I think it’s highly plausible [Blixa Bargeld and Wolfgang Müller] had a relationship. Those particular photos are incredibly intimate looking - x-rated compared to the chaste kisses he and Nick gave each other onstage. There’s that lovely quote from Bettina Köster when she was asked whether Malaria! were some kind of lesbian-agenda group - she’s just like ‘Back then it was not “this is my sexuality”, everybody did everything!’ Obviously Blixa has had documented relationships with women and is married and has a daughter, but I doubt that aligning himself with a specific sexuality was really that important to him in the 80s? He wore fetish gear and makeup every day, he was pretty and he knew it. So as far as I’m concerned, he and Wolfgang were an item!
I think it was brief and they were both on a lot of drugs, but it happened. People experiment. Even with culture today, I have friends who have been in a sole experiment same-sex relationship and don’t bring it up or like for anyone to know it happened. I’m sure that would go tenfold for somebody who’s not only a few generations older, but has some amount of fame and people interested in prying into their private life to turn it public where their family would eventually see it. Obviously… he tested out the waters and then decided it wasn’t for him.
In other words, cherry was good, but grape turned out to be favorite. But they’re both good. They’re both good.
Wolfgang Müller’s writings portray Blixa Bargeld as fairly involved in the gay scene — putting on exhibits at gay venues, bartending at former gay bars, the like — which I find really interesting, whether Blixa’s straight or bi. But none of Blixa’s interviewers have ever poked at that angle. Well, in general they tend to be more interested in the music, while Müller chronicles the people who made the music.
Anyhow, Müller wrote a whole book which I haven’t read (Geniale Dilletanten) chronicling the scene at the time, and Blixa wrote the forward and was apparently a large part of the subject matter, so I think that would be the definitive word on the topic. Everything I’ve read by Müller, EN-related or not, has been totally fascinating so I’m actually contemplating getting the book even though my German is shit.
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8:40 pm • 13 February 2012 • 157 notes • #unsure if this is shipping or a history lesson #blixa bargeld #wolfgang müller
