Personal Life
Blixa is a school dropout and he left his parents' home in the late 1970s. A 2008 documentary featured him visiting his mother and talking to her about his childhood and the relationship he had with his parents.
He had a short romance with Cinema of Transgression's Lung Leg, documented in Nick Zedd's Totem of the Depraved.
Blixa Bargeld is married to Erin Zhu, webmaster of http://neubauten.org. Together they developed the concept of web-based fan subscriptions as a new and innovative business model for the music industry. The couple is featured in the 2010 book Designing Media by design legend and IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge. Blixa and Erin are among 37 design and media luminaries highlighted in the book.
The couple resides in San Francisco, Beijing and Berlin with their daughter.
Blixa was a vegetarian for 30 years, breaking with this lifestyle due to the difficulties of eating vegetarian in China, where he lived with his wife.
He was also a smoker for a long time, but quit smoking in early 2000s. A sound of Blixa smoking a cigarette is a part of Einstürzende Neubauten's song "Silence Is Sexy" (2000), which could be heard both on studio album and live performances of 2000 world tour. During the Neubauten's 30th Anniversary Tour in 2010, Blixa smoked herbal cigarettes for the performances of this song.
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