Martin von Haselberg

Personal context

Summary

Martin von Haselberg is an artist and actor best known as one half of the performance duo The Kipper Kids, whose deliberately disruptive, comic shows played with social rituals and the construction of persona. He later made photographic sculptures and appeared in film and television, including Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue. He has been married to Bette Midler since 1984. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or activism are on record.