Ben Becker

Ben Becker (born 19 December 1964 in Bremen) is a German film and theatre actor.

Becker reads the Bible at Katholikentag in 2008, Osnabrück

Life and work

Becker is the son of actress Monika Hansen and actor Rolf Becker. He is the brother of actress Meret Becker and the stepson of Otto Sander. His grandmother was the comedian Claire Schlichting. Becker is Jewish through his maternal grandmother Claire Schlichting's father who was a Jewish merchant from Wuppertal.[1]

As a child, Becker participated in radio dramas and had several small roles in films. Between 1985 and 1987 he trained as an actor in the Berliner Schaubühne theatre. His first contract was with Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. Later he joined the Staatstheater Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Theatre), where he was mostly remembered for his role (1991–1992) as Ferdinand in Schiller's Intrigue and Love. Later, he worked with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, and played the role of Tybalt in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the Deutschen Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

His first memorable role in cinema was in 1991, in the film Das serbische Mädchen, where he played the role of the arrogant German boyfriend of the pregnant Serbian heroine. His big break was in 1995 as Peter, who fell in love with a man, in Joseph Vilsmaier's Schlafes Bruder. In the film Comedian Harmonists he played the singer Robert Biberti.

In 1995 he created his own production of Sid & Nancy with his sister Meret in the main role. In 1999 he played the main role in the Maxim-Gorki-Theater's production of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. In 2006 he played in the unique film, Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude, which consisted of a monologue.

Becker is also involved in music and owns a pub, the Trompete, in Berlin/Tiergarten. He has one daughter, Lilith (born in 2000).

In 2008 Becker worked with the German band Schiller (thus following in the footsteps of his stepfather Otto Sander), where Ben did spoken lyrics for the album Sehnsucht. One song is called "Nacht", a video of which can be seen on YouTube.[2] The lyrics[3] are a shortened version of a poem in German called Die Seele[4] that is attributed to Lord Byron. It appears to be a translation of the Byron poem, "When coldness wraps this suffering clay" s:When coldness wraps this suffering clay from the collection, Hebrew Melodies. The identity of the translator/author of Die Seele is unknown although the text may be from "Lord Byrons Werke In sechs Bänden" translated by Otto Gildemeister, 3rd Volume, Fifth Edition, Berlin 1903 (pages 134-135).[5]

Selected filmography
Year Title Role Director Notes
1991 Das serbische Mädchen Hans Peter Sehr
1992 Rising to the Bait Funke Vadim Glowna
1995 Brother of Sleep Martin Joseph Vilsmaier
1996 Alles nur Tarnung Harry Butzbach Peter Zingler
Samson and Delilah Prince Sidqa Nicolas Roeg TV film
1997 Comedian Harmonists Robert Biberti Joseph Vilsmaier
1999 Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod Hans Wieck Rolf Schübel
Der Einstein des Sex Adolf Brand Rosa von Praunheim
2001 Sass Franz Sass Carlo Rola
2006 Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude Emanuel Goldfarb Oliver Hirschbiegel
2010 Habermann Koslowski Juraj Herz
2012 Das Kind Andreas Borchert Zsolt Bács

Awards
  • 1997 Bavarian Film Award, Special Prize[6]
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References
  1. . Westdeutsche Zeitung. 1 March 2017 https://www.wz.de/nrw/duesseldorf/ben-beckers-oma-betrieb-ein-altstadt-lokal_aid-27215495. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. PattiSmith0 (13 April 2008). "Schiller & Ben Becker - Nacht" – via YouTube.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2010-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Byron, Lord. "Gedicht "Die Seele"". www.karo.b-hoffmann.de.
  5. "Frage.de - dein Frageportal". www.satsangforum.de.
  6. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). 25 March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2009.

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