Gerhard Becker (actor)

Walter Jupé (left) and Gerhard Becker in a production of Goethe's Faust , 1948

Gerhard Becker (born May 17, 1915 in Stuttgart ; † March 10, 1984 in Cologne ) was a German actor and radio play speaker .

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As an actor, Becker was part of the first post-war cast at the Weimar National Theater ; Goethe's Faust was opened for reopening on August 28, 1948 . A tragedy performed with Gerhard Becker as Faust and Walter Jupé as Famulus Wagner. In 1950 he played Philinte in Molières Der misanthrope ; 1955 in Aldous Huxley's The Smile of the Gioconda , directed by Erich Fritz Brücklmeier at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. He also appeared in George Tabori's The Cannibals . As a film actor, Becker was seen in the television productions Inspector Hornleigh intervenes ... (1961) , The Scarf by Francis Durbridge (1962) and Daphne Laureola (1962, directed by Heinz Wilhelm Schwarz ). His main activities included his work as a radio play speaker, mainly at NWDR Cologne and, from 1956, its legal successor at WDR . The ARD radio play database lists over 300 records in which he is listed as a contributor.

↑ Walter Jupé portrait
↑ Die Weltbühne , Volume 5, Part 1. 1950, p. 95
^ Klaus Joachim Lemmer: German actors of the present . Rembrandt Verlag, 1955
↑ Wilhelm Unger: "What is that a sign for?": Selection from published and unpublished works by the critic and author. Cologne: DuMont, 1984

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	March 10, 1984
Place of death	Cologne