Wolfgang Müller is a German

Germany

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 artist, musician and writer, based in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany and Reykjavík

Reykjavík

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, Iceland

Iceland

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Müller is the founder of the Berlin based multi-media performance art group Die Tödliche Doris

Die Tödliche Doris

Die Tödliche Doris was a German performance art and music group based in Berlin from 1980 to 1987. It was founded by band members Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen and later joined by Chris Dreier, Dagmar Dimitroff, Tabea Blumenschein and Käthe Kruse .Die Tödliche Doris was part of the...

 ('The Deadly Doris'). The group was active for seven years, between 1980 and 1987.

Müller published the book Geniale Dilletanten in 1982, naming a musical genre encompassing Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten is a German post-industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U...

, Malaria!, Frieder Butzmann and many others.

Müller's interest in Iceland and its culture has been documented in several art projects since 1988. He has participated in arts projects in both Germany and Iceland, addressing the Icelandic culture of elves, natural and supernatural phenomena. In 1998 he transferred the music of his first record with two sign language interpreters into signs and gestures and published it as a DVD, "Gehörlose Musik/Deaf Music" in 2006.

In 2003, Cologne

Cologne

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 based record label A-Musik

A-Musik

A-Musik is a record label for experimental music, a record distributor and a music store. A-Musik is based in Cologne and was founded by Georg Odijk in 1995. The A-Musik record label also runs sub-labels Fuji Rekodsu and Sieben....

 released Müller's album Mit Wittgenstein In Krisuvík - Zweiundzwanzig Elfensongs Für Island. In 2009, Müller published Séance Vocibus Avium, an audioplay with reconstructed sounds of extinct birds for which Müller was awarded the Karl Sczuka-Preis.

Séance Vocibus Avium was also released on record by Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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 based record label Fang Bomb. The record contained 11 bird calls, performed by artists wuch as Wolfgang Müller himself, Justus Köhncke

Justus Köhncke

Justus Köhncke is a german Techno producer and pop musician from Cologne.Köhncke was a member of the house trio Whirlpool Productions, along with Hans Nieswandt and Eric D. Clark. Together, they had a number one hit in Italy in 1997 with their house track From Disco To Disco. Since 1999, he has...

, Namosh

Namosh

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, Max Müller

Max Müller

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 and Annette Humpe

Annette Humpe

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. The record came with a 40 page catalog containing Müller's illustrations of the birds.

Partial discography

• Wolfgang Müller - BAT - Aus Der Schule Der Tödlichen Doris, LP, Die Tödliche Doris Schallplatten, 1989
• Wolfgang Müller - Mit Wittgenstein In Krisuvík - Zweiundzwanzig Elfensongs Für Island, CD/LP, A-Musik
  A-Musik
  A-Musik is a record label for experimental music, a record distributor and a music store. A-Musik is based in Cologne and was founded by Georg Odijk in 1995. The A-Musik record label also runs sub-labels Fuji Rekodsu and Sieben....
  
  , 2003
• Wolfgang Müller & Namosh
  Namosh
  Namosh or Namosh E. Arslan is a German singer, musician and performance-artist.- Life and work :...
  
  /Frieder Butzmann: 25 Jahre Geniale Diletanten, 7", Monitorpop Entertainment, 2006
• Die Tödliche Doris - Gehörlose Musik/Deaf Music, DVD, Monitorpop Entertainment, 2006
• Wolfgang Müller - Séance Vocibus Avium, 7"/CD with catalogue, Fang Bomb, 2009

Partial bibliography

• Geniale Dilletanten, Merve Verlag, 1982
• Die Tödliche Doris. KUNST/ART, Verlag Martin Schmitz, 1999
• Die Tödliche Doris. FILM/CINEMA, Verlag Martin Schmitz, 2003
• Neues von der Elfenfront. Die Wahrheit über Island, Suhrkamp, 2007
• Ästhetik der Präsenzen - Valeska Gert, Verlag Martin Schmitz, 2010.