the most commercially successful German post-war films ever. In the same year, Müller-Westernhagen received the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for his performance. At this time, Müller-Westernhagen was at the height of his acting fame.

In addition to music albums took Westlife, who several times for the young age radio as a radio speaker worked, recorded music with spoken texts on, even texts by Wolfgang Borchert , then the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf and The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant by Francis Poulenc .

After two more unsuccessful LPs, his musical career got off the ground with the 1978 album Mit Pfefferminz I'm your Prince . It was created in close cooperation with producer and bassist Lothar Meid , achieved high sales figures and has sold over 1.5 million times to date.

As a musician, he was increasingly noticed by often very provocative texts. According to Müller-Westernhagen's account, the song " Dicke" , intended to be socially critical , in which Westernhagen wanted to draw attention to discrimination and "hold up a mirror" to “the people” by chaining together insults, prejudices and clichés, was interpreted by many as if he wanted to Owning views and making fun of obese people that some radio stations wouldn't play it. In another title he addressed the hysteria around the RAF terrorists at the time ( greet me the comrades) . For a few years he was unable to continue the massive success of the peppermint album, although the follow-up LPs Sekt or Selters (1980) and Stinker (1981) were commercially successful.

In 1981 he recorded the theme song for the crime scene crime thriller “Grenzgänger” with Götz George ( Schimanski ) . I feel free here in the pub . At that time Müller-Westernhagen started very successful tours.

The 1980s: image change and experiments

Between 1982 and 1986 published five albums on which was partially experimenting with synthesizers and where Müller-Westernhagen and Mack the Knife of Brecht and Weill coverte (listen to the sun so red from 1984).

His most successful release during this time was the album Let Us Live (released 1985), a compilation of ballads from his LPs that had been released up until then.

During this time, Müller-Westernhagen was involved in the Ribbon for Africa project . He also completed quite successful tours to the albums. Here he earned the reputation of an excellent live artist. He also appeared several times at the Rock am Ring festival in the 1980s .

While filming the film Der Schneemann (director: Peter F. Bringmann), Müller-Westernhagen fell in love with the British actress Polly Eltes, with whom he had daughter Sarah, called Mimi, in 1985.

In 1988 he married the model Romney Williams, who brought a son from a previous relationship into the marriage and with whom he lived until the end of 2013.

The better private connection found its expression in his artistic work. He left his acting profession in 1987 after the Blumenberg production The Madonna-Mann and produced the album Westernhagen , with which he said goodbye to the image of the boyish mob “Marius” and now turned into the well-dressed, preppy and arrogant-looking “Westernhagen”, which led to irritation for many fans from the very beginning. He also erased “Müller” with a hyphen from his name with this album. The change of image earned him the reputation of an "Armani rocker" at times.

The album received a lot of attention and, in addition to the well-known songs Ganz und Absolut und Weißt Du dass ich wie I'm happy, contains the song Freiheit , which was inspired by the French Revolution and inadvertently became an anthem of German reunification in 1989.

The 1990s: back on the road to success

After the wedding with Romney Williams, the 13th and most successful album Halleluja was created in 1989 , which jumped from zero to number one on the music market hit parade. 50 sold-out concerts followed and one million records sold in just one year. In addition, Westernhagen appeared on the tour for the first time in the GDR . In the spring of 1990 a concert took place in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in East Berlin . The final concert of the tour took place in Gelsenkirchen Park Stadium instead.

In December 1990, the double album Westernhagen was released live , the recordings of which were made during the Hallelujah tour in Dortmund's Westfalenhallen . To date, more than 1.5 million units have been sold, for which it has been certified three times platinum . The accompanying live video was also a box-office hit.

In 1992 he recorded the album Jaja in the London Metropolis Studios, this time as producer alone . The tour for this album took him not only through the largest halls in Germany, but also - as the first German artist - through large soccer stadiums. A year later, Jaja was honored twice with platinum. In 1993, Westernhagen received three Echo awards (Artist of the Year , Music Video of the Year , Producer of the Year) , the Silver Screen Award for the music video War and the Bambi in the Pop category.

