Christian Becher

Christian Joachim Becher (born July 1, 1943 in Limbach ; † January 24, 2013 in Leipzig ) was a German cabaret artist , director and author .

Life

The son of a yarn factory worker and a curtain seamstress was already involved in church amateur plays in his youth. After graduating from high school, he studied economics at the Leipzig Commercial College .

As a student he founded his first, albeit short-lived, cabaret. In addition, Becher played on the student stage of what was then Karl Marx University . There he met Jürgen Hart , Bernd-Lutz Lange and Gunter Böhnke , and in 1966 he joined the student cabaret " academixer " they founded . Even after the conversion of the student cabaret into a professional theater in 1977, Becher remained a member. In 1997 he designed his first solo program with “game over”. Becher was not only active as a cabaret artist, but also as a director both in-house and at other cabarets and theaters. From 2001 to 2006 he was the artistic director of Academixer.

His tombstone, designed by the Leipzig sculptor Klaus Schwabe , is on the Leipzig South Cemetery

In 2010 he received the “Leipziger Löwenzahn” laugh fair festival prize for his life's work.

In addition to his work as a cabaret artist, Becher continued to work as an actor and director for the university's student theater (Poetisches Theater) until 1989. In 1977 he staged a Ringelnatz evening in the Beyerhaus, his first own program, which was re-enacted on many GDR stages. Above all, he staged plays from the absurd theater that was frowned upon in the GDR , such as " Waiting for Godot " by Samuel Beckett , "The woman to throw away " by Dario Fo or " We got away again " by Thornton Wilder .

Christian Becher, who was last seriously ill, died on January 24, 2013 in Leipzig as a result of an infection. He was buried in the Leipzig South Cemetery in the neighborhood of Jürgen Hart and Lene Voigt .

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SURNAME	Becher, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Becher, Christian Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cabaret artist, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Limbach
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 2013
Place of death	Leipzig