Ben Becker

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Ben Becker at the Berlinale 2017
Ben Becker ( Life Ball 2014)

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

Life

Becker is the son of the actress Monika Hansen and the actor Rolf Becker . He has a sister, the actress and singer Meret Becker . The actor Otto Sander was his stepfather. His grandmother was the comedian Claire Schlichting , his uncle the comedian Jonny Buchardt .

Becker, who now lives in Berlin, already appeared in radio plays as a child and took on small film roles. He worked as a stage worker at the Berlin Schaubühne and received acting lessons in Bremen from 1985 to 1987 . Then he got his first engagement at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg. He then went to the Staatstheater Stuttgart , where he played Ferdinand in Schiller's Cabal and Love in 1991/92 , then to the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , while in 1993/94 he acted in the role of Tybalt in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

Becker first caught on in the cinema in 1991 in the road movie The Serbian Girl . In it he embodied the arrogant German friend of the pregnant Serbian heroine. Ben Becker wrote and directed the play Sid & Nancy about the Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in 1995 , with his sister Meret taking on the role of the manic Nancy Spungen in the tragic love story . The theater production was extremely chaotic, had to be interrupted several times and was on the brink several times until it could finally be performed in the then scene pub Ex'n'Pop . The rehearsals were accompanied with the camera by the director Uli M Schueppel , who turned the material into the 1996 documentary Sid & Nancy / Ex & Pop .

In the same year Ben Becker took on the role of Peter, who fell in love with the protagonist, in Joseph Vilsmaier's film Schlafes Bruder . In the biography Comedian Harmonists (1997) he played the singer Robert Biberti . In the film Der Einstein des Sex (1999) by Rosa von Praunheim he plays together with his mother Monika Hansen , his sister Meret Becker and stepfather Otto Sander .

Meanwhile, Becker turned back to the stage. One of his theater roles in 1999 was the main role in the dramatization of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin.

In 2000 he starred in the film Planet Alex , which is about young people and their stories around Berlin's Alexanderplatz. Uli M Schueppel again directed .

At the Hamburger Kammerspiele in 2001, Becker portrayed a child murderer in Neil LaBute's Bash: Pieces of the Last Days , who sits alone on a chair and tells about his crime. This piece was directed by Peter Zadek . Spiegel Online called the production “terribly good” at the time.

In 2005 he starred in the art trash film Santos - Heroic Deeds Nobody Needs , in which his friend and cameraman Peppi Streich filmed him performing bizarre actions in a wrestler costume on the streets and pubs of Berlin. Again Uli M Schueppel directed. In 2006 he starred in the theatrical version of the monologue piece A very ordinary Jew .

Ben Becker reads from the Bible ( Katholikentag 2008 in Osnabrück).

A series of readings was scheduled for October 2008 in which Ben Becker read from the Bible , musically accompanied by the Zero Tolerance Band and the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg under the direction of the conductor Peter Christian Feigel , after the program had premiered a year earlier in the Berlin Tempodrom would have. In addition to reciting Old and New Testament texts, Becker performed songs by Johnny Cash , Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton , as well as classical works such as by Gustav Mahler . There is a double CD audio book for this performance The Bible - A spoken symphony .

In 2009 Becker played and spoke the narrator in the arena theater production Ben Hur Live in German-speaking countries. From 2009 to 2012. Becker was at the Salzburg Festival to death in everyone .

Becker's autobiography Na und, ich tanze was published in autumn 2011 .

In 2012 Becker appeared in the concert productions One Long Day, Journey into the Night and Den See in Hamburg's St. Pauli Theater and interpreted various songs that were written by him and his musical director, the composer Yoyo Röhm. He also toured with Röhm in 2014 with his literary performance The Eternal Fountain , which included a selection of German poetry he had made.

In 2013 he was seen at the side of his sister Meret Becker in the fairy tale film The Little Mermaid in the role of the sea king.

He and his wife, whom he married in 2012 after 14 years of relationship, have a daughter named Lilith (* 2000) and lives in Berlin.

other activities

Like his sister Meret, Ben Becker is also active as a musician. In 1997 the record Und Lautlos Fliegt Der Kopf Weg was released, followed in 2001 by Wir heben . Becker recorded both albums with the Zero Tolerance Band (Ulrik Spies and Jacki Engelken). Becker can also be heard as a singer on the CD Große Freiheit: Songs & Stories from Sankt Pauli from 2005.

In 2000, Becker and Dimitri Hegemann opened the “Trompete” pub on Lützowplatz in Berlin-Tiergarten . In the 2000s , Ben Becker was an advertising medium for the Eichbaum breweries .

Becker published four children's books - each with the main character Bruno and illustrated by Annette Swoboda: Bruno - the boy with the green hair , Bruno's Christmas , stories about Bruno with the green hair and Bruno on the long journey .

In June 2014 Becker appeared as the announcer at the comeback concert of the German rock band Böhse Onkelz at the Hockenheimring . This announcement, during which Becker roared into the microphone for three and a half minutes, was rated by the press as "embarrassment" or at least as "obscure".