In 1994 the album Affentheater was released . It was produced in the UK, this time with Pete Wingfield as co-producer. There were 700,000 pre-orders for the album, and it went straight to number 1 on the bestseller parade. Although the media has meanwhile styled him as an “Armani rocker” and identified him as a millionaire, he was still considered a buddy by the fans . The tour for the album (monkey tour) led exclusively through stadiums. The fifteen concerts were recorded for the screen by the documentary filmmaker DA Pennebaker and his partner Chris Hegedus .

In contrast to the success of the tours, however , the tour film No Time flopped. Despite critical praise, the work was often removed from the programs after two weeks, given the empty cinemas.

In 1998 Radio Maria appeared with twelve new songs that were pre-produced in the Italian refuge of the Western Hagens. There a religious broadcaster sprinkled the prayers of the faithful into the studio system, hence the title.

This album also reached number 1, gold and platinum on delivery and subsequently a tour of superlatives that was to become a farewell tour. Developed by Westernhagen and an international team in one and a half years of preparation, a huge mobile monitor satellite was presented on which interpretive film material was shown especially for the songs, lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, a 570 ton stage with long catwalks and a sound system with 200,000 watts.

With the last concert of the tour in Hamburg in front of over 100,000 spectators, Müller-Westernhagen announced his preliminary farewell to the stadium stages. In an interview with Stern , Westernhagen stated that he could no longer identify with the "PR business" and that there would definitely be no more stadium tour.

In autumn 2000 the best-of-coupling So Far… appeared in a simple and an XL version - 18 and 29 titles respectively. This publication was also a great success.

The 2000s

Marius Müller-Westernhagen at the Berlinale 2010

For his social commitment Marius Müller-Westernhagen has been prepared by Federal President Johannes Rau , the Federal Cross of Merit awarded on bonds and on 4 April 2001 by the Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder handed over in the Imperial Hall of the Hamburg City Hall.

In September 2002, after a longer creative break, the album In den Wahnsinn , which was pre-produced in Hamburg and recorded in Italy, was released, on which hard rock songs with aggressive lyrics can be found. However, this album could not build on previous sales figures.

In the spring of 2005 the album Closeup was released , for the cover photo of which Karl Lagerfeld was responsible. The songs on this album are kept calm, the lyrics are more thoughtful. As with In den Wahnsinn , the sales figures for Close-up also lag behind previous successes. It only achieved simple gold status for 100,000 copies sold.

Müller-Westernhagen took this album as an opportunity to celebrate his comeback on stage in late summer 2005. Compared to his last tours, this time he didn't play in stadiums, but in halls. On this tour he worked again with proven companions, such as the guitarist Jay Stapley and the keyboardist Helmut Zerlett .

Despite the resentment expressed in numerous Internet forums in advance about the high ticket prices (including fees on average around 70 euros for standing tickets), more than 250,000 viewers saw the concerts of the close-up tour, which was almost sold out .

In 2005, Müller-Westernhagen advertised coal mining in a poster and advertising campaign for Deutsche Steinkohle AG .

In autumn 2006 the corresponding live DVD was released, When the light falls on you , which later received a gold award. The DVD was released by Edel Music for the first time after Müller-Westernhagen's contract with his old Warner label had expired after 32 years of collaboration and was not extended by mutual request. A limited so-called earBOOK edition was published under the same title, comprising two CDs, two DVDs and a large-format book.

Marius Müller-Westernhagen at the Berlinale 2008

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Westernhagen gave a big anniversary concert in the KölnArena on December 18, 2008 under the motto Let's live, let's love, let's celebrate . An additional concert took place the following day at the same location, two more followed in Hamburg and Berlin.

