How deep is Melanie Müller in the Nazi swamp? Did she even show the Hitler salute on stage? The investigative authorities in Leipzig are now also interested in this. Meanwhile, Müller’s former partner is “shocked” and doesn’t predict a good future for his ex.
The police in Leipzig are investigating against Ballermann singer Melanie Müller. “It’s about the suspicion of using license plates of unconstitutional organizations under paragraph 86a of the Criminal Code,” said a police spokeswoman. Such characteristics can be flags, badges, pieces of uniform, slogans and forms of greeting.
Specifically, it is about a video that was available to the “Bild” newspaper. It should show how the singer raises her right arm a few times during a performance in Leipzig in mid-September. It is assumed that she showed the so-called Hitler salute. “The video is now being evaluated intensively,” emphasized the police spokeswoman. She did not want to give any further details.
In an interview with RTL, Müller’s husband, Mike Blümer, also spoke for the first time. The two have been married since 2014 and together have a daughter born in 2017 and a son born in 2019. From the summer of 2021, however, there was a crisis in the marriage, and Müller then filed for divorce. Since then, a public war of roses has been raging between the two.
“I can’t believe the whole story. I’m shocked, at a loss, speechless. I no longer recognize the person Melli Müller, who is still my wife,” says Blümer in an exclusive RTL interview. His biggest concern is now the two children together. “In agreement with the youth welfare office and other institutions, I first took the children with me so that nothing strange would happen. We have joint custody and I also have a duty to look after them. And at the moment I’m not ready either to give her the children back,” says Blumer.
The children should be “kept out of all this stuff,” adds the father of two. “I’ve noticed that even friends of mine and myself are being bullied because of the videos on the street.”
With regard to his estranged wife, Blümer says she has not shown any “right-wing tendencies” in the past. “We even had a Colombian nanny before, we wanted to take her to a former concentration camp and explain the sad story behind it and the unspeakable suffering that happened there. That’s why the videos shock me immensely,” he continues.
Since the separation from him, Melanie Müller has also slipped into right-wing circles through her new partner Andreas Kunz, explains Blümer and adds: “I have warned her several times, but she is currently without a leader and we are seeing the result of it now. I hope that she eventually turns her brain back on.”
For Müller’s husband, the matter seems clear: “Her career is over for me. Very few people can probably cope with what she said. Every advertising partner, every organizer will give her a wide berth.”
Melanie Müller herself, on the other hand, recently clearly denied the allegations. Her movements during the performance in Leipzig had nothing to do with the Hitler salute. “I’ve been on stage for eleven years and always make these hand movements. Not from a right-wing extremist background, but ‘Zicke zacke zicke zacke’, exactly the way I do it there,” she explained.
In a statement on Instagram, she also asserted: “I have nothing to do with right-wing extremists or nationalist ideas. I condemn that in the strongest possible terms.”
The 34-year-old had previously distanced herself from right-wing extremist statements that could be heard in the audience on another video from the same performance. Several visitors chanted “Sieg Heil”. Müller insists that she ended her show because of the incidents. There should also be a video of this. So far, however, this has not appeared.
Born in 1988 in Oschatz, Saxony, Müller acted in several porn films in her early 20s under the pseudonym “Scarlet Young”. She became known to a wider public when she took part in the RTL show “Der Bachelor” as a candidate in 2013. In 2014 she moved to the jungle camp and was crowned the winner of the format there. Since then she has also made a name for herself as a singer of hits. In 2021 she successfully completed another reality TV appearance – she also left the “Celebrity Big Brother” container as the winner.