Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Marius Müller-Westernhagen in February 2010

Marius Müller-Westernhagen (6 December 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.

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Selected filmography

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