From 2009 on

On October 23, 2009, after more than four years, an album with new pieces was released with Williamsburg , with which Westernhagen tied to its blues roots. He recorded it at the beginning of 2009 in the New York district of the same name with well-known American musicians - for example Larry Campbell , Peter Stroud (guitar) or Andy Newmark and Shawn Pelton (drums). He released the album on his own, without a record company. The work entered the charts at number 2.

In October 2010 he started a tour consisting of ten concerts in Mannheim. His backing band consisted of Brad Rice (guitar), John Conte (bass), Aaron Comess (drums), Markus Wienstroer (guitar, violin), Alan Clark (keyboard, Hammond organ), Frank Mead (saxophone, harmonica, percussion, flute), Della Miles (background vocals) and the background singer Ron Jackson. The tickets for the individual concerts cost up to 95 euros. Advance sales were correspondingly slow. Some concerts were only 70% full, while others were sold out. The final concert of the tour took place on October 25, 2010 in the O ₂ World Hamburg .

In autumn 2011, Westernhagen released a live album for the 2010 tour, Hottentot Music, which was very popular with music critics. From September 11, 2012 a tour consisting of nine concerts took place, which took the artist to Austria and Switzerland for the first time.

On April 25, 2014, Westernhagen released a studio album called Alphatier for the first time in four years , which he presented on a small club tour before it was released. In 2015 a tour through the large halls of Germany followed.

In 2016 Westernhagen celebrates its 50th anniversary as a musician. On October 28, 2016, Westernhagen released an MTV Unplugged concert . The performance took place on the Berliner Volksbühne with other guest musicians such as Udo Lindenberg . The live video was directed by Fatih Akin .

In the course of the anti-Semitism debate about the 2018 Echo Awards , Westernhagen announced that it would return the seven Echoes it had previously acquired in protest.

In November 2019 he released his album Das Pfefferminz-Experiment (Woodstock Recordings Vol. 1).

Discography

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Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1975	The first time Warner Music	DE- gold DE	-	-	First published: 1975 Sales: + 250,000
1976	Bittersweet Warner Music	-	-	-	First published: January 16, 1976
1977	I can't do it all by myself Warner Music	-	-	-	First published: June 20, 1977
1978	With peppermint I'm your Prince Warner Music	DE19th × 2 Double platinum (41 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: October 30, 1978 Sales: + 1,000,000
1980	Sparkling wine or seltzer Warner Music	DE22nd gold (35 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: February 29, 1980 Sales: + 250,000
1981	Stinker Warner Music	DE5 platinum (51 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: April 2, 1981 Sales: + 500,000
1982	A boxer's heart Warner Music	DE11 gold (17 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: October 21, 1982 Sales: + 250,000
1983	Geiler is' schon Warner Music	DE41 gold (9 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: October 27, 1983 Sales: + 250,000
1984	The sun is so red Warner Music	DE40 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: November 29, 1984
1986	Lousy times Warner Music	DE18 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: February 21, 1986
1987	Westernhagen Warner Music	DE21st gold (45 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: September 25, 1987 Sales: + 250,000
1989	Hallelujah Warner Music	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (78 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: August 25, 1989 Sales: + 1,000,000
1992	Yes, Warner Music	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (49 weeks)DE	AT12 (4 weeks) AT	CH24 (9 weeks) CH	First published: March 19, 1992 Sales: + 1,000,000
1994	Warner Music Monkey Theater	DE1 × 7 Sevenfold gold (65 weeks)DE	AT9 gold (19 weeks)AT	CH21 (10 weeks) CH	First published: August 30, 1994 Sales: + 1,775,000
1998	Radio Maria Warner Music	DE1 × 5 Quintuple gold (65 weeks)DE	AT15th gold (9 weeks)AT	CH20 (14 weeks) CH	First published: August 17, 1998 Sales: + 1,275,000
2002	Into the madness Warner Music	DE1 × 3 Triple gold (14 weeks)DE	AT36 (3 weeks) AT	CH64 (3 weeks) CH	First published: November 4th, 2002 Sales: + 450,000
2005	Close up of Warner Music	DE1 gold (13 weeks)DE	AT31 (5 weeks) AT	CH40 (3 weeks) CH	First published: February 21, 2005 Sales: + 100,000
2009	Williamsburg Whagen	DE2 gold (24 weeks)DE	AT47 (1 week) AT	CH70 (1 week) CH	First published: October 23, 2009 Sales: + 100,000
2014	Alpha animal aerobatics	DE1 (10 weeks) DE	AT17 (1 week) AT	CH58 (1 week) CH	First published: April 25, 2014