Controversy over the Hells Angels

Becker says he sympathizes with the Hells Angels . He sang a Hells Angels song and was the speaker in a video message published by the club. In his biography he describes her “aloofness and danger”, which for him has a “beauty”. He is not interested in "what else they supposedly do". In 2011 he played a leading role in the Hells Angels film 81 - The Other World , "with his positive statements about the Hells Angels, he virtually leads through the film".

Awards

Filmography

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Radio plays

  • 1978: George Tabori : The 25th Hour , Director: George Tabori (RIAS Berlin)
  • 2018: Thanks for nothing (biography of the Böhsen Onkelz)

Discography

  • 1997: And the head flies silently (together with Ulrik Spies and Jacki Engelken under the name Ben Becker & The Zero Tolerance Band ) (the song Brian Jones appeared on several releases)
  • 1999: Soundtrack "Gloomy Sunday"; Song: "The Song of Sad Sunday"
  • 2000: Cooperation with Xavier Naidoo on the sampler Rilke project , which underlines the work of the great German poet with music.
  • 2001: Soundtrack Woman 2 is looking for a happy ending (song "Engel wie wir")
  • 2001: We take off
  • 2001: Fever - Diary of a Leper Becker reads Kinski poems (music: Alexander Hacke)
  • 2005: Ben Becker speaks Jack London " The Sea Wolf "
  • 2005: Great Freedom: Songs & Stories from St. Pauli
  • 2006: Bertolt Brecht presented by Ben Becker (series "Traces: People who move us"; 9)
  • 2006: Bertolt Brecht: Excerpts from the work journal 1948–1954 ; read by Ben Becker
  • 2007: Tour and audio book for Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • 2007: The Bible - A spoken symphony (with the Zero Tolerance Band and the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg )
  • 2008: Sehnsucht von Schiller / Christopher von Deylen (songs "Nacht" and "Vor der Zeit")
  • 2010: Bruno - The boy with the green hair and Bruno's Christmas ... and Halali (with Ben Becker as narrator and his daughter Lilith Maria Dörthe Becker as Bruno)
  • 2013: Blood Brothers: A Berlin clique novel by Ernst Haffner
  • 2015: Gute Nacht, Bruno (The Boy with Green Hair) and Dream Song appeared on Various Artists - Gute Nacht Sterne (CD). Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH.

literature

Works

“Bruno” children's books with illustrations by Annette Swoboda

Web links

Commons : Ben Becker  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. see agency website
  2. Spectacle: Crazy or Brain Dead. In: Der Spiegel , August 7, 1995.
  3. Britta Heidemann: Peter "Zadeks Bash": Greek cruel. In: Der Spiegel, May 7, 2001.
  4. "Best of Bibel" with Ben Becker. In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 11, 2007.
  5. benhurlive.de
  6. The Last Everyman: Ben Becker bursts into tears. In: salzburg24.at, August 31, 2012, accessed on June 7, 2013.
  7. Jasper Fabian Wenzel: "Dude, that's me": An evening with Ben Becker in the Berliner Ensemble. In: Die Welt , October 26, 2011.
  8. Annabel Trautwein: Tour start: Ben Becker and the abysses of feelings. In: Die Welt , May 1, 2012.
  9. benbecker.de, information from his agency ( memento from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), PDF, 1.1 MB, accessed on June 19, 2016.
  10. ^ Theaterhaus Stuttgart: "Ben Becker - The Eternal Fountain". In: www.theaterhaus.com, accessed on January 8, 2014.
  11. Little Mermaid is getting married in Wörlitz. In: mz-web.de, December 23, 2013.
  12. ^ Actor Ben Becker got married. In: www.t-online.de , September 4, 2012, accessed on February 26, 2016.
  13. This is how the Böhse Onkelz rocked the Hockenheimring. In: Picture , June 21, 2014.
  14. Ben Becker embarrasses himself as the announcer of the Onkelz. In: Rolling Stone .
  15. Ben Becker's strange Unkelz announcement. In: image.
  16. Embarrassing appearance. In: Musikexpress .
  17. Downplaying: media strategy of the Hells Angels NDR.de - television… July 1, 2012, archived from the original on July 1, 2012 ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 (the video itself is no longer available).
  18. 45 min - The new power of rockers. Archived by NDR on YouTube (part 2, from 7:00 a.m.), broadcast on October 10, 2011.
  19. Thomas Hirschbiegel: TV star courted the hell angels: Ben Becker and the Hells Angels. In: Hamburger Morgenpost , April 14, 2011.
  20. Ben Becker: Advertisement for Hells Angels film. In: BZ , April 15, 2011.
  21. A Mindpirates / Trigger Happy / Studio Babelsberg co-production: Seven Deaths Of A Bird - The official website. In: www.meretsevendeathsofabird.com, accessed September 18, 2014.
  22. Our stars: Markus Lanz. In: Gute Nacht Sterne - Official Website , February 16, 2015.