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Filmography

As an actor

• 1962: The High School (Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth )
• 1964: Six people are looking for an author (Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz )
• 1965: Trilltrall and his brothers (TV film, director: Walter Davy )
• 1967: Easter (Director: Wilm ten Haaf )
• 1968: Harakiri Whoom (Director: Gerhard Schmidt )
• 1968: The Accident (Director: Peter Beauvais )
• 1970: Express (Director: Hansjürgen Hilgert )
• 1971: Hurray, we’re all about (Director: Wolfgang von Chmielewski )
• 1973: Love at 50 (TV film; Director: Günter Gräwert )
• 1973: Change in Milden (Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz )
• 1974: In camera (TV series, directed by Robert A. Stemmle )
• 1974: A German assassination attempt (Director: Günter Gräwert)
• 1975: Lost Life (Director: Ottokar Runze )
• 1976: Inspection Lauenstadt - The Compagnon (Director: Georg Tressler )
• 1976: Sladek or the Black Army (Director: Oswald Döpke )
• 1976: Tatort: ​​Transit into the Hereafter (TV series, director: Günter Gräwert)
• 1976: Rosaura came at ten (Director: Günter Gräwert)
• 1977: Invitation to dance (Director: Peter F. Bringmann )
• 1977: Klara's mother (Director: Tankred Dorst )
• 1978: The Old One: The Column (TV series, director: Günter Gräwert)
• 1978: The Assistant (Director: Ludwig Cremer )
• 1978: The second awakening of Christa Klages (Director: Margarethe von Trotta )
• 1979: I am dead (Director: Alexander von Eschwege )
• 1979: The Murderer (Director: Ottokar Runze)
• 1980: Theo against the rest of the world (Director: Peter F. Bringmann )
• 1980: Shared Joy (Director: Gabi Kubach)
• 1980: Mosch (Director: Tankred Dorst)
• 1982: The Man on the Wall (Director: Reinhard Hauff )
• 1983: Is what, Chancellor? (only co-production)
• 1984: The Snowman (Director: Peter F. Bringmann )
• 1987: Deshima (Director: Beat Kuert )
• 1987: The Madonna Man (Director: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg )

As a voice actor

• German dubbing voice of Charly Wierzejewski as Willi in supermarket (1974)
• German dubbing voice of Roman Polański as Trelkovsky in Der Mieter (1976)

Awards (selection)

• twice the golden tuning fork from Springer Verlag
• since 1978: numerous gold and platinum records , the first for With peppermint I'm your prince
• 1980: Ernst Lubitsch Prize for his acting performance in Theo against the rest of the world
• 1981: Jupiter (Category: Best Actor ) for Theo against the rest of the world
• 2001: Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2005: Munich Olympic Walk of Stars
• 2005: In September Westernhagen was awarded the A-Ward for his life's work at the SWR3 New Pop Festival .
• 2008: Presentation of the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in June
• 2009: Awarded the Quadriga on the Day of German Unity
• 2010: Video Champion - Music Award for Westernhagen - Between the Lines
• 2016: SWR3 Lifetime Award for life's work
• 2017: Honorary Award of the German Sustainability Award
• 2018: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)

literature

• Müller-Westernhagen, Marius. My heart, your blood. Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-88243-840-6 .
• Try to remember Marius Müller-Westernhagen in conversation with Manfred Bissinger . Photographs by Dieter Eikelpoth. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-88243-790-4 .
• When the light falls on you Westernhagen in concert 2005. Edel-Records, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-940004-45-1 .

Web links

Commons : Marius Müller-Westernhagen  - Collection of images

• Official website
• Literature by and about Marius Müller-Westernhagen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marius Müller-Westernhagen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marius Müller-Westernhagen at laut.de.
• Müller-Westernhagen ( Memento from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), German Rock e. V.
• Marius Müller-Westernhagen on his 60th birthday . ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Park Avenue , Issue 12, 2008, Interview: “On the occasion of his 60th birthday on December 6th, we read him the complete entry in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about him and asked : Myth or Truth? Honestly now ... "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grönemeyer has most of them . In: Badische Zeitung , July 3, 2010. Accessed March 23, 2014.
2. ↑ Awards for music sales: DE AT
3. ^ Separation in the Westernhagen house . In: Süddeutsche.de , March 23, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
4. ↑ Markus Hesselmann: In their area . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 14, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
5. ↑ Tour 2016 with partner Lindive Suttle
6. ↑ http://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_81711184/heimliche-hochzeit-bei-marius-mueller-westernhagen.html
7. ^ Wickie and the Strong Men , MCDP International Publishing, October 14, 2008; accessed January 4, 2015.
8. ↑ Jürn Kruse: Marius Müller-Westernhagen turns 70: We have not built a memorial for him . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 6, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
9. ↑ CINEMA online: Ten facts about Marius Müller-Westernhagen. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Hannes Rossacher (director): The best in the west. Marius Müller-Westernhagen . Documentation, 2008, 45 min., Production: WDR , first broadcast on November 21, 2008.
11. ^ Günter Fink: Otto - the walking East Frisian joke is sixty . In: Die Welt , July 12, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
12. ↑ Christopher Chirvi: Günter Fink on Otto's 70th birthday: In a shared apartment with Waalkes, Lindenberg and Westernhagen. Retrieved April 25, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Peppermint unplugged ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Marius Müller-Westernhagen visits the MDR Kultur-Café on mdr.de, November 7, 2016, accessed on April 16, 2017 
14. ↑ Ingolf Rosendahl: Westernhagen: "I wanted to go back to music" , interview in the Hannoversche Allgemeine on haz.de, September 21, 2012, accessed on April 16, 2017
15. ↑ Joachim Schmitz: Marius Müller-Westernhagen no longer plays "Fat" , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (noz.de), June 27, 2015, accessed on April 16, 2017
16. ^ ^{A b} Steve Lake: Marius Müller-Westernhagen , musikexpress, October 2, 1981
17. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Borcholte: An Order for the Adapted , Spiegel-Online, April 3, 2001, accessed on April 16, 2017
18. ↑ Vom Pfefferminzprinz zum Armani-Rocker , ndr.de, April 5, 2017, accessed on April 17, 2017
19. ↑ Dorit Koch ( dpa ): Vom Kumpel zum Armani-Rocker , Mittelbayerische.de, December 3, 2013, accessed on April 17, 2017
20. ↑ Eric Pfeil: Who exactly do these people love? faz.de, September 16, 2012, accessed on April 17, 2017
21. ↑ Rudi Novotny: “Don't want to swap with national players” , interview in Frankfurter Rundschau , October 11, 2013, accessed on April 17, 2017
22. ^ Westernhagen - Freedom is the only thing that matters , rbb / ARD , November 24, 2016, accessed April 17, 2017
23. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for the German rocker. From: laut.de , April 3, 2001, accessed April 15, 2017
24. ↑ Miriam Bunjes: State subsidizes Marius. In: taz , August 6, 2005
25. ↑ Marius Müller-Westernhagen on tour in September 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 2, 2017 
26. ↑ Akin filmed concert by Westernhagen , NDR , November 7, 2016, accessed on November 9, 2016
27. ↑ “The Peppermint Experiment”: Westernhagen releases new album and video for “With peppermint I'm your prince”. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
28. ↑ synchronous card index .
29. ↑ SWR3 Lifetime Award 